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Old 11-10-2021, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by EdFNJ View Post
No, blame it on the pandemic and the fact OPEC was literally giving oil away for 18 months.

EDIT: Removed a quote & reference in this reply to a now removed post making that part of my reply moot.
If this were close to true than gas prices before the pandemic would be similar to what we're experiencing now. They weren't.
I'm pretty sure that if I grow my own tomatoes they're cheaper than buying them at a market. When we stopped drilling on public lands we went from home grown to buying on the world market.