higher gas prices

Is it because of vacations?  Or maybe it's all the talk of unrest in the Middle East.  Whatever the reason, I think they give us a heads up about gas prices that are  happening 3 months in the future to prepare us to pay. Better save your income tax return for the pump instead of a vacation...

What is this news about the subsidy ending?  Usually we see gas prices rising because of something has has happened in the gulf or because the price of a barrel of oil has risen.  This time, it's something different.  This gas hike is happening because congress declined to renew a 30 year old federal subsidy for ethanol...