This is entirely a response to gasoline prices.
The interetsing thing is that the next year holds more economic troubles, possibly even a mild recession, so that even a lowering gasoline price will not save them.
Nothin' like a little pessimism, huh?
Nothing pessimistic about it, BM. Life is a cycle, and the downtime is as unavoidable as the upturn. You expect good times without remission? (well I suppose if you backed liberal redistributionist Keynesianism you could hope for that).
I guess I'm neutral when it comes to reditributionist keynesianism.
Naso, it's ok to say that you don't know what that is. I don't know the specifics of it either.