Ever try to calculate how much of that price is tax (at every level of production and distribution, besides the direct tax), and all of the idiotic regulations and legal barriers that eliminate sources and make production difficult to impossible? How long was it again since any new refineries were built? If the price they got for the actual product was that high, you'd think someone would enter the market... But nobody is allowed to do that, of course.
I think it's some sort of miracle we have any access to gasoline at all.