"The Real issue to be investigated is how the price was artificially raised to $60.00 during the month immediately prior to the Election."
You hit the nail on the head, dude.
In addition to that, most people don't stop to think that with the dollar going down in value if all things were equal a commodity like oil would correspondingly go UP in cost. The falling oil prices are even more dramatic than they look to us here in the U.S.
We have gone from an economic "perfect storm" a few years ago to an incredibly good position....keeping in mind where we came from just a short time ago. No, not perfect, but pretty damn good & getting better!