Do Gas Prices Rise For "No Reason"?

A woman was interviewed on the news last week regarding the ever increasing gas prices. "Prices rise for no reason," she said. No, I thought, there is a reason...GREED. Furthermore, now that everyone is concerned about what burning hydrocarbons is doing to the air, there may soon be a reduction in demand which will hurt the oil producers, and governments which rely so highly on the energy tax revenues. So everyone in the industry, I theorize, is milking us as much as we can tolerate until such time that prices are so high many turn to alternative energy sources and hybrid cars. Hybrid hydrogen cars may be the best bet in the long run. A little bit of hydrogen to power the car's electrical generator. The generator, in combination with solar panels on the car's surface, could then be used to convert some of the water (the only byproduct of hydrogen combustion) back into hydrogen. It's not quite the perpetual motion machine but is darn close. We should be using our hydro generated electricity to produce hydrogen and get the ball rolling on phasing out the use of petrochemicals for powering our vehicles.