You say: "Three years ago:
You say: "Three years ago: The national news was full of doom and gloom reports as the world was supposedly running out of crude oil, resulting in a near historical, or should I say, hysterical retail gasoline pricing."
Guess what, genius. The world is still in fact running out of crude oil and the pricing is being artificially lowered currently by OPEC as a reaction to globally increasing investment in renewable energies, because OPEC wants to increase consumption of its main resource which had started sagging. The Saudis want to delay that change to renewables and dropped the prices. It's not because the world has magically discovered a new fountain of crude to last us the next three centuries. Renewables are coming! Get used to it...the same goes for OPEC. Time to end global dependence on Gulf Oil which is funding backwards regimes and terrorist groups.