(September 29, 2016 at 9:19 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 29, 2016 at 7:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Manipulate the price of oil.
They've been doing this for three years now trying to drive frackers out of business. It doesn't seem to be working.
Better news yet -- they're depleting their reserves ever more quickly in the attempt, meaning that in the foreseeable future they'll go back to being irrelevant assholes unable to finance madrasas and Al-Qaeda operations.
Speaking from inside the oil biz, yes it is. There are companies downsizing and flat going out of business all over Colorado, Wyoming and the Dakotas because it's no longer profitable enough to frak the Bakken (and other) reserves.
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