Ask the thousands truckers in the oil patch about that, and the many thousands of consumers from Virginia to Idaho who draw a good oil-related paycheck.
If you are saving money at the pump, I say good on you. That's how the market works.
But there are a great many 'ordinary' people who will be squeezed, and maybe wiped out, if things in the patch get real bad and stay that way.
i’m getting tired of the low prices hurt us crowd. artificially high prices on anything to support someones well being is welfare period
The key being if other sectors of the economy are doing well then truckers will have alternative sources for hauling revenue. I admit I don’t know about other sectors booming. As an aside I’m out three days a week at 3:00 AM and the amount of trucks has increased. On last Friday the freeway was almost wall to wall in “Big Rigs.” Any posters out there who are truckers?