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Delighted because it was long overdue, a lot of the price volatility and increase that's out there right now is being driven by forces that are outside of the business, and, you know, here in connecticut where, again, my town it's $4.25 a gallon, people who are in the business of delivering oil, the guys who are at the gas station, have been screaming for months that the market forces, supply and demand, do not justify the prices that are showing up again on these energy trading markets. so what the dodd/frank bill did was give the commodities trading commission the authority to limb the amoun...

Up, and that's due to two factors. you know, gas prices are always connected in some way to the economy and right now, we have better than expected unemployment rates. the unemployment rate drops. what does that translate to? more commuter driving and overall, more demand for energy. so you're going to see that increase in oil prices, which translate in turn to increase in gas prices. but the second factor, of course, is we're entering into the spring driving season. so traditionally, that's an increase, again, in the commuter driving during the spring season going into the summer, but also, r...

Movement on a way to get more oil in the u.s. chief national correspondent jim angle looks at the reaso reasons. >> consumers are wincing at the gas pump. prices now increase 32 days in a row leaping 43 cents a gallon since january and 15 cents in the past week. prices rise this time of year but this year they rise faster and earlier. >> starting early for a couple of reasons. number one, we have the unrest in the middle east. whether it's egypt or iran. number two, we are still feeling some of the aftereffects of hurricane sandy. the east coast hasn't caught up with inventories and that has b...

Today's national average $3.76 a gallon. maybe in your area a little higher or lower than that. it's the fastest run up we've seen in gas prices since 2005. now our government says state and local taxes are helping to fuel these prices at the pump. elizabeth mcdonald is on this story today. liz. >> reporter: the argument and debate down on wall street is why are gas prices zooming so much higher? yes it's a refinery issue, yes it's a switch to summer blends, but also the u.s. government is weighing in on this. the energy information administration which is part of the department of energy put ...

Heretofore unavailable. john? >> diesel costs are up. that, i guess, could increase prices for just about everything the truckers carry, huh? >> indeed it does. we spoke it a lot of truckers today. keep in mind, most of the over the long haul trucks that are here have fuel tanks that contain a minimum of about 200 gallons. so you can literally see the pain on driver's faces as they're topping off their fuel trucks. this is especially true for the independent drivers who have to absorb these losses. with the fleet driver, they know they're just passing the costs along. >> fuel goes up, the cost...