And what has caused the drop in the price of oil Jack? From $145 down to $115? That got anything to do with the USA threatening Iran with further sanctions? Or in your world is blame only apportioned "one way"?

"You are saying that it is a significant factor now but it has not been a significant factor for the past 58 years."

Well Jack last time I checked the overall trend for the price per barrel of oil has been shown as a steady increase over the last 25 years - Fact!!! From around about the time the ruling "communist" elite in China discovered that there was a far superior economic system available and they ditched their worn out and useless dogma.