Madmex you are wrong, tourism is still high and people are still wasting gas by making trips they don't need to. I see it everywhere, the roads are packed during non rush hours even in this small town, they can't all be going to work. It does no good for you to blame others for the high prices unless it is the oil companies you are blaming. Do you really believe the administration can just force the oil companies to reduce the price of their product. We live in a free enterprise system and if the government were to set prices then we would have a dictatorship and I know you don't want that. Since we live in a consumer based society we have more control over prices than you or anyone else wants to admit. If we don't buy something it has a price reduction or it gets taken off the market. Manufacturers can't afford to produce somethinng that does not sell. We do not have to stop doing things which need fuel, we just need to make certain we actually need to do it. If we go somewhere simply for the pleasure of it then we don't need to do it. We don't have to do this long, we just have to do it until the prices come down to where we like it. Then we can start back and show the oil companies what the price is we like. It will work, the stockholders want their dividends and when the companies don't make the prifit they don't get their dividends so the stockholders complain and the companies do something about it.