Without getting this into a political argument I suspect we are seeing high prices across the board due to the idiots we have placed in office.

First, our wizards have managed to cause the dollar to lose value so we may not actually be seeing $4.00 diesel, but $3.00 diesel if we had as much value in the dollar as we had 2 or three years ago. So part of the higher costs are due to the weaker dollar. Maybe they need to stop printing money and let the people that got in over their heads lose their houses.

Then to exacerbate the problem the tree hugging weenies have decided ethanol is the path to environmental purity. So we spend megabucks to create a gallon of fuel that costs as much as or more than petroleum fuel, and which requires abundant amounts of corn (for example) to produce. And that fuel has less energy content so more is required. So instead of planting other crops farmers plant corn, with less going to feed cattle driving up prices of produce across the board due to the ripple effect.

You can blame the fuel for higher prices, but the price of fuel is the symptom, not the disease.

Heading out to burn some of that in a little bit. Maybe there will be less traffic because the American public has said they cannot pay the cost of fuel. Yeah right....there will be as many on the road as before.