Price gouging...

Gas prices have once again gotten insanely high...Never were really all that cheap for the last year or so, but they were at least coming down...With all of the speculation of Hurricane Ike, plus the media playing into the whole mind game which caused people to panic, gas prices have gone up again...waaaay up! In my area, they went up almost a $1.70 for regular within 24 hours! Crazy! What's even weirder is the fact that oil is still just barely $100 a barrel...Doesn't make since, but it totally seems like the oil companies and private gas station owners are taking full advantage of this situation: