Here we go again with gas prices

[fabsroman]

Okay, that one doesn't have a fix like the gasoline demand with alternative fuel, hybrid, and electric vehicles; however, if the demand for gasoline went down, don't you think the supply of oil might be a little higher, thereby resulting in a lower price. Is gasoline the main thing extracted from oil and the main reason for the hike in oil prices? Are the rest of these "by-product" prices just going up because the price of oil is going up from the gasoline demand, or would the demand for oil still be the same to produce all these by-product items if we no longer needed gasoline from oil?