You are right. If oil drops a lot, gas prices might reluctantly drop a few cents but when crude oil goes up, gas prices go much higher. I believe it is not a free market. It is a "controlled" market.
You would be 100% correct, free markets in the USA are done. The central bank is stuffed to the gills with our so called free markets. The central bank is now the market.
Don't chase the market. You will regret in the long term. You will be happy a few times that you did but not overall.
17512 was the intra day low in the dow mini futures. Im long 8 at 17544 with a stop under the intra day low.