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Message 97927 - Posted: 21 Apr 2020, 1:55:54 UTC

Ah, they're looking for people to store it for them.
This from a local news blog:
US to purchase up to 75 million barrels of oil

US President Donald Trump says they'll be put into the strategic reserve for the first time in decades.

The announcement comes as oil prices plunged below zero for the first time ever with demand plummeting because of the coronavirus pandemic.


"Based on the record low price of oil, we're filling up our national petroleum reserves, the strategic reserves," Mr Trump said.

"We're looking to put as much as 75 million barrels."
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Message 97928 - Posted: 21 Apr 2020, 2:00:49 UTC - in response to Message 97919.  

So no one posting about the stellar price of US oil then, ey? What did it end at, -$35 per barrel?
Edit: now back up to -$16.- per barrel: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil

This makes sense in a weird way. It is the futures market. Some months ago you promised to buy some oil at a fixed price hoping the market price would be higher than the price you promised. Unfortunately the world demand for oil dropped big time due to the lack