As we talked in another thread, it is always possible to explain away a problem with yet another, separate, reason, including randomness. This may be where avodah zora impulse comes from – things are not connected, there is a special entity in charge of every item in the world and it has it’s own ideas …
re: oil prices, yes cyberattack might have came during Trump time, and yes, there is driving season, but it is added to restriction that already exist and the ones that markets factor in for the future. Keystone might have been approved years ago … Cyberattackers might have not attacked if there was a glut of oil or would be afraid of Trump doing something unpredictable … were prices super-low before the attack, they would rise from the lower level…
need to do hishtadlus before blaming others
just think what would press say if FBI says cyberattack was done by Russians, but Trump would deny it the way Biden just did. And Biden is still on twitter, I think.