Tick Tock, Time Is Running Out: The Path to $200 Oil Laid Out

Originally published at: https://peakprosperity.com/tick-tock-time-is-running-out-the-path-to-200-oil-laid-out/

For all of my Peak Prosperity followers and subscribers, I am going to start producing more frequent public video content.

As with COVID, my intent is for you to learn something but also to think, “I’ve got to send this to Aunt Sally and Uncle Bob.”

These videos will all be under 10 minutes, and will draw heavily from just one section of a given Fat Pipe or Wake-Up Call.

The summary of this video is that we are currently on a clear trajectory to $200+ oil, and possibly a lot higher. In some parts of the US, they are already experiencing the highest gasoline and diesel prices on record.

And, no, the US cannot be the swing supplier for the world, as many ignorant US officials keep claiming or suggesting. The US is and will remain a net oil importer until and unless internal demand is killed off by higher prices.

However, the US is currently exporting oil on a net basis, meaning it is drawing down its own inventories to keep other countries supplied. This cannot continue for much longer, and that’s the ticking clock in this story.

The US will either have to walk away from the Middle East or escalate dramatically in an attempt to save face and force open the Strait of Hormuz. If the latter, I will be issuing my third and most urgent ALERT to subscribers during this conflict.

Iran has promised to strike the remaining oil export capabilities of the Persian Gulf states if it is attacked. A move which would put us on the path to $300 or even $500 oil, and several localized shortages of an enormous array of products.


Timestamps

00:00 The Impending Energy Crisis
03:06 Oil Prices and Economic Impact
06:01 U.S. Oil Production and Export Dynamics
08:52 Future Projections and Strategic Insights

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Who is Beda Schmid?!?

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Yo Beda, I’m doing my part to be patriotic and not a non-MAGA loser. I leave from North Dakota to drive back to Oklahoma early tomorrow morning. I’m going to use the free energy of gravity and not use gasoline by driving down hill the whole way.

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Only $200? I thought you were a man of vision and culture!

With enough “Ukrainian” strikes on Russian hydrocarbon infrastructure, a North Korea-South Korea situation in the Persian Gulf, etc. oil is going to be one of a basket of commodities that will be taxed, mightily, by those running our fake, and gay, “markets”.

Like Enron, but with blown up refineries rather than some trader ordering a generation plant kept offline.

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Yeah, I was wondering about Beda. I thought it might be a joke. It sounded Yiddish to me “Beda Schmid,” having grown up with a Jewish stepfather from Brooklyn. Then I thought “Beat a what?” I better look that up in Yiddish. Beat a blacksmith? Not funny.

I get confused about what is “baked in the cake” and what is projection.

At this point, I don’t see how the “predicament” we’re in could resolve without a financial collapse and market collapse. It’ll take a good while to clear out now. And there’s no resolution in sight. Plant a garden, stockpile some food and fuel.

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Now now, that $200 is only for June. Later we’ll see much, much more. Patience Josef, patience.

Ugh. The big 250th July travel season is shaping up to be a shit show.

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You, among all here, seem most to feel the emotional pull of gravity.

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Reports of missile strikes on oil infrastructure in the UAE in the last few hours. Probably not going to help the situation much.

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Just bizzar how most other sources are much more calm about this

Just not sure what more to do except wait
Gas prices just keep gping up but w/o a large storage tank we just keep tanks full and wait.

Oil stocks goes down ???
Uranium stocks go down- how odd we have no choice but nuclear unless doomberg is right and there is plenty of oil :):slight_smile:

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I know its not Chris’s view, but the Russian/Ukrainian ‘abiotic oil’ theory suggests hydrocarbons are effectively unlimited

https://www.khouse.org/personal_update/articles/2008/fossil-fuels-only-myth

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Hat tip to you @cmartenson for making this public. Not only is it generous but if you’re even half right about the impending price of oil, the more people who can prepare mentally and/or logistically the better off we will all be.

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At what rate? It took a few years to build in the in ground inventory. We’ve sucked in dry in just a few decades.

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I’m with you, Rick. With no way to really store fuel, it’s tough to know what to do to try to be prepared for sky high oil prices. I’ve been mulling it over since Chris’s Fat Pipe this morning. If I have a light bulb moment I’ll share, and I hope you will too.

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Given the lies and misinformation reported on almost any and all history and purported “facts” not possible for me to believe anything without also beliving the opposite is possibly true
Very unfortunate information environment we live in.

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It’s not emotion. It’s science:

“Only drive downhill whenever possible. I’ve been saying this for years, gravity is FREE energy. Nobody uses it like we should.”

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Canada would like to help, but the most of our oil, natural gas, uranium, and critical minerals must stay in the ground.
Climate change, you know. Funny that we’re the only country cursed with this.

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OMG. :rofl: :joy_cat: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I don’t read what Trump posts unless someone here shares it. . . this was hysterical and gave me a huge, belly laugh. Just what I needed tonight. Thanks!

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Does Doomberg say where such abundance exists, and can we get to it easily/economically?

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