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Is there an oil shortage?

Another thread from this OP devoid of reality or even understanding that oil is a globally traded commodity with all sorts of players in the game from ground to in the gas tank across the planet.

Blaming this all on "speculation in the markets" is not only naive, but borderline intentionally dishonest.
 
If not, there is only one thing causing the price of oil to rise, speculation in the markets, period. If you disagree please state your reason/s why.
The other side of any "shortage" - real, contrived or imagined - is demand. US citizens represent must less than 4.5% of the world's population, but we still consume 20% of the world's gasoline. We are embarrassingly addicted to, and gluttonous of, petroleum.

 
Another thread from this OP devoid of reality or even understanding that oil is a globally traded commodity with all sorts of players in the game from ground to in the gas tank across the planet.

Blaming this all on "speculation in the markets" is not only naive, but borderline intentionally dishonest.
Ok but you are not explaining what the other players do to influence the price of oil if there are no shortages? If there are no shortages why is oil rising?
 
Some people think it's our right to be gluttons.
Indeed.

"How dare anybody ask me to trade in my 15-18 mpg SUV for a 35-45 mpg econo car?!!? To say nothing of my recreational dirt-bike, or snowmobile, or jet-ski, where I can burn fossil fuel doing noisy rooster tail donuts all day, while polluting my fresh water lake! The nerve of some people, eh?"

Is it any wonder they're all in denial of AGW? They have a heavy vested interest, both in comfort and recreation, to telling themselves it doesn't exist.
 
If not, there is only one thing causing the price of oil to rise, speculation in the markets, period. If you disagree please state your reason/s why.
Husband thinks it is due to hysteria. I agree.
 
Ok but you are not explaining what the other players do to influence the price of oil if there are no shortages? If there are no shortages why is oil rising?

Again, oil is traded globally with price determined by a slew of factors... not just because of any one nation importing from / exporting to other nations.

You have created a very naive false dilemma that it is either shortages or speculation, excluding the possibility of a combination of the two as well as a combination of the two in concert with other factors. I don't know, like a world oil supplier invading another nation.

Oil markets, again internationally, are easy to spook one price direction or another. You add in Putin's temper tantrum and this is amplified.

Looking over the futures market for oil (which I used to do anyway) I can clearly see what is happening with supply / demand assumption over the coming half year at least impacted greatly by Russia having to look for other buyers and numerous nations changing their outlooks on buy sell arrangements.

You may politically, haphazardly, and rather foolishly say go target big oil and ignore all the other players but that is beyond asinine. The typical Elizabeth Warren rhetoric designed to mislead, as you are doing with this thread.

You of all people should know what happens with supply side faults (for any reason and for any amount of time) against economic gains where demand and supply do not line up. It leads to higher costs and higher profits *exclusively* because of econ 101 explanation of demand not changing when supply is (or even might.) Speculation has no choice but to reevaluate who is going to be a buyer and a seller on settlement day each month in concert with global movement of oil.

It is a new political bogeyman designed to ignore a real issue, when speculation has just as much power to decrease price as increase it assuming factors.

Those factors you care not to talk about and refuse to acknowledge.

Oh never mind, it is Shell and BP sticking it to the public... have fun selling that bullshit.
 
Again, oil is traded globally with price determined by a slew of factors... not just because of any one nation importing from / exporting to other nations.

You have created a very naive false dilemma that it is either shortages or speculation, excluding the possibility of a combination of the two as well as a combination of the two in concert with other factors. I don't know, like a world oil supplier invading another nation.

Oil markets, again internationally, are easy to spook one price direction or another. You add in Putin's temper tantrum and this is amplified.

Looking over the futures market for oil (which I used to do anyway) I can clearly see what is happening with supply / demand assumption over the coming half year at least impacted greatly by Russia having to look for other buyers and numerous nations changing their outlooks on buy sell arrangements.

You may politically, haphazardly, and rather foolishly say go target big oil and ignore all the other players but that is beyond asinine. The typical Elizabeth Warren rhetoric designed to mislead, as you are doing with this thread.

You of all people should know what happens with supply side faults (for any reason and for any amount of time) against economic gains where demand and supply do not line up. It leads to higher costs and higher profits *exclusively* because of econ 101 explanation of demand not changing when supply is (or even might.) Speculation has no choice but to reevaluate who is going to be a buyer and a seller on settlement day each month in concert with global movement of oil.

It is a new political bogeyman designed to ignore a real issue, when speculation has just as much power to decrease price as increase it assuming factors.

Those factors you care not to talk about and refuse to acknowledge.

Oh never mind, it is Shell and BP sticking it to the public... have fun selling that bullshit.
I don't recall blaming shell or bp for anything but you can correct me if I'm wrong. What I did blame was speculation in the markets, wall street, not big oil or these other players to which you keep referring.
 
I don't recall blaming shell or bp for anything but you can correct me if I'm wrong. What I did blame was speculation in the markets, wall street, not big oil or these other players to which you keep referring.

But you cannot articulate why, then pretend to win.
 
The other side of any "shortage" - real, contrived or imagined - is demand. US citizens represent must less than 4.5% of the world's population, but we still consume 20% of the world's gasoline. We are embarrassingly addicted to, and gluttonous of, petroleum.

Our biggest utilization of oil is transportation…and yes, a chunk of that is personal autos.

Electric vehicles cost what? $35K?

