Yes, I have no problem with paying $5.20/gallon if we enjoyed the same social benefits from the taxation as many europeans do. However, we do not and the gas monopoly (because that is what it is) has gone into price fixing- which is illegal.
Oh svwagner is right, I don't want to get into a big political discussion about gas either but there is so much info on this you can easily read up from the web I'm sure.

Anyway, I guess the point is gas prices affect everything. It's not pointing to a suv driver and blaming them for being wasteful. Everyone is wasteful. How is someone in socal that runs 100 gallons a day on a huge lawn, pumping tons of chemicals into it any better? How about golf courses in Palm Springs? That is the desert. Let me say that again: THE DESERT.

Does the precieved enviromental benefit of an electric car make one better than a SUV driver? Electric cars are 100x more toxic. How about luxury car drivers? Minivans get just as bad mpgs as many suv's but they are "ok" because...why? Doesn't matter really because blaming a SUV owner is like sticking a finger in the Hoover Dam.

Concentrating on the bee instead of the beehive is naive and doesn't solve anything.