Such a blowhard . America not need to sit and "DEAL WITH IT" (you probably should have added some of these !!!!!! pointy things to add more volume to your voice ). Fuel is a commodity, as you said, and they can charge beyond what the market will bear with little impact on themselves. You HAVE to go to work, and more than likely you HAVE to drive to work. If you're low on funds and you have to choose between keeping a job (paying for fuel) or having 2 meals a day, most likely you'll start to starve yourself even further to afford the fuel.
We're in a very dangerous position as a society when it comes to the ratio of provisions to work to workers. Employers can pay less and less in light of rising unemployment, while workers must accept provisions at whatever cost they may be should they wish to survive. There comes a point where people will begin to be drowned because the lowest 10% cannot keep their heads above water. There comes a point where there are no options left. There's no jobs, there's no money to move, there's no money to drive to work when they have a job, and they fall further behind. What's a person to do? How long do we throw America down the slippery slope of crushing humanity for the sake of profit?