Blame the wildly unregulated speculation market that drives up the prices for oil futures based on the continuation of a falling dollar, the Iraq War (its impact on oil prices, and its relationship to the declining dollar) and the looming threat of a war with Iran which would further impact oil prices!

It isn't so much a gasoline is going up but the dollar we buy it with that is going down; and the fear of an Israeli-U.S. attack on Iran increasing current demand in order to build stocks against disruption more than any oil company greed or OPEC greed (not that they aren't that greedy, mind you, hence the war). Our demand hasn't changed that much, so market forces DO NOT APPLY.