HA! Another Jedi mind trick to try to get Americans to pine for higher gas prices.
Just some reality for those expecting a booming economy from lower gasoline prices. Most don’t understand all the indirect jobs and business driven by the oil/gas industry in this country.
It’s not a mind trick, it’s the reality of there being 2 sides to every story. Cat makes a lot of stuff used by oil drillers, with oil prices low a lot of deposits are no longer profitable, oil drillers are having hard times, which means they aren’t buying as much from Cat. Every drop in price has winners and losers, every rise in price has winners and losers. What makes a price change generally good or bad is basically percentages, more folks win from dropping oil prices than lose, so it’s generally a good thing, but folks still lose.
conditioning!
High Prices have to be mandatory for essentials - food, energy, medical.
Low Prices/Competitive Prices are mandatory for crap we don’t need and to keep us busy - consumer electronics
If you don’t support high energy prices you are a commie.
Well, we just got a fuel oil delivery today. Price per gallon about $2.60. Checked a bill from last year, $4.00 per gallon. The tank took 160 gallons. So we have $160.00
more to spend on something else (or save or pay other bills).