Fucking gas prices.....

I just found out the reason for the most recent jump in gas prices. Refineries are in the midst of switching from MTBE to ethanol additives in gasoline. Ethanol's cleaner but much more expensive to transport. What I don't get is why are we in Illinois getting screwed? We're surrounded by cornfields - the primary source for ethanol. It's like when I was a vegetarian and had to go to a kosher meat restaurant with my friends. Kosher meat is expensive, so naturally, the prices at such an establishment is higher than expected. My problem was that the vegetarian meals were marked up just as much as the meat stuff. Almost $10 for vegetable lo mein? Are you fucking kidding me? $2.92/gallon, are you fucking kidding me? I bitch and moan as unemployment looms in the horizon.....