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Oil market caught in biggest shock since 1970s

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 3/10/2022 8:51:04 PM

London - U.S. petroleum inventories are depleting to critically low levels as output fails to keep pace with the rapid rebound in consumption after the pandemic, putting intense upward pressure on oil prices. Petroleum inventories were depleting at an unsustainable rate even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the disruption of Russia’s petroleum exports in response. U.S. inventories of crude oil and refined products outside the strategic petroleum reserve have fallen in 63 out of the last 88 weeks according to data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Commercial stocks have depleted by a total of 315 million barrels since the middle of 2020, more than offsetting the 204 million barrels accumulated

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Reply 1 - Posted by: GoodDeal 3/10/2022 9:07:05 PM (No. 1096361)
Oil futures are paid for with derivative debt. Right now derivative debt is far beyond four to five quadrillion dollars and this debt market could reach capitulation at which point the US & global economy will crash like humpty dumpty.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Sully 3/10/2022 10:23:40 PM (No. 1096412)
Joe Biteme has done to the American People what the Sads did to us in the 1970s. They throttled energy production and the US economy and our very lives along with it. It was a serious crisis to watch our mother trying to find the dough to heat our 100 yr old house. Now a new generation of Americans can experience the stress and sacrifice of an artificial energy crisis. Brought to you, not by the Sads, but by the woke dem party of our very own gvt. May those living through it today have as long a memory as we boomers do.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: SweetSweetback 3/11/2022 1:29:23 AM (No. 1096488)
Totally avoidable, had this cluster F pseudo president not F'ed with a good thing Trump had put into place, that being our energy independence. F U Biden!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: franq 3/11/2022 6:05:07 AM (No. 1096575)
The history of our country in the last 100 years shows that when a democrat is in the White House, times are bad. Some would call that a clue.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MDConservative 3/11/2022 11:16:37 AM (No. 1096885)
Price always meets demand, and vice versa.
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