It goes up a lot faster than it goes down:

It is truly amazing to watch fuel prices rise to unprecedented price levels, this can only hurt the economy,and the driving public in general, the only backlash the driving public has it going back at the purchase level and boycotting the companies that they purchase from, but you wont ever reach them at that level, you might hurt the independent that purchases and sells his product, but the big guys are isolated behind the government, and wall street,and all the fat cats that are posting these never before seen , obsecene profits, it hits the middle class right in the pocket book , which is apparently ok,no one including the government is doing anything to stop it, the government just makes a bigger slice of the pie when the price goes up, even if they do nothing,which so far they have been really good at.
But when you have as much lobby money in the right places,and most of the companies have their hands in the coat pocket of most of the politicans it is hard to tell who still works for the US tax payer and who works for the oil companies.Granted , the driving public has some of the fault, because we still refuse to demand higher fuel standards of the automakers , if you must drive the tanks still available, 4 door pickups with dragster engines in them, and hummers,and the huge boats that are still available,new from the automakers, if you are gonna dance , you will have to pay the fiddler,and they all know that.
It amazes me, that so much new technology is available and out there, engines that run on water, but when these things come to light, there is usually a buy out and that technology disappears about as quick as it was brought to light, I do know this company manufactures welding plants that run on water they are on the market, and the inventor has a fleet of cars that are converted to run on water, so why istn that technology currently available for the american public, we have plenty of water, and it wont break the american dream,we could become fuel independent over night, but you think any one will allow that to happen, not likely, what i dont understand is why the public doesnt demand to know more and why it isnt being investigated on a scale of some of the current diseases that the government funds yearly.

Look at hydrogen,another very viable source of independence, but who owns all the filling infrastructure, most likely the oil companies do,they have all the money,and that is what this is all about, not fuel or oil,it is power and money.
Take a look at who purchases all the wind power as soon as it is up and operational, surprise surprise, you say it is oil companies,well they purchased ours with in three weeks of the first blades turning in the wind.
Are you beginning to see a pattern here, or is it hard to see the forest for all the trees, It takes money to make money,that is why you never see the guys that really supply drugs, they aren't the ones in the cars on the interstates or trucks that get thru,they dont have to do the grunt work,same in this business, the guys in the direct firing line isn't the suppliers of the product, it is at the grunt level or convenience stores or managers of franchises,that can only do what the edicts allow coming down the chain of command,and do you seriously think you can get to the fat cats driving the prices , used to be supply and demand,now it is all controlled by wall street,that is one of the reasons you never hear any thing from opec, they dont have to do a thing, cause our own greed at the wall street level is gonna make those folks even more wealthy than they allready are.
The latest round of excuses comes at the refinery level, and i remember reading several years ago, we had all the capacity we needed, but you let one place stumble,or even grunt real hard and the price can also jump,as it has this week,you could see it comeing as the prices was jumping up and down last week in anticipation of the allready known coming surge in prices, makes me think the fix was all ready in the system, as i watched prices jump up 15 cents one day and back down the next,and it yo yoed several times last week like they were testing the water , sure makes onewonder
enough of this rant, have a good night and a better weekend, and get ready for the next surge, for you know is will come , just a matter of time, the media all ready hyped for the companies, so 4.00 a gallon gas is nearly a done deal, where is all the output and production that i keep hearing we are finding, who gets that ,what about the alaskan pipeline,where does all that production go,andwhat about all the wells we capped in oklahoma and kansas in the 60's when it was cheaper to bring in oil from the gulf, it has still got to be there , cause it probably hasn't been touched since they capped it, think about it