Is Another Oil Head-Fake Brewing?

of two minds - Charles Hugh Smith:

The dramatic declines in the costs of oil production will be boosting supply at the very moment that demand is falling.

Over the past decade I've addressed what I call Head-Fakes in the cost of oil/fossil fuel: even though we know the cost of extracting and processing oil will rise over time as the easy-to-get oil is depleted, oil occasionally plummets to such low prices that we're fooled into thinking it will remain cheap for a long time to come.

This drop in price is a head-fake, because over time the depletion of the cheap-to-extract oil will push global prices higher.

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