Gasoline prices and oil shortage

Is there Gasoline shortage. Is there an oil shortage? Have the oil companies with the help of the administration conspired to make a lot of money? I was told many years ago that Gasoline was essentially a by product. If the oil companies do not sell it then it has to be burned as it can not be stored. I think this was proven during the Carter Administration. An oil analist said there was so much oil out there as the oil companies are finding new places and new way to get oil out of the ground. This gentleman said if the public can hold out- the world will see 20 dollar a barrell again. The country needs to know who the vice president had as his advisors for the Energy bill that just went through Congress. In many ways the Supreme Court no longer represents the people and if president Bush gets his way - it will even be less than it is now. People need to start reading the news and I do not mean just the local newspaper or local TV- the information is not there.