Recently as everyone who drives knows, the gas prices have dropped crazily. We can thank the Middle East for increasing the Oil exports, which increases the amount of gas we have in America, at a lesser price. This increase in oil has in a sense hurt the NYSE and also the Japanese exchange Nikkei 225, for most investors of oil traded their stock, causing the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index to fall 37.62 points. So although the decrease of gas prices is helping everyday average Americans, it’s also hurting the economy in a sense. There are always two sides to every story though, I would describe what has happened is a good thing, but someone might disagree with me. A lot of workers are getting laid off in North Dakota and Texas because they are no longer needed, if we can just get oil from the Middle East why would companies want to pay extra money to workers? This is in a sense a Cost Benefit Analysis, we could be using money to pay workers in the U.S. to be harvesting this oil, or we can just get it from the Middle East which is obviously cheaper since prices are going down. The Marginal Cost has gone down since the Scarcity of oil has gone down as well. We no longer have to pay $4.00 a gallon because we are getting oil for cheaper, in larger quantities, which is our, as customers of gas, our Marginal Benefit.