The oil companies aren’t charging us based on their costs, they’re charging us what they can get away with. They had record profits last year and they’re going to set new records after ****** us this go round. It has nothing to do with US oil production either. The oil company execs were recently taped stating they wanted prices to stay high so they won’t increase US production, they want their shareholders to bank as much as possible. Same goes with E85, it’s the same money game. I bet you don’t know we actually produce more oil than we consume. It’s mostly different than our refineries are set up for though so we export that and import the stuff they can refine. It’s all a global game they play. And we consumers suffer.