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Old May 30, 2019 | 5:43 am
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number_6
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Originally Posted by SQTraveller
At least in a recession, fuel prices should also fall.
That would be true in a free market, but looking at the graphs for the last 50 years shows declining demand resulted in higher prices, to keep the total revenue the same, more often than not (the not happening when OPEC couldn't control output sufficiently). I wouldn't expect QF fuel surcharge to be dropping, in any case.
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