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“I have to say this delicately, but OPEC, I think, is starting to realize that even though they cut back, try to balance output and stabilize prices, they have less influence,” John Driscoll, chief strategist at JTD Energy Securities, told CNBC.
If OPEC cuts back, they might lose market share and that gap could be filled by a non-OPEC producer.GO READ THE WHOLE THING.
After Iran took out half of Saudi Arabia's oil fields, back in October 2019, I wrote the following:
One of the biggest pieces of news recently - and this has been ignored - is that Iran took out half of Saudi Arabia's oil-producing capacity, albeit temporarily.
I can see why people are not thinking of this as big news. Everyone knows it is only temporary.
So why is it big news?
Because Iran and Saudi Arabia are two primary founding nations of OPEC -
Back to my list of top oil-producing nations, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are the largest ME producers of oil. And that is AFTER years and years of us attempting to sanction Iran out of existence.
So, what we could not sanction away, we have Fracked all to hell.
OPEC IS ALL BUT DEAD.
That is huge news.
My question is this:
In the future, what will be looked back as more significant, the end of the USSR, or the fall of OPEC?
It is my contention that it is very likely the fall of OPEC will be larger, because it cuts off much of the power of the world's net exporters of Islamic radical theology and Jihad.
HUGE!!!
TRUMP!
And THAT is another reason no one is talking about this.
Because it happened under Trump's watch.
And frankly, those who are smart enough to see it aren't going to credit Trump.
It is one of the few things I have not heard Trump brag about. I don't think it's because he doesn't know. I think it's because he has a coup de grace coming of some sort. and so it is strategic to keep his mouth shut right now.
It could have something to do with Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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Then again, maybe he doesn't realize it.
ADDENDUM
I wrote that three months back. I said that the death of OPEC "cuts off much of the power of the world's net exporters of Islamic radical theology and Jihad."
Note that just this past week, Saudi Arabia announced it will no longer be funding Mosques overseas.
Just remember this: America's biggest foreign policy win was not formulated by Foggy Bottom but was won by the Texas, California, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio oil man. The roughnecks did not even have to fire a shot.
ReplyDeleteA HUGE WIN!!!
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile Lefties are trying to portray Trump as a War monger and a tool of the Military Industrial Complex.
ReplyDeleteHardly.
He's like Reagan. Reagan was very anti-War. But no one listened to him clearly enough to understand.
It's a huge relief, however, much of the damage is already done. Unless the West, particularly the United States reverses the growth and expansion of mosques, Islamic Centers and related organizations, the virus of Islam and sharia will continue to infect, undermine and destroy our democratic republic.
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