Diesel is $4.11 here, reg gas $3.28. What is driving fuel costs up is not supply and demand. It is the devaluing of the dollar that is doing it. Combine flooding the money supply (MP 3) by the Federal Reserve (a private banking group) and lowering interest rates (devalues the dollar further), you can expect to see these costs go through the roof. Give it 6 months or so. To offset these higher costs to run government, the government will raise taxes to pay for them. This is what precipitated a prolonged Great Depression. Raising taxes and taking income from the people is the exact opposite thing to do.