Tell you what. Let’s go back to what caused those $1.80/ per gallon gas prices and no inflation. Now get your mask on. Go back to commercial establishments either closed or with significantly reduced hours. Toilet paper, cleaners and meat shortages. A president in the hospital with the Rona virus (not taking medicines he earlier recommended). Half of the country acting like rear ends, the other half hiding under a rock. An escalated death count. Deniers taking their last breathes. You see. There was a reason for all those good times.
So why did it not keep going down. Did Covid cause production to increase to the point of being a net exporter of gas products? That is a really weak excuse.