### Comment:
Higher oil prices for most part are drag on us economy. Look at recessions and increases in oil prices. They correlate pretty heavily, because for a long time the biggest import was oil. It still is the biggest but not  majority any more.

### REPLY:
I believe that dynamic no longer holds weight as the US has become the world's largest producer of oil. Current day US is different than the US of previous recessions.

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