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IbogaProject

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8. Market manipulation
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:01 AM
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Part of this scheme is to break the decline in oil prices. A goal is to get the prices above $70 a barrel, as our fracked oil is expensive to priduce and needs a high enough price to be profitable. I bet our spoiled brat, chicken-hawk in chief also wants supply disruptions to encourage investment in Venezuelan and Guyanan oil. This will play weird as I think we have already reached peak oil consumption. Renewables outside the USA are growing at an accelerating rate and are now entering the scale where they are displacing traditional energy sources. By parking those boats their cargo increases in value.

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