fear it could be a long time before things get to, well, where they were before. gerri willis from the fox business network with us. we saw a bit of a spike in oil prices today. i would call it a spike. they went up $26 a barrel. light sveda crude to 132.23 cents. $100 important benchmark for oil prices. gas is going up as well, 3.55 a gallon. 3.16 a gallon was the price just last month. americans are trying to deal with that three quarters of americans saying in a poll they are going to curb their spending because of rising gas prices. shepard: usually that happens about $4 a gallon. that s what history tell us. happening already. shepard: how much of this is about what has already happened and how much is it about fears this will spread to nation nations that spread more oil than libya. about fear of tomorrow and saudi arabia. a big area for concern. they are really in a fight with iran over who is going to lead that region. so, big question is, can oil and