By the end of the year it looks like we will go back up to about 2.50 per gallon and hold at that amount. In my personal opinion I think they found an excuse to test the waters and pushed it up as high as possible. They then noticed that it was to high for the average joe and are now lowering it down as the calm before the storm. Basically they found out how much they can charge, lower it back down a tad as to act like they are "helping" us and soon we will see the increase to a level that seemed to be acceptable to the american public.