before you open your mouth. Avg. gas prices were at $1.48 in 2002 ( 8yrs. ago ) and increased to $1.59 the following year. Not exactly going thru the roof there now, is it? So what then is your point? Because it was in 2006 when the Dumbocrats took control of the House and Senate that gas prices really took a leap. And also remember that during Jimmy Carter's 4 years of screwing up this country it went from well under $2.00 a gallon to $3.40 by March 1981. Then, by that time The Great Ronald Reagan had taken office and brought it down and many other out of control prices to a level we all enjoyed up to 2006.