Remember that ALL costs are passed along to the final purchaser (AKA the consumer).
We are in a consumptive economic system.
Cut consumption and cut prices will follow.
I truly sympathize with the gas retailers of America when this happens..

Think about this
Gas is like heroin,
You have to have it, to get more of it.
You have to have fuel to get to the dealer to get more of fuel.

Didn't our Prezident say that we are addicted to it?

By the way, I used about three gallons in the pressure washer this week, and use the bus and trolley and my feet to move about town.