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U.S. May Have Only Five Years of Oil Left

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by chemgator, Jun 21, 2025.

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  1. Jun 26, 2025 #101
    PITBOSS

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    What’s the investment play? Big oil? Tesla? (Ugh).
     
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  2. Jun 26, 2025 #102
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    Yep. Traveling any substantial distances and EVs are nowhere close to where they need to be.
     
  3. Jun 26, 2025 #103
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    Easy problem to solve. Have your EV tow your ICE car and then when the battery dies switch over to the ICE car to tow the EV to your final destination. Win/win for both sides :D
     
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  4. Jun 26, 2025 #104
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    Lol. Yeah, find the largest one you can find and it has to stop once. You really got them. We should go back to the 15 mile per gallon trucks to solve this very real issue. BTW, you can buy a three row EV SUV that would make that trip with 100 miles to spare. Probably for less than either version of the pickup.
     
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  5. Jun 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM #105
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    Don't ask me. I stopped investing in individual companies/industries a long time ago. My mutual fund and 401k's take care of that for me.

    Although, if I were a betting person, I might start with whichever oil company has a good working relationship with an oil-producing country with a lot of oil, and a long time before they run out. Saudi Arabia allegedly has 50 years of oil left at current production rates.

    Also worth considering, is what chemical companies will have access to that oil when oil is running out in other countries? Dow Chemical has a huge new chemical plant complex in al Jubail, Saudi Arabia. It pretty much dwarfs every other chemical plant complex in the world, including BASF's complex in Ludwigshaven, Germany. It was so huge that when Dow insisted on having women be allowed to work there, the Saudi royal family said yes (for the first time) to allowing women in a workplace that was traditionally for men only. (I have never actually seen in a women's bathroom in a chemical plant in Saudi Arabia. The old plants don't have them.) I'm not a big fan of how Dow runs their businesses, but they may have lucked out in this case.

    Oil reserves in Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia
     
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  6. Jun 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM #106
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    Currently in Alaska. When the pipeline talk started I was told all the sweet crude has been pumped out and what’s left is the thicker stuff. How much of that is left wasn’t mentioned.
     
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