All of these factors are being reflected at the pump.

Being lost doesn't always have to be a bad thing. After all, when Columbus got lost, he discovered America.

They aren't going to go down as fast as they went up.

Crash rates are much higher when teenagers travel together. In 2004, a little more than half of all crash deaths involving 16-year-old drivers occurred when they had teen passengers in the vehicle.

It's going to get worse before it gets better.

As we learn more and more about the teenage brain, which tells us that teenagers brains are not fully developed, and that might be part of the reason why they are prone to take more risks and not make good, sound judgement calls, and it may simply be because part of their brains have not fully developed. And there was a study done at Temple University that goes into greater detail on that.

This is the first time we?re saying something like this because we haven?t seen this kind of increase before. We know there?s no shortage of crude oil right now. Oil inventory data shows there is more oil available now than a year ago.

August is the heaviest driving month of the year. A lot of it has to do with the number of people taking family vacations.

Oil companies are responsibly reflecting the public?s outcry at the pump over gas prices. We have not seen this phenomenon before -- prices dropping this rapidly.

People planned to drive less and expected to change their driving habits. They figure out ways to make vacations happen.