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Originally Posted by donk.

Just because the price of crude was 90$ 10 years ago, and it's 90$ today, does not mean the end user price will stay the same

The cost to:
Pay scientists to find crude
Test drilling
Setting up new sites
Hire staff to drill, when there are no staff to hire
Transport that crude
Process it
Transport it again
Sell it
Clean the tanks that store it
New environmental safety policies (through all the steps above)
and literally every single person associated with that process, their wages have gone up, every year, for the last 10 years
Don't forget maintenance of all that equipment, legal, etc

the irony of high gas prices contributing to the raising of higher gas prices