Given the correlation between gold and oil ( http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/files/OilGold2.png http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/files/OilGold2.png ), two comm

Given the correlation between gold and oil ( http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/files/OilGold2.png http://goldnews.bullionvault.com/files/OilGold2.png ), two commodities that have nothing in common, I think that the rise and crash of crude prices has a lot more to do with fluctuations in the dollar, rather than the underlying economics of oil.