It was due to the "speculators"
in the oil market allowing them their last big feast on the American public before they are reigned in. Face it, if anything like this is tried again, under Obama's administration they will be quickly put under the microscope and stopped cold in their tracks.
Bush didn't have the guts to do it. His cronies were in on the feast.
This administration has been an economic free-for-all for the good ole boys.
No wonder America is collapsing around our feet.