You can't blame the Arabs on this one. It's the great American oil companies that are really fuckin' us. The Saudis don't understand why oil in America is up 70 dollars a barrel. Any excuse, American oil companies jack up the price. Shit, when the space shuttle blew up, they upped the prices.
I was listening to talk radio last night at work and they had some big wig accountant that worked for a firm that delt with some major oil companies. He said that the cost of refining oil into gas only went up .09 for the oil companies due to Katrina, but at the pump it went up .50+. He said also that back in the 90's, Standard Oil was broken up because it was a monopoly. Well all these companies have been slowly merging back together. I think he said there are now 4 major oil companies. When one ups it's price, they all up it. They are not competing, instead they follow one another. One more thing, America has a limited number of refineries and they run at 94% at all times. When one has a fire or mishap that disrupts production and price goes up. Any excuse, America's great oil companies love to bend the American public and put it in their keester.