The rule of thumb is that for every penny of gas price at the pump, averaged over the year, it takes $1 billion of consumer spending.
So if the gas prices drop by say 20 cents per gallon vs last year, that’s $20 billion more dollars in consumer pockets that can be spent elsewhere.
Uh. So we should jack up prices to reduce consumption elsewhere. That will reduce oil consumption and every other consumption at the same time, it's an environmental win-win.
So oil dropping is like reverse tariffs