I think this is being done to improve the Democrats election chances in November 2016.
This will cause the economy to improve and the dems will take credit, once the election is over the price will increase.
We do have what I think of as a thin ice economy, you can be skating along doing your job then the bottom drops out.
This is the return of the oil patch horror we saw in South Texas in the 1982 crash.
It was so bad that I almost lost my business. I had to lay off my employees and I was down to only 3 (me, myself, and I) but I survived and never forgot the lesson taught.
The real lesson learned is that the oil business goes in pretty predictable cycles on a 5 to 10 year basis. That is boom and bust. It can be relied upon to occur around these cycles until the end of time.