Businesses are managing to shrug off the latest increases in oil prices.

There's not a lot we can do about the big oil companies, refineries and pipelines,

They (oil companies) have become financial engineers rather than petroleum engineers. I'd like to see them show a little more effort in the development side internally than they have lately.

Seasonal factors, combined with additional production expected by OPEC, should bring oil prices back down to the mid-20 range by mid-summer.

The inventory build was two-to-three times greater than expected, and oil prices are backing off.

Crude oil prices are the major determinant of gasoline prices.