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Price of oil could spike after Iran’s parliament votes to close key shipping route
(www.theguardian.com)
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Using a photo of when he looked directly at the sun with his bare eyes and then pointed at it was a good move
Watch Trump pump up those prices!
Which is stupid if you live in America. The US has one of the worlds largest reserves, and supplies it's own oil. Companies are just going to be greedy. Shocker.
Basic supply and demand for a global commodity. If there's less supply globally, then the price will go up. Doesn't matter if you're in the US or China. Another demonstration of the Donvict's broken campaign promises and lack of understanding of the complexity of the Middle East and war in general.
Good point on the basics. Thanks.
"Just put tariffs on it and then Iran has to pay for the increase". /s obviously
It's not as simple as that. Most U.S. refineries were designed for a different grade of crude than shale produces. Record output, sure, but we can't do much with it once it's out of the ground in terms of fuels. I'm not familiar with the chemical and plastic workflows, so I can't speak to that also being an issue.
Fracking has helped keep down the price of oil, but only because it's a global market, and other countries are better equipped to refine what we're producing.
Trump can fix that by slapping 200% tarriffs on gasoline imports, then the refineries and the oil wells to feed them will just naturally materialize.
Could? Could! Really?!. Most likely will
Predicting the future is not the purview of news heds. This is a question hed in disguise, though ... move "could" to the front, and that's what you have. It would have been good practice to throw something like "Analysts:" to provide clarity that the paper isn't asserting this nonassertion.
That said? Oil prices will definitely open higher tomorrow.
Also don't forget to stock up on everything that needs oil for supply chains to move them, the raw materials to make them, and the energy to run it all.