Gas and oil are now starting to affect us in all aspects of life. This is happening since the prices of both are significantly increasing and going out of control. Gas or gasoline is a non-renewable fuel made from petroleum. Petroleum is a mixture of liquid, gaseous, and solid hydrocarbon compounds found naturally underground. Refineries in the U.S. can produce about 20 gallons of gasoline from every 42-gallon barrel of crude oil that is refined. Gasoline is most used in the U.S. passenger vehicles with internal combustion engines. Americans use about 385 million gallons of gasoline every day. With about 299 million people in the U.S., that equals more than a gallon of gasoline every day for each man, woman, and child. Since the U.S. doesn’t produce enough crude oil to make all of the gasoline used by American motorists, we have to import it from other countries in order to supply the demand (Gasoline: A Petroleum Product). Some gas companies that are directly connected to supply the gas to the world (including the U.S.) are BP Lubricants, Chevron Corporation, Exxon/Mobile Corporation, Valvoline Company, and notable others. Then some oil companies that work with gas companies to produce the products globally (including the U.S.) are Gulf Oil Limited, U.S. Oil Company, Incorporated, Taylor Oil Company Incorporated, and notable others. Now, all of these companies that produce gas and oil, are now putting up their prices since we can’t supply the demand here, and that the war in Iraq is putting up prices on crude oil production (Industry Center). The result of so much people using their cars to get from place to place has brought the world’s gas prices and oil prices to an all-time high. People are then affected in all aspects of life by them paying a great amount of money ...