[the invisib1e hand]

because supply has beeen reduced...simple supply and demand....now if entitlement mentaility american would drive a bit less, prices would quickly fall.

Holy smokes, another freakin troll?

Entitlement mentality american? wtf does this mean? first, if we wish to pay the price, that's our prerogative. you benefit from a free market in crude oil as much as anyone else, regardless of what you drive, and in spite of this snivelling, self rightous rant of yours. Second, there's a saying: love it or leave it.

[atlanta67]

entitlement mentality means that americans got so use to cheap gasoline in the 1980s and 1990s they think it is their god given right to drive an SUV and fill it up with gasoline that costs less than $1.50.

I love to ask a poll question:

would you give up cheap gasoline or social security?

[atlanta67]

""a free market in crude oil as much as anyone else, regardless of what you drive, and in spite of this snivelling, self rightous rant of yours. Second, there's a saying: love it or leave it.""

i would agree except for something called an externality. Drivers of gas guzzelers are imposing a cost on the rest of society.