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Kenneth Medlock: The biggest driver behind the increase in price is the price of crude oil. We use crude oil to refine gasoline as well as a number of other petroleum products, and what we’ve seen over the past, well, 4 to 5 years is an unprecedented increase in the price of crude, and that, in turn, has caused gasoline prices to rise.
