'RealMoney' Radio Recap: Playing Hard-to-Get Oil

"Where are you most being taken advantage of? At the pump," Jim Cramer told his "RealMoney" radio show listeners Tuesday.

Buying gas "has never been a particularly great experience," he said, but with prices north of $3, it feels like we have a problem on our hands.

But Cramer believes that consumers need to stop thinking that the process is corrupt. Getting oil from the ground to the pump is a difficult process that's becoming harder every year, he said.

You have to find it, and unless it is light, sweet crude, it's nearly impossible to drill for, he said.

Then it needs to be pumped, transported, refined and taken it to a distributor. Finally, it's transported to a gas station.

"Could there be more ways to get this wrong?" Cramer asked. Plus, oil is in hard-to-get-to places that make the process even more difficult.

He said that it's also important to note that refineries have been running nonstop ever since Hurricane Katrina took some out in the Gulf Coast region. But these things weren't meant to be run at these levels, Cramer said.

When refineries are running at more than 100% capacity, things will eventually break down, he said. Refineries will blow up and people will get hurt.

And let's not forget "geopolitical instability everywhere we look," Cramer added.

All the oil producers are putting out oil that is used by the entire world. And things are so tight that if a single country can't produce, prices will go higher, Cramer said.

Cramer believes that present difficulties and the threat of unforeseen problems justify these high crude prices. "It's not about gouging."

We have to get used to these prices, and it's likely that they'll go even higher, he said.