With that in mind your " when crude oil prices go up, retail prices go up too and rapidly, while, on the contrary, when crude oil prices go down, retail prices do not adjust properly.
Could be changed to: when oil prices go up, retail prices go up while when oil prices go down, retail prices do not follow. The fact is retailers use these excuses when it suits them.
"Compared to positive and negative variations in crude oil prices, retail fuel prices increase faster than they fall" - that's not eloquent at all - it is just a pseudo-technical way of pointing out the blooming obvious.
The analysts behind these assertions aren't really the sharpest tools in the box they hide behind such language to mask their actions which are almost entirely self interested and selfish.
Another industry word was 'Alpha' meaning excess return and 'Beta' which means risk - it is so they can talk in front of people and they and more importantly their clients do not realise they are being ripped off systematically.
You've stated it more clearly in the first statement when you say "I want to say in an elegant way that when crude oil prices go up, retail prices up too..." The second statement may be more ELEGANT, but the first statement is clearer. GAWD, the more I think about this statement, the more upset I get! Gas prices are so frustrating!
I think you are beginning to understand the free market system.
Sounds good to me :)
Hello everybody!
I want to say in an elegant way that when crude oil prices go up, retail prices go up too and rapidly, while, on the contrary, when crude oil prices go down, retail prices do not adjust properly.
Is it grammatically correct and elegant expressing the above proposition in:
"Compared to positive and negative variations in crude oil prices, retail fuel prices increase faster than they fall"
?
I need an ELEGANT form to express that! Thank you! PS. I am afraid that in the second statement I have made the concept a little bit fuzzy...
