Oil shortage may set in by 2016
If crude oil prices move below US$60/bbl and stay there for even six months it could prove catastrophic to non-Opec supply.
LOW oil prices today may be setting the world up for an oil shortage as early as 2016. Today we have just 2 per cent more crude oil supply than demand and the price of petrol is under US$2 per gallon in Texas. If oil supply falls too far, we could see petrol prices doubling within 18 months. For a commodity as critical to our standard of living as oil is, it only takes a small shortage to drive up the price.
On Thanksgiving Day, 2014, Saudi Arabia decided to maintain their crude oil output of approximately 9.5 million barrels per day. They've taken this action despite the fact that they know the world's oil markets are currently over-supplied by an estimated 1.5 million barrels per day and the severe financial pain it is causing many of the other Opec nations. By now you…
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