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Russian Oil and Gas Pipelines

Big Red Car — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 04:26:26 +0000

To really understand the impact of Russian oil and gas on Europe — and to understand the impact on the future of Ukraine — you have to study the existing pipeline system. Nobody seems to be willing to do their homework to understand the magnitude of the problem. Here is a decent schematic showing the […]

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Moving Markets — President Trump And Global Oil

Big Red Car — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:01:38 +0000

We are living in interesting times. We are facing a pandemic, an economic crisis, a stock market brouhaha, and an oil bust. Today, we focus on the oil bust. In case you haven’t been following things, the Russians and the Saudis got into a pissing contest as to the level of oil output by the […]

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Oil War

Big Red Car — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 19:02:19 +0000

If you slept in on Daylight Savings Time, then you may have missed that we have another war erupting in the Middle East — Saudi Arabia (through the newly public Aramco which it controls) has lowered the price of its crude, while threatening to increase crude oil production by more than 2,300,000 barrels daily to […]

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Iran, Curious, Provocative Iran

Big Red Car — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 23:03:55 +0000

The Middle East is on the verge of an explosion precipitated by a spiral of Iranian provocative behavior. Your Big Red Car would like to calmly discuss what has transpired to bring the world to this point. We need to know the history of the region and Iran. In 1979, the Shah of Iran — […]

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United States Oil Production

Big Red Car — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:16:30 +0000

Oil, y’all? Texas tea? Big Red Car here down in the Oil Patch of Austin By God Texas. OK, no oil wells in Austin, but I can get to some in half an hour. So, we talked about Texas oil here: Texas Oil Today, we talk about oil in the United States. United States, largest […]

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Texas Oil

Big Red Car — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 02:03:42 +0000

Big Red Car here talking Texas oil, y’all. One of the worst reported business phenomenon is the enormous strength of American oil production and Texas’ part in that. Y’all know all about the enormous flows from shale oil, fracking, and horizontal drilling, right? But, you ask, “How big is it, Big Red Car?” As you […]

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Trump on Oil

Big Red Car — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:16:46 +0000

Trump on oil, Big Red Car? We woke this morning to a Tweet from our Tweeter-in-Chief picking a long overdue fight with OPEC. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was formed in 1960 by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Currently, it is composed of Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, […]

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Oil, Keep An Eye on Oil

Big Red Car — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:55:30 +0000

Big Red Car here with gasoline prices in the ATX now at a low of $1.69/gallon at Sam’s Club in South Austin where it was about $1.49/gallon less than two months ago. It’s all about the price of oil. Wow! Still, that is historically cheap. Big news in the last few days out of Doha […]

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Taxing Anything Good — the Democrats or Just President Obama?

Big Red Car — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 14:52:33 +0000

Big Red Car here in the sunny ATX but it is a little chilly. Will be 65F this afternoon from a low of 35F this morning. That is a Texas winter. An idea we can all get behind, no? So, have you seen the President’s proposed tax on the low price of oil? That will […]

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WTF — What The Frack? Oil Prices 12 Year Low

Big Red Car — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:32:53 +0000

Big Red Car here in the crisp, sunny, loveliness that is the ATX — on Earth as it is in Texas, y’all! Right to it. Oil prices, twelve year low. The Big Red Car has been beating the drum about oil prices for almost six months –“Going to $30/barrel and will touch $20/barrel on the […]

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