The point i'm trying to make is that the price of transport gas is largely unaffected by demand from drivers.
The price is largely affected by the forward and derivative markets - which are largely run by the trading desks at companies like Shell or BP or Suncor and the larger banks. So they can manipulate prices by moving positions in these financial commodity markets - and they do. And there is very little reporting or transparency requirements on these trading desks.
These dark commodity markets were pretty much brought into existence by the Bush administration in the Enron era - at the request of you know who. Its why gas spiked in the first decade of the 21st century.
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