Why are gasoline prices at the pump as high as I have ever seen them?

Question

...Even though the price of crude oil is as low as it has been in more than 7 weeks.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_bi_ge/oil_prices

I get the "oil in the underground tanks" thing were gasoline was purchased at a given price and must be sold occordingly, but it never works that way when crude goes up. The pump prices rises the very day crude price jumps are announced.

Answer 1

they have dropped 45 cents a gallon here and going down daily

Answer 2

because the government wants more money for themselves so the keep on saying that we are running out of fossil fuels