BearTruth13 said:
As someone in the oil business, it is past it's prime.
We will need oil and gas for another 50 years but the demand has capped in my opinion. In the next 5-10 years, you will see a significant drop in airline traffic and even people driving to work. Fracking has made oil too cheap. Commodity through and through and there is too much of the commodity now.
Completely agree with you on the bold. I see the ERCOT data in Texas and it's fascinating that even with a population influx, it has....decreased? that's not supposed to happen, but like you said, it is.
Airline flights that are long haul are remarkably efficient and will continue to decrease in cost because of technology. If we sucked it up and put in ONE nuclear power plant(what's the point of West Nebraska?) and a series of battery storage facilities, we could decrease the costs even further. I just think nuclear is still a reality.
The majors will continue to consolidate, which is why i might play a few of those and wait for the merger.
I'm not a big believer in this, but those costs being cheaper has an indirect effect on China, meaning we can potentially source product back to Mexico rather than using the Chinese as a manufacturing partner. A lot of effects of long term low oil, that will continue to play out.