Station attendant George Chahine fills a customer's gas tank

UNITED STATES - MARCH 24: Station attendant George Chahine fills a customer's gas tank at Sam's service station in Newton, Massachusetts, U.S., on Monday, March 24, 2008. Gasoline that's going for a record $3.29 a gallon at the pump is actually cheap, the way Citigroup Inc. and Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co. look at it. A barrel of wholesale gasoline fetched 50.4 cents less than crude oil last week, marking only the fifth time in 20 years that the refined version sold at a lower price, New York Mercantile Exchange data show. (Photo by Michael Fein/Bloomberg via Getty Images)