<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Goldman Sachs projecting a24% decline
in second-quarter GDP. <br>"Nearly two-and-a-half times the size of the largest quarterly decline in the history of the modern GDP statistics”</p>— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) <a href="https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1241038712290643977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
One analyst I saw yesterday thinks oil will go negative when storage space runs out... interesting times.
Um. Is that possible? That can't be possible right?
That's a silly meme. The stuff isn't put into physical barrels. Someone just found a barrel on Amazon the price of which happened to be close that day. I paid $100 each for some barrels to hold chemicals not a month ago.I have heard the barrel that holds the oil is now more expensive than the oil.
North Dakota will face a choice between shutting down completely
That's a silly meme. The stuff isn't put into physical barrels. Someone just found a barrel on Amazon the price of which happened to be close that day. I paid $100 each for some barrels to hold chemicals not a month ago.
I understand that it's happened briefly in the past. They pay the refiners to take it away so they don't have to shut down, the refiners jack it up to about $0.90/gallon at the actual gas pump.
Next you're gonna tell me that sweet crude isn't sweet.![]()
More of an umami experience, tbh.
Um. Is that possible? That can't be possible right?
Refining is an expensive and energy-intensive process. Just because oil is down doesn't mean it costs less to refine.
I hadn't thought about that. What percentage of the price of oil is the oil, as opposed to refining and transport?
No idea. WOuldn't be surprised if you could find that info about five years ago from the DOE. Who knows now.
You can find that info for general energy production. I know 25% is lost to just transfer alone.