>> dana: crude oil prices keep rising and that's driving up gas prices across the country ahead of the busy summer travel season. fox business's network jeff flock is in lamont, illinois. jeff, how high are gas prices now? >> reporter: they're getting high. they're high and they're getting higher, dana. take a look at that refinery behind me. making gas as fast as they can. gas is now $2.74 a gallon on average in this country. that's $0.30 more than it was a year ago, but it's risen $0.20 just in the last month. we found a gas station in california just on the edge of the mojave desert that's charging $5.29 a gallon of regular gas. getting a little desperate as they're about to head through the desert. what's causing all of this? in some sense it's a perfect storm of factors.