gas prices and other irritating stuff

I have heard all the rumors, gas prices five dollars a gallon and higher, rationing, yadda yadda yadda. I bought gas the other day in a rural farm metropolis for 2.52, and it made me think. The normal summer price hike hasn't happened, and oil is spewing into the gulf at an alarming rate, both of which should send gas prices soaring, but hasn't, why?
Any time a corporate giant misses a perfect opportunity to make a larger profit, I get skeptical. Just the mear mention of a hurricane hitting an oil processing plant was enough to send prices three to four dollars higher, if only temporarily. That temporary hike was enough to net millions in profits. So, why now, with the perfect excuse polluting the gulf, have not the oil companies raised prices to the panic level? Are they sending donations to BP, and in sympathy chosen to mimic them? Is there a BP benevelant society that oil companies are joining now? Sorry, my smart ass is showing. But then by all accounts, I am a fifth generation smart ass. The generations before me all had terminal smart ass. Both my daughters have it, my grandchildren have it.
Its genetic.
While we are discussing irritating things, here is another one, condo's. The thing that irritates me is they are apartments, and someone convinced others to buy them. "here, here is this apartment, it's 1200 square feet, built shoddily,  but we want to sell it to you, wanna buy it?". By the way there's this bridge in NewYork that is up for sale.
Another irritating thing is iphone aps. Who cares if your iphone can access your DVR, and make it record, it would have been much easier to just push the record button on the dvr anyway. Not to mention cheaper. Now there are aps that will let you corner the market on precious metals, check out day care establishments, schedule a dentist appointment, or even buy a car. I have noticed an interesting phenomenon amoung the american public these days, thumbs are getting more well developed, and backsides are getting wider. All those things you used to have actually go, and do, you can now do by iphone. See the movie "surrogate", and take a lesson.