They don?t want to show the real high price. They take the prices off the pumps so that people don't know what the price is before they get into the station.

Prices are much firmer in the high-end product arena than in the moderate price discount arena.

It's the metal price that's clearly driving it. To some extent, costs are better, but metal prices are the game for an aluminum company.

Shell is profiting from the current high oil prices, but we are all paying the price. Oil companies must be forced to face up to their wider responsibilities - on climate change, on the environment and on human rights.

The price increases are at levels that are catastrophic for most people. And I can't predict that prices are going to go down. I wish I could.

Prices are high, but without those price increases we would not have seen the 20 percent decrease in industrial gas demand that has occurred over the past five years. One by one, industrial gas users are either shutting down or switching to substitute fuels.