billings, montana, the best deal in the country, on average $3.18. you cannot talk about gas without this, without talking about oil. i ve hauled out my barrel for two at the top. today 42 gallons of west texas intermediate, which is the crude oil that we buy is selling for more than $100. you can see over the course of the last month or so the increase in the price of oil. it s gone up more than 19% in one month. there s no particular mathing ick to understanding oil prices. thef go up for two reasons demand and speculation. the entire world produces about 84 million barrels of oil per day. guess what? we use all of it. here in the united states, in fact, we re only 5% of the population of the world lives we use 25% of the oil that the world produces every day. in fact, 10% of that 84 million barrels that the world produces and uses every day, 10% of the oil consumed in the world, is