Fucking hell, We help the saudi's and other middleast countries who have lived a sweet life off selling sweet crude. Now with the recent announcements of them dropping production by 2mm barrels daily, look for oil and gas to go up, up, up.
I think it's going to really create some bad results for everyone in the world. Not just the USA but everywhere. What should be done?
I'd love to hear what you all think AMERICA (not red or blue, but all of it) should do!
And before we get into the energy independence stature- realize that if oil is a global commodity, (which it is)- global prices are what drives the price whether it's drilled here or out of the USA. The price is the price- so to speak and we regardless of where it comes from are going to pay more when demand continues and supply is turned down.
Regarding the current stats of OPEC: about 28 million barrels a day - Opec was formed in 1960 as a cartel, with the aim of fixing the worldwide supply of oil and its price. Today, Opec nations produce around 30% of the world's crude oil, about 28 million barrels a day.
What results is a 7% reduction in production but the elasticity of prices will have a much larger impact.
This is the type of shit that causes wars. When we see countries strangle supplies and pricing increases that are going to be profound- where do you think things will turn out?
BTW- if your comment is only by voting out Dems- LOL. that's fine but what would Repubs do in order to create a different outcome? Oh yeah, since this is not the past & the time machine hasn't been invented yet, please focus on the present and future universe. (The politics of this won't be the savior of pricing unfortunately if there is a Saudi reduction of 2mm barrels and a stoppage of 1 mm barrels from the SOR.)
This is highly troubling indeed.-what say you? BTW- Opec plus 1 is plus Russia- Just how deep down the rabbit hole does this whole fucking thing go?