[Protagoras]

Not even close to true. In real, inflation adjusted dollars, it isn't even close.

[kenth]

Yeah, it'd be what, six bucks a gallon or so? So it's still cheap considering that. I don't want to consider it though when I'm paying almost twice as much to get to work.

Oldeconomybuyer: If these were normal seasonal spikes, the prices wouldn't be alarming to most people as we would gradually have gotten used to them. The prices are abnormally high for this time of year.