Oil Closes at $100 per barrel...It's a new record!

Hmm..

With BP, Exxon-Mobil, and Shell reporting record profits, the Tax Foundation reminds us in its latest Fiscal Fact that the biggest beneficiaries of gasoline sales are federal and state governments, not the oil industry:
link:
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2005/10/gas_taxes_excee.html

I'm beginning to feel like this all really IS a conspiracy :D