This is three similar articles you've started this morning... it's hard to know where to comment.
But basically I don't think $3 a gallon is that high. It was already $2 20 years ago when I was high school.
I'm more concerned about the economic effect on businesses with already tight margins - like airlines.
Where do you live? It was about 1.07/1.10 a gallon when I was first driving (15 years ago.)