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by esseph 54 days ago
> It makes me think their business surviving was highly dependant on low fuel prices?

Basically.

The entire modern economy depends on the price of gas/diesel/jet fuel being between $X and $Y. If it goes outside of those parameters for too long, everything shuts down. Oil gets too expensive or too cheap to extract and refined and transport, then the money goes other places.