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As crude oil prices tank, State will be the pain at pump

When crude oil prices crashed in January 2016, local pump prices went down. But many people then felt that the retail prices should have dropped by a bigger margin.

Crude oil prices had gone to under $30 per barrel at the start of 2016, having steadily come down from $55 in October 2015.

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