[beethovenfan]

But don’t count on gas prices going down.

[muawiyah]

The refined gasoline price always lags behind the crude oil price.

The reasons are so absurdly simply that people who don't understand them probably can't learn them.

One of the more interesting possibilities here is that the uptick in manufacturing probably reflects yet another productivity improvement driven spell of deflation.

Now that's even more complex so I don't imagine most of the folks on most discussion boards to have the slightest idea of that kind of linkage.