-- recorrelate? this canng how bad possibly get, you can see that they moved in tandem.ve really decoupled. do commodities have the opportunity to bring stocks lower? we see all the numbers and all this red. what does this mean for the average consumer? alix: if you have a car, you are excited about that rises the in lower. enough to off the decline, and concerns about the global economy and the financial threats. is it enough to the markets and our pockets to entitle us to spend? i interrupted you. mark: matt miller brought it up and we were talking to tom lee about this. earlier this year, americans, unless you want to buy a car, they really weren't spending. they were pocketing this money. alix: that is different from europe. i have no idea. perhaps there is some financial shock, pay down some debt if there is any left over from the financial crisis. money onending the gas. we are traveling and we are using it. the cars that we use are much more fuel efficient. how many miles we drive does not correlate right away to gas demand due to that fact? >> you're going to be