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Crude Oil · 2026-05-07T10:00:00.000Z

Here's the name for an economic phenomenon that consumers are going to be hearing a lot more in the coming weeks and months: It's the rocket-and-feathers hypothesis, which concerns why gasoline prices rise so quickly (i.e., like a rocket) when oil prices surge and drift downward oh so slowly (like feathers) when crude prices come back to earth. The pattern is certain to become ever more obvious as oil prices continue to oscillate in response to President Trump's Iran war and the effect of constrictions in the volume of crude moving through the Strait of Hormuz. The evidence ... supports the common belief that retail gasoline prices respond more quickly to increases in crude oil prices than to decreases. The price of crude oil, which had settled at about $60 a barrel before Trump ratcheted

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