With Prius top seller in California and lots of other higher Mpg vehicles out there, why is gasoline so high in price?
Corporate oligarchy;

Corporate oligarchy is a form of power, governmental or operational, where such power effectively rests with a small, elite group of inside individuals, sometimes from a small group of educational institutions, or influential economic entities or devices, such as banks, commercial entities, lobbyists that act in complicity with, or at the whim of the oligarchy, often with little or no regard for constitutionally protected prerogative.

Today’s multinational corporations function as corporate oligarchies with influence over democratically elected officials.

Richard: Thank you. This was corrected in the text.

Domestic production is up; the ponied up CPI is quite low; interest rates low; doomers full employment in mini-marts!