Convince your handlers to show up and present Mr. Salesman. Would be a great help to your sales efforts don't you think? Increase your commissions even!
Chances are they are not going to be around long enough to collect many commissions, nor will be the sites that were set up to sponsor them. The third leg of the oil production process (extraction, processing and distribution) is about to fold. Extraction was finished when reserves could no longer be replaced, and the price fell 50%. Processing was finished when refinery yields fell to below the point where raw material cost could be recovered. Distribution will fold because of its unique structure as compared to extraction, and processing.
Extraction and processing can be, and has been temporarily subsidized because it can be isolated to only a very few nodes. Production can be subsidized at the point of a few brokers like All Plains American, and processing is confined to a few hundred refineries. Distribution is spread out throughout millions of locations from huge companies like Hess to the local Get&Zip. Once petroleum's distribution cash flow goes negative, as it must, thousands of small Mom and Pop distributors will begin to disappear. The industries ability to function will disappear with them.
The only way to circumvent this enviable conclusion would be to circumvent the depletion process itself; that is not likely to happen until humans have achieved their grand aspiration for attaining god hood. About the same number of fools, as there has always been, think that we are almost there!
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