You should spin this off into a separate thread. I think it would be very interesting. But if you don't, I'd like to know what it was like before 2006, when oi

You should spin this off into a separate thread. I think it would be very interesting. But if you don't, I'd like to know what it was like before 2006, when oil profits were high and subsidies followed. Did you get a sense the poor were significantly improving in their standard of living at that time? What about the middle class? If not, what do you think held them back?