To the degree milk is price regulated in America, it is with respect to a minimum price [1]. We subsidise exports to raise the price of milk.

Gas is competitively extracted and competitively refined. The price is high because crude surged and we don’t have many refiners and nobody in the West wants to invest in production because there is a good chance it will be banned or supertaxed soon. Broadly speaking, any time you think the reason for gasoline’s price movement is conspiracy, apart from OPEC, you’re probably wrong.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/42300/15268_ai...