>There's been a lot of beefing about the price of gas over in the USA, on the UT recently. Here prices have started to come down (one garage, in 2 hikes, by 5p a ltr) but I've heard nowt of suc from the US. Is it that only the bad news gets commented on and people lose interest when times improve?

Our situation is different. We actually have gas stations that ran out of gas and only sold premium until it too was gone. The supply to the southeastern U.S. is still limited. It's the smaller chains that are having problems and (believe it or not we still have em) the independents. Gas ranges from 3.78 to 4.00 here still...