That's because the whole system is built on monetizing all the different products that can be made from a barrel of oil. Rubber, plastic, asphalt, Oil, Gas, etc...

You are useful to the system only insofar as you support the paradigm. Dmitry Orlov describes it as the Technosphere; a sort of hive mind artificial intelligence restricting your choices in effort to grow and expand itself.

Once Bitcoin falls to $200, andf the rest are trading for $10, there is going to be a new surge in gold coin investing. All these millennials that maybe found the nut like the blind squirrel, will be converted into gold Hodlers...very quickly.
@zer0hedge