My guess is that gas will peak early next week and slowly drop about 30 to 40 cents in May and stablilize until the beginning of August and will climb to $3 a gallon again and stay there until beginning of October.
Thom, you wanna talk about CEOs and severance packages? Check out Eisner and Disney.
Or, check out:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-04-09-ceo-compensation-report_x.htm
Don't pretend that th CEO of exxonmobil is the only one that gets that kind of cash or that the big bad oil companies are doing something different than corporate America, we know better even if you don't.