I can't believe this still surprises people

From front and center of Startribune.com today: Gas Prices Rise to New National Record.

"I've got to say, if they ever go up to $3.50, that would be the point where I'd feel angry," said Alex Magby, a Morrisville, Pa., resident who was gassing up near his New Jersey restaurant job one recent afternoon. "I'd feel cheated at that point."

IF it goes up to $3.50? What on earth makes people so delusional as to think that it won't?