Quote from: fulcare on August 09, 2021, 01:29:04 PM

Quote from: SquallLeonhart on August 02, 2021, 12:58:07 PM

Oil prices are not what it used to be, it dropped significantly during last year's pandemic crash, and it never really fully recovered, it is going to be less and less wanted in the future. It doesn't matter how much money they make, which is less around now compared to back in the day, it is all about how many people prefer it. As long as people keep improving the renewable energy platforms, get more energy from solar panels, drop the capital required to build it and so forth, that R&D will come back and result with people using renewable energy.

At the end of the day which one would you prefer, keep paying for oil, or would you rather have something that you pay a lot at first but then free forever? Look at Tesla cars, you wait 30 minutes to recharge it, but then it is free of charge give or take, maybe few cents, whereas cars that run on oil may fill it up in a minute but it costs how many dollars? Eventually people will realize the difference.

Well it never really full recovered back to its ATH, but congratulations who bet on oil big time when it his its ATL. Wasn't it that you could get oil at negative prices? That the paid companies to put oil on their tankers and just park it in the ocean to keep production going despite lack of storage space? Oil was so low that I can't believe I didn't play a nice long position with leverage at some point. Who knows how far it will recover, gasoline prices are about to go to ATH.

I do not know how high it could get, but I know that it will not be as great as it used to be. Everyone around the world is going for green energy these days, which means even though we are still stuck with oil and gas for now, it will not be like that forever, eventually there will be a period in human history where there won't ever be a need for oil ever again, that will take few decades at least that is for sure, but between solar, wind, hydro and few others that I forgot, that is going to be something that is definitely worth looking into.

Plus entry to those business is not as hard as oil is, if you want to drill your own oil out of ground and sell it that is going to take you a lot of money, whereas if you just buy some solar panels and put it on top of your roof that is going to get you started, few thousand at most for a start is a good benefit of this business as well.