No. They wouldn't charge the same amount.
The reasons for higher gas prices at the pump right now are not that complex and there is no damn conspiracy:
1. Increased demand (summer in the USA, rapidly expanding economies in China and India)
2. Static supply
3. Market uncertainty because of Mid-East, African and South American political situations
4. Ridiculously inadequate refinery capacity and equally ridiculous refined fuel grade requirements that vary from locale to locale in the US
5. Confiscatory taxes
There is little to nothing that can be done about 1, 2 and 3 in the short term.
We could do something about 4 and 5, but the dems (and depressingly, a significant faction in the GOP) won't let us.
But, there is no conspiracy by Exxon/Mobile/BP and only drooling morons, low functioning retards and grandstanding politicians think that there is one.
Agree.
My own gas-price-crisis measurement tool is traffic. When traffic starts getting lighter, then I'll believe we have a crisis.
The biggest reason that the gas price continues to go up is that people keeping buying it.