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Related: About this forumA Secret About Oil You Won’t Find Anywhere Else
A Secret About Oil You Wont Find Anywhere Else
by Porter Stansberry March 2, 2016
[font color="blue"]This is going to be a far larger problem than Wall Street realizes.[/font]
By Porter Stansberry, Daily Wealth:
In early 1983 the first week of February, to be precise the inventory of crude oil in the U.S. reached an all-time economic high. I say economic high because nominal supply of crude oil has since far surpassed its 1983 number. In fact, current U.S. crude-oil inventory (504 million barrels) is the actual all-time high. Supply today is about 150 million barrels more than total supply in 1983.
Obviously, we have a lot more oil in storage than weve ever had before about 40% more. But nominal supply numbers arent as important as you might think. Demand for crude oil in our economy has grown a lot since 1983.
To make a bona fide apples-to-apples comparison to todays supply glut, we should measure the amount of oil supply relative to consumption. In 1983, the number of days worth of consumption in the U.S. hit a peak of 33.4. Thats the largest amount of crude oil weve ever held in private storage, relative to demand. Thats the all-time highest amount of economic supply supply in relation to actual demand.
Much like todays glut, the glut of oil from the mid-1980s was caused by a sustained increase in U.S. production. More oil was coming from Alaskas North Slope. The Trans-Alaska pipeline began operation in July 1977. It had an immediate effect on total U.S. supply.
U.S. oil production grew from 227 million barrels per month in 1977 to almost 270 million barrels per month in July 1986 an increase in monthly production of 18.9% over nine years. As you might remember, gasoline prices fell to well below $1 per gallon and we saw a commercial real estate and banking crisis in Texas. Houston real estate didnt recover for 20 years. .............(more)
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A Secret About Oil You Won’t Find Anywhere Else (Original Post)
marmar
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GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)1. Google Stansberry and SEC.