I know how we love to complain, but the fact is we are spoiled here in the USA, we have the lowest gas prices in the world and we always have. Go to Europe or even the Great White North and compare...our prices have historically always been lower. If you want to blame someone, blame ourselves; We are ruled by 'Tree Huggers' who won't let us drill in Alaska, won't let us drill off the coast (meanwhile Cuba has no qualms about drilling only 40 miles off the Florida coast and taking the oil that WE should have), won't let us build new refineries (we have not built a single one in almost 50 years: "Not in my back yard"), wont let us use nuclear power, won't let us use wind power (Ted Kennedy says it will ruin the view at Martha's vineyard), and on and on...meanwhile these socialist-commie a-holes brain wash us with the same old 'anti-capitalist' b/s and blame the oil compamies. The fact is there have been over 50 government and private investigations over the years on the 'price-gouging' assertions and it have never been substantiated. Bottom line: want lower prices? Then drill, drill, and drill again! And a few new refineries would help too...OK I'm done ranting!
One more thing; remember the last time we tried to limit oil companies profits (the Windfall-Profit Tax)? We got rationing, odd/even only days to buy, long lines, etc. Do you really want that again?