How long is the Gas and Oil issue going to hurt?

Although I have no data to validate my statements, I am protected by the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

First, the oil companies that supply us, the general public are gouging us, the American people. Oil company’s profits are soaring out of control. We pay for it at the pump and have started paying the price of home heating and all other consumables. Is this against the law, it is if the activity fits within the criteria established by the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has deemed three types of conduct so lacking in economic justification as to be "per se" illegal. The "per se" violations include price fixing, bid rigging, and market allocation schemes, and are generally prosecuted criminally by the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice.

In order to validate a claim of price fixing, we can all go down to the corner gas station and see that the price of gas goes up and up. Not just at your own community gas station, but gas stations around the country. Take us back to the seventies when supplies were artificially lessened to force the increase in gas prices. This is a revisit of the same practices and policies.

Do we see market allocation schemes, Enron did it, are the gas companies doing the same? The news broadcasts are all abuzz about natural disasters that limit the amount of refined gas based on a specific geographic area, what is happening to the rest of the gas refineries?%