Also it's probably educational that the "peasant good" that exploded is actually fuel, which has far reaching consequences, and zero rationale for getting more

Also it's probably educational that the "peasant good" that exploded is actually fuel, which has far reaching consequences, and zero rationale for getting more expensive. What that did was vacuum a lot of money off the market, additionally causing compensatory raised prices because there's an excuse. The market never works on supply and demand, not even money, it works on increasing prices every other excuse to the maximum level unless it's forced not to.