WTF is with Gas Prices?

I paid $3.17 a gallon when I filled up the minivan on Sunday. Holy crap, that's a lot of money. Apparently, the Washington State Attorney General also thinks so too, and is launching an investigation. It's going to take a while, of course, and I assume we will be breaking some state records along the way. Meanwhile, the oil companies will probably report another quarter of record profits.