Where is the BARF alert? When gas prices drop consumers have more discretionary money to spend on necessary new gutters, or a new mattress, we got a new retaining wall that replaced a crumbling one to keep our back yard from flooding. Being on fixed incomes you have to budget for these things, and when gas was over $4 a gal, all our extra money went in the gas tank.
It will take longer to hit food prices as producers are producing less.
You’re assuming that there will be a lot of money left after paying for fuel.
Not so.
Incomes have dropped dramatically since the one-time foreign aid student was elected by hook and crook and by many American voters.
Few budget as they see the central socialist government tossing money out the door like it was popcorn and believe that the corrupted Uncle Whiskers will take care of them.