Gas prices

So I heard something on the news today saying that they are predicting gas to be over $6.00 a gallon by the end of the summer. That totally stinks. My question is the news says "they predict". Who is "they"? Why are "they" the ones who get to predict? Why aren't "they" on our side? Just the middle of the night at work and some of the nurses and I were having random thoughts....