And as I said before, record oil company profits and record high gas prices are more than likely related.

What is your empirical evidence for this claim. It may be true but it seams like you're just wishing it to be true so you can hold a grudge against petroleum producers. It would seam to me that new exploration, horizontal drilling, reworking of old fields, steam and hydro injection and other new tech is what's driving a resurgence in oil profits. Today oil explorers and petroleum geologists are able to more accurately pinpoint reserves and have developed ways of pulling more barrels from each hole they drill. Smarter drilling and extraction has more to do with record profits then higher per barrel price. And remember the division which is showing the record profits is the upstream production section of Exxon; not the gasoline downstream retailer or wholesale sections of Exxon-Mobile.

Any business will charge the highest price that a market will bare. It's just how it works.

And this really comes down to corporate responsibility and human decency.

A corporations sole responsibility as a publicly traded entity is to maximise returns to its shareholders. So yeah it is about corporate responsibility. Human decency is not a factor in corporate decisions beyond what is best for its image and shareholders.