The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate crude oil, which is the bodies of dead dinosaurs that sank in mud and then got all putrified and shit and then the top layer of mud hardened and turned into rocks and then all the rotted dino meat was subjected to immense heat and pressure from the Earth’s geological processes and the biomass got turned itself into oil and then in 2007 there was this one really wacky Daniel Day-Lewis movie about the early days of the oil industry…
Yeah well CNBC’s price ticker puts the price of a barrel of it at $109.63 as of 7:59 AM EDT on Thursday, a direct result of convicted felon President Trump’s lame, terrible address to the nation on Wednesday night. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures are down 718 points in tandem.