The price of West Texas Intermediate is hovering around $60 per barrel — not low enough to kill the oil patch, but not generating “Drill, baby, drill!” vibes.

When the economy slows down, the price of oil tends to fall. But this time, OPEC+ is increasing production despite weak demand.

Thanks to abundant supply and fairly flat demand, oil prices are forecast to fall — unless tariffs and geopolitics get in the way.

The oil cartel is holding back millions of barrels a day.

Recession fears blunt demand, lowering prices. But conflict in the Middle East and OPEC+ production cuts could push them up again.

The scale, liquidity and stability of U.S. financial markets are partly behind the phenomenon.

The cartel wants to manipulate production to push up prices and demand.

Higher prices can correlate with economic strength. Also, OPEC is holding back supply.

Gas is close to the $3 per gallon mark and has broken that in parts of the South.

Production cuts may no longer be as effective at propping up prices because electric vehicles are cutting into global demand.