[Beef]

Gas prices are almost at an all time high and I for one have yet to figure out for sure why.

At close today (5/3), Oil was trading at just over $63 a barrel which is down $13+ dollars from where it was a year ago, yet gas prices are the same. I have been reading the Wall Street Journal and other publications yet not too much talk about it. I believe that it has to do with refineries having problems not being able to produce enough because demand is so high.

So as Americans, have we accepted $3 gas as a way of life? Realistically, this is still a low price compared to western Europe, but do we have to accept it? Demand in America has not slowed even with the increase in gas. Somehow this might get placed on Bush and the Republican party like it has in the past, but as a non-election year, where are all the democrats in congress complaining and trying to protect their people? Did they focus so much on it last year just because they wanted to be elected and now that they have, just forgotten all about it?

With the oil price, gas should not be as high as it is.