CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- As gas prices continue to climb this summer, the folks at West Virginia Citizen Action Group are offering one solution.

Calling for a separation of oil and state, Thursday group members demonstrated outside the Kroger gas station in Kanawha City. They wanted to call attention to the relationship between the Bush administration's foreign policy and the rising price of oil.

"I think really people are smarter than the politicians let on. I think people really know that the unrest in the mideast is really causing a large part of the gas problem in this country," Gary Zuckett of Citizen Action Group said.

Leaders of Citizen Action Group point to a recent study that tracks how gas prices have risen dramatically since the start of the war.