Americans are so spoiled and impatient. We were not going to recover from the historical economic decline in 2020 overnight. We have only been off of "high alert covid scare" for about 15 months when the vaccine became available to all. Continued falling gas prices will be huge in a full recovery.
However, bad news from the oil cartel on Wed. - OPEC nations, led the Saudis, and their allies, led by Russia, agreed to slow the rate of increase in oil production. In June and July, OPEC production increased 650,000 barrels per day and now will drop the increase to 100,000 per day. After 50 days of falling gas prices, OPEC manipulates the market to slow falling gas prices.