There is a really interesting graph called, "Gas Buddy.com" and it shows gasoline pump prices.

To the left is a graph about CRUDE oil prices from 2000 to 2006.  (click here)  The prices in the USA are in that graph.  We really have to disucss this mess because of the ads of the Plutocracy which has started the Presidential races of 2012 already?

If one cares to the link is at the title to this entry.

According to Gas Buddy on July 5, 2005 the pump price of gasoline was about $2.20 per gallon.

By January of 2008 it was about $2.90 per gallon, the highest during the Bush/Cheney years hit $4.12 by June 1, 2008.  I remember that because at the time California was introducing a new GREEN diesel fuel to their trucking industry at a cost of $3.00 per gallon. 

The price then fell to a low during the 2008 elections of $1.65 or so.  That was to help cushion the blow of the global economic collapse for the hope that McCain and Palin would win that election.  It didn't happen.