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Belle of the Ranch

Let's talk about OPEC and gas prices....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:21.0

Well, howdy there, Internet People's bow again so today we're going to talk a little

0:26.1

bit about OPEC and oil and electric cars and and why OPEC may not be a big player in the future.

0:42.4

OPEC has decided it's going to dump, I want to say it's a little bit more than 600,000 barrels

0:47.9

per day onto the market.

0:51.4

The thing is, it's probably not going to change prices very much.

0:57.0

With the other things going on in the world,

1:00.0

it's probably not going to be a huge shift, where we're not going to see a change in price at the pump right away

1:07.3

Which means there will be an extended period where prices are really high

1:13.0

And we got to this point because OPEC wanted to keep prices high artificially.

1:22.0

During the during our public health issue

1:28.0

OPEC cut back production they rolled back what they were putting out to create artificial scarcity, to keep the price up.

1:40.0

Then, as demand increased, they had trouble scaling back up, which put us in the situation we're in.

1:50.0

The ultimate irony in this is that this extended period of high gas prices is a pressure

2:00.4

pushing people away from their product. This is a force that is driving more and

2:08.0

more people to look towards electric vehicles. I mean if you're going to buy a car right now are you going to buy

2:14.3

something that gets 20 miles to the gallon or are you going to look at one of the

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