Well, time and Covid has passed since I mused. We stopped testing on the rig and have not had a case of Covid since. Imagine that. All of it had to do with cents and none of it made sense from the beginning, but whatever.
The price of everything is skyrocketing, present tense. Oil, for one, has doubled or more than doubled and that affects the price of everything. Plastics, fertilizers, IPhones, even toilet paper, and I hope this comment doesn’t start another run on non-skid.
It’s amazing to me that the president released several million barrels of crude again from the strategic oil reserves to lower the price of gasoline at the pump, what, 2 cents? What is it about the meaning of strategic that was missed? And too, that oil doesn’t just appear in those reserves. It was purchased on the open market from those terrible big-oil companies, or from that terrible Russian, or those discriminating Arab fellows who no longer talk to old men.