Re:Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet
by oh_sigh on Saturday November 24, 2018 @12:31AM
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"Last to run out" makes it sound like oil will be increasingly valuable as time goes on. What if you leave yours in the ground, and eventually it is worth almost nothing, because the world has moved on?
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Re:Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet
by Baeocystin on Saturday November 24, 2018 @12:40AM
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Oil has much greater economic value when used as a feedstock for non-fuel purposes. It is almost certainly a better idea to let any reserves you possibly can stay in the ground for as long as possible, and let everyone else sell theirs for cheap first.
Re:Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet
by refurb on Saturday November 24, 2018 @01:14AM
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But if 90% of the demand for oil (transportation) disappears and supply stays the same, the price is going to drop big time.
Re:Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet
by Baeocystin on Saturday November 24, 2018 @03:28AM
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If demand dropped, initially supply would drop offline as prices could no longer support the more difficult wells rather quickly. And as actual production falls, the amount charged that the market could bear (if the market was mostly the non-fuel, high-value uses) could be significantly higher than what we see today. A scary time to be an investor in an oil company, absolutely. But taken in the broad view, leaving oil for later will almost certainly enhance total future potential profits, if not the rate of profit per unit time.
Re:Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet
by Dylan16807 on Saturday November 24, 2018 @02:24AM
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Good, that's even better.