Never understood the scam.
Reduction in crude oil and increase in Middle East production levels = “But don’t look for any lower gas prices at the pump. Lots of refinery and production and transportation factors mean it may take months for the finished gas to be available to you cheaper.”
One Mideast country in civil war , even maybe one with 4% of the world’s oil, or one pipeline goes offline means within hours the gas costs more at the pump. Even Biden talking about his quick plan to shut down the building completion plan for the pipeline meant , right away, oil price and actual pump price of gas went up.
Which one are you counting? Iraq? Yemen? Syria? Israel? Iran? Saudi Arabia?