As long as gasoline stays stable they'll get a free ride on the dollar having tanked because the electorate isn't paying attention to the exchange rates - yet. Put the dollar back where it was a year ago and recalculate. Maybe it's time to present the oil price in a basket of currencies to give a more accurate picture of what's really happening. As I see it, oil is really about $65 and the dollar tanked, but that's never on the news.

Petrosaurus- whereas you may have a valid point in your reflections –

(full sarcanol-alert issued, with a tad of moral-lesson)
- I from my neck of the woods believe there is “a divine finger” pointing at the the most thoughtless crowd among us earthlings – namely the American-earthlings and in particular their leaders and voters - and non-voters.. hey that actually make up all Americans..

“The divine finger” simply zooms and beams the main-cost-change at the $-users who are the very worst among them energy_may_run_out- AND climate_may_cause_damage -Deniers .. their way of understanding natural recourses and their limitations is simply not permitted by “the finger”, or should I say lack of understanding .. as in NONE at all -
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