Tick Tock, Time Is Running Out: The Path to $200 Oil Laid Out
Peak Prosperity
Chris Martenson
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
We’re almost out of time. The US has to get the Strait of Hormuz open, one way or the other, before its own inventories of oil and refined petroleum products are depleted. By the end of May is the word on the street.
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| 0:00.0 | The following is the audio version of a video released at peak prosperity.com. |
| 0:05.0 | Visit peakprosperity.com to watch the video and to find other insightful content, |
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| 0:16.4 | Could the Iran war spike oil to $200 a barrel? |
| 0:20.2 | No, it could go a lot higher than that. |
| 0:30.1 | Hello, everyone. I am Dr. Chris Martinson, proprietor of PeakProsperity.com, and the author of |
| 0:36.2 | The Crash Course, which largely spells out exactly |
| 0:39.2 | why we're going to be facing one of the largest shocks in the world, because if you read |
| 0:43.0 | the crash course, take it as a video series, read the book. You'll understand energy is the |
| 0:49.2 | master resource. And we're just about out of energy at this point in time. Calling this one, |
| 0:55.0 | TikTok, the clock is running ominously. It's the telltale clock. This is countdown to the energy |
| 1:00.6 | shock. Let's begin here. In the Financial Times, it was just reported, quote, we do not have |
| 1:05.9 | months, said Frederick LeCier, head of research at governor one of the world's largest oil |
| 1:10.4 | traders. And he warned that there will be, quote, huge pain as a conund said Frederick Lassier, head of research at governor, one of the world's largest oil traders, |
| 1:16.7 | and he warned that there will be, quote, huge pain as economies have to stop using fuel. It goes beyond gasoline, he said, at the pumps to industry shutting down, and then you enter a recession. |
| 1:23.1 | Not only that, but the cost of energy explodes higher and higher. |
| 1:28.2 | Carrying on, he writes here, quote, the tipping point is clearly June. |
| 1:31.8 | He said, this is the point at which something has to give. |
| 1:36.2 | And Amrida Sen, founder of the consultancy energy aspect, said that if the war continues, |
| 1:41.5 | until the end of June, all available inventories, That's stocks of oil would be exhausted. Essentially, you can pick a number when it comes to the oil price. We'll just not have any buffers. So, is it going to be $200? It's going to be $300. It's going to be $500 a barrel. It's crazy talk, isn't it? It's not once you understand how important oil is. |
| 2:01.4 | So let's talk about what happens if oil just goes to $200 a barrel. This is a projection that we |
| 2:07.9 | will be seeing in the United States, maybe $7 a gallon gasoline by end of June if things |
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