How many people have that money around to switch right now?

So let’s see - the two biggest oil sectors in the US are transportation and industrial.

Transportation: Includes energy used by automobiles; trucks; buses; motorcycles; trains; subways, and other rail vehicles; aircraft; and ships, barges, and other waterborne vehicles whose primary purpose is transporting people or goods from one location to another. Vehicles whose primary purpose is not transportation (for example: construction cranes and bulldozers, farming vehicles, and warehouse forklifts) are classified in the sector of their primary use.

Second biggest use is industrial:

Industrial: Includes energy consumed for manufacturing (NAICS codes 31- 33); agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting (NAICS code 11); mining, including oil and natural gas extraction (NAICS code 21); construction (NAICS code 23); and combined-heat-and-power (CHP) generators that produce electricity or useful ther


Where should we make the cuts?
 
There is if we want to replace all (or even some) of the Russian oil and natural gas exports to Europe.
And if we don't, then the Russians have leverage to split us off from Europe where it comes to enforcing sanctions over Ukraine.

So I guess the answer is dependent on what kind of foreign policy you want us to have.
 
speculation created by numerous spectators is the right answer because shortage of oil is not the problem.

inflating commodities aka duping the consumers is unethical.

Consumers one way to battle inflation is to stop shopping irresponsibly which will work. Elected officials are not going to do anything about it except offer political rhetoric to appease the voters who keep re-electing these bogus capitol hill inside trading crooks.

Bongsaway is not naive.
 
Our biggest utilization of oil is transportation…and yes, a chunk of that is personal autos.

Where should we make the cuts?
We should all be doing our part, everything we can do, every day. A good place to start would be no recreational use of fossil fuels.
Do we really need to be screaming through the woods on dirt bikes and snowmobiles? Do we really need to spin in circles on our Jet Skis?

Can we use a rake instead of a gas powered leaf blower? Can we shovel our driveway instead of powering up the snowblower?

These question can only be answered by the individual, but a little more respect for the environment, and the lives sacrificed to provide us with gasoline, could go a long way to reducing our consumption.
 
But you cannot articulate why, then pretend to win.
I think I've articulated it a couple of times already, speculation in the markets, you however disagree so I guess we're at a standoff but you still haven't really explained how 'other players' influence the price of oil when there are no shortages. The big oil producers like saudi arabia set a price they would like to get for a barrel of oil and because of differing factors that price moves around, sometimes they get more, sometimes they get less but mostly the price of a barrel of oil depends on speculation in the markets barring any shortages or wars or that kind of disruptive event.
 
Inflation, speculation, in our nation how can we be innoculated ...............

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We should all be doing our part, everything we can do, every day. A good place to start would be no recreational use of fossil fuels.
Do we really need to be screaming through the woods on dirt bikes and snowmobiles? Do we really need to spin in circles on our Jet Skis?

Can we use a rake instead of a gas powered leaf blower? Can we shovel our driveway instead of powering up the snowblower?

These question can only be answered by the individual, but a little more respect for the environment, and the lives sacrificed to provide us with gasoline, could go a long way to reducing our consumption.
So, put the jet ski, dirt bike, snow mobiles, RVs, etc companies and associated repair shops and industries out of business?

The landscaping companies out of business?

Seems like a solid economic strategy.
 
Another thread from this OP devoid of reality or even understanding that oil is a globally traded commodity with all sorts of players in the game from ground to in the gas tank across the planet.

Blaming this all on "speculation in the markets" is not only naive, but borderline intentionally dishonest.
Yet somehow completely correct.
 
I think I've articulated it a couple of times already, speculation in the markets, you however disagree so I guess we're at a standoff but you still haven't really explained how 'other players' influence the price of oil when there are no shortages. The big oil producers like saudi arabia set a price they would like to get for a barrel of oil and because of differing factors that price moves around, sometimes they get more, sometimes they get less but mostly the price of a barrel of oil depends on speculation in the markets barring any shortages or wars or that kind of disruptive event.

Not at all, you are complaining about not being able to control other nations and you refuse to acknowledge oil is internationally price determined.
 
Speculation is how oil is priced.

Forget it, who you are talking to has no idea what the alternative is nor what it would mean for international trade of oil.
 
If not, there is only one thing causing the price of oil to rise, speculation in the markets, period. If you disagree please state your reason/s why.
Likely speculation about future shortage which might or might not turn out accurate is part of the story.

Either way, it's not evil and not even hurtful, speculation serves a useful purpose.
 
speculation created by numerous spectators is the right answer because shortage of oil is not the problem.

inflating commodities aka duping the consumers is unethical.

Consumers one way to battle inflation is to stop shopping irresponsibly which will work. Elected officials are not going to do anything about it except offer political rhetoric to appease the voters who keep re-electing these bogus capitol hill inside trading crooks.

Bongsaway is not naive.
We have feet, we have sidewalks, we have a variety of cycles, we have roller skates all of which play a part in our transportation system. PARK our cars and use our feet, our sidewalks, pick a cycle or roller skates and begin cutting way back on the use of fossil fuels. We'll all be glad we did do this.
 

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We have feet, we have sidewalks, we have a variety of cycles, we have roller skates all of which play a part in our transportation system. PARK our cars and use our feet, our sidewalks, pick a cycle or roller skates and begin cutting way back on the use of fossil fuels. We'll all be glad we did do this.
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