Higher gasoline prices are caused by the shortage of oil.
The less oil we have, the higher the price at the pump.
There are a lot of folks that can't understand how we ran
out of oil here in the United States. Well, here's the
answer: It's simple... nobody bothered to check the oil.
We didn't know we were getting low!
The reason for that is obviously geographical -- all the
oil is in Texas and Oklahoma, and all the dipsticks are
in Washington, D.C.!!!