I donno, i think england is somewhere close to norway... they have sooo many taxes on gas and stuff... im not sure what it is exactly, so i cant really argue, but i know its very very high even for europe. Hurricane katrina didnt do didily squat for the day or next day it happened. The gas stations raising gas prices the day after the storm was BS. And i wont even go into whats goin on in georga.... 6$ a gallon... And plus, the percentage of oil we get from the gulf is very very small. We get most our oil from Canada, then comes venezuala (used to, stopped all export to us or something recently) and the middle east (Saudi Arabia).