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5 Reasons Why the $700B Bailout Could Translate to $250 Oil

I think your timing for this article was kind of poor. Perhaps you should have waited until late February to write this.

The Ponzi I-banks and various speculative commodity hedge funds are no longer propping up the price of oil anymore.
While I do believe that peak oil is coming very soon - within the next 5 years, I've also noticed lately that all the SUVs are disappearing at my condo complex and are being replaced with tiny fuel sipping cars.

Your premise that a $700 billion bailout is going to cause massive inflation is weak IMO. ALL the countries around the world are slowing down and will inevitably lower their interest rates, thus most of them will be matching our inflation/deflation in certain assets and commodities $s.

Upside to Oil Stocks?

This article is written like those pamphlets you get so much in the mail lately about investing in oil funds.

The last time I received so many pamphlets/junk mail about funds for a specific industry that was taking off and was going higher was for networking stocks circa early 2001.

There is a huge imbalance right now threatening to overwhelm world economies - oil price. I think current oil prices will send the world into a great depression which could severely weaken demand. This expensive oil is driving up food prices higher and higher, and many people could die in the third world...

I think these expensive prices will bring a swifter end to the age of fossil fuels.

Be careful, if this economy tanks hard again - like most think it will - the strongest performing industries usually are the last to follow the big dive.

Oil Bubble Breaking? Barron's Outlines the Case, But the Argument is Weak

adenovir,


"In fact, that's what's happening. Even without price controls, Exxon-Mobil has decided that selling gas in this country is not a worthwhile endeavor. They are in the process of closing their stations."

The reason they are closing their gas stations is because they see the writing on the wall. If the market for hoola hoops was going to die, you'd sell your hoola hoop stores before they became worhless, right?
Plug-in cars with range extender motors won't require very many gas stations.

PowerShares DB Energy: Too Late to Join the Party?

Our energy market is amazing.
Energy products fluctuate can fluctuate 4-6x from their low price in less than a year or so.
Imagine if a Honda Civic fluctuated from $15,000 in January to $90,000 in December.

Why is energy production allowed to be kept so scarce?

10 Notes on the Crude Oil Fixation

Where is the link to buy the book?

1,238 Billion Barrels of Oil Reserves: Is This an Oil Price Bubble?

Morgan Stanley is pure evil. They raise oil to $150 last Friday. Then today they downgrade the entire energy sector:


www.marketwatch.com/ne...

You've got to love this quote:

"Morgan Stanley noted that this year's steep jump in oil prices could put a lid on demand.
"We acknowledge that the political risk premium for oil may have escalated in recent months, but even so, we have seen the price rise by an amount that is increasingly difficult to explain by short-term supply fundamentals alone," said Morgan Stanley, which is boosting its stakes in financials and reducing some holdings in energy."


The investment banks need to be shut down.

1,238 Billion Barrels of Oil Reserves: Is This an Oil Price Bubble?

There is too much recurring corruption and manipulation going on in the energy market. The energy producers drag their feet to bring new sources online and fail to spend on research - as it is obviously in their best interests to keep energy scarce.

Obama is going to have to build new, various energy plants and a viable hydrogen infrastructure to force the energy companies and oil to truly compete.

Oil addiction and a horrible banking cartel keep holding this country hostage and keep shooting this country in the foot.

Hydrocarbons to Electrons: How Long Will the Transition Take?

Give Bush's energy policy a little more time...

A Modest Proposal for Rising Oil Prices

Very good article.

Producers probably are manipulating this market. The government needs to eliminate all the speculators who don't plan to take the delivery of anything. The futures system is broken. One hedge fund, Amaranth was able to double the price of Nat gas...

Imagine if the government sold 10 million barrels of oil/week from the SPR for the next 3 weeks...

Fuel Check

Considering that we have now reached and passed the peak oil period where prices have been bid up to unbelievable prices, those theorists would now say we are entering the final demand destruction phase where prices will now begin their long decline to near worthless, as people adapt to mass transit, battery/ultra-capacita... cars, and inevitably to fuel cells all within the next 10 years.

CFTC Investigating Potential Crude Oil Price Manipulation

The slower the tankers move to port, the higher the $ of oil can go. There's no motivation for them to move faster, unless contango starts to play itself out...

Peak Oil, Crude Price and Equity Correlation

"Inferring the implications of equity negative correlation to crude too literally can be dangerous. As the markets pass through crude cost, the price at which crude merely has neutral effect on profit margins will be discovered. At this point, the crude markets will need to make more drastic moves to maintain current correlation."

Master Yoda.....Are you where?

Overbought Oil Doesn't Mean Excessive Commodity Speculation

Oil bull logic: oil has gone up 700% since 2002. Because it has gone up exponentially since 2002 - it must continue with its exponential rise, even if demand drops. It just has to...

www.hussmanfunds.com/w...

Crude Oil to $150, Then Major Correction?

I have a feeling everybody will buy DUG if oil hits $150.

Oils Well That Ends Well

Why is refining capacity currently fluctuating between 84-88%, while last year at this time it was at 93% utilization? Why are the refineries margins slipping so much?