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This really bothers me:

Crude oil prices plunged more than $1 a barrel Monday on a *edit* blah blah world current events that you don't care about blahblah *edit*.

Crude oil prices plunged a dollar. This would be the case if crude oil prices were like .. $3/barrel. Surely, a 33% intraday drop would be enough to use plunge. Unfortunately for Robert Barr, the writer of this piece, crude oil prices were down to about $75 from $76. This is roughly 1.5%.

Yes, plunge indeed. I wonder what verb Robert Barr would use to describe a "normal" 5% drop.