The low demand for gasoline and therefore the decrease in prices of consumer oil is still controllable by the oil producers, they can quickly cut off their production in order to match the current demand these producers will always say "Why produce more oil when it is not needed?" and they are right to say that as they won't continue to sell at a very low price. They have done it in the pass where Saudi Arabia, USA, and Russia all agree to cutback their oil production just to see the demand to go up. The low demand for oil also is always during the 4th quarter of every year as this is the Winter season where cars are likely to be less driven daily because of the weather and its road conditions.
I have observed Brent Crude Oil for a time now and the prices are starting to normalize. From its lowest price last December 26 which is 50.5$ a barrel it rose 6.5$ during the last two weeks. We aren't as near as the 80-85$ per barrel price but I won't see any oil price rollbacks anytime soon.
Trump wants cheap oil. He knows Saudi Arabia extracts oil at U$ 4 (!!), why then do they sell it at U$ 50? More than 12x profit for sucking rotten dinossaurs out of the ground!
OPEC will increase / decrease production to ensure that the price of gas is continuously high. Bankers aren't bailing out just yet, there is still money to be squeezed out of these sheep. When the stocks start to fail, they will switch to bakkt crypto markets
Hopefully so.
OPEC is a cartel. Cartels are illegal in any Western country, yet we accept this one for some magical reason. They basically dictate our gas prices.
That would be good for us, gasoline in our country is not cheap so it will help people to save on their expenses.
I have a car and I will benefit from this, I hope it will continue to go down, but on the other side, it will increase the traffic in our country.
Oil shouldn't cost more than U$ 10 a barrel.
It is the sad reality that we're living in and there's no way to stop it for now. The low demand for gasoline will trigger all the consumer goods to decrease in prices too. It's the market shaker and its also the market's indicator on what it should do.
Everything that we're using came through with gasoline/oil. Transporting goods, generating products, manufacturing it so it's really a good news if gasoline demand goes on low.
I think the global slowdown is upon us. The FED can manipulate the stock markets by printing free money. But can they force the world to keep producing exponentially more to sustain the worldwide banking ponzi? I don't think so.
Once the world reaches a production limit, who will pay for the U$ 250+ trillion dollars the FED printed???
OPEC will increase / decrease production to ensure that the price of gas is continuously high.
this. a lot of the deposits in the west (canada, venezuela) are in tar sands that can't be reached with surface mining. the extraction cost is much higher, so it's not viable to produce at lower prices. that keeps OPEC in a position where they can control a huge share of global production and thus control prices.
OPEC's average barrel extraction price is something around U$ 4 to U$ 7. US producers can't extract oil at less than U$ 30 as far as I know. Dictators have it real easy it seems.Workers never complain, no labor laws, if anyone looks unhappy they chop their head off. It's good to be the king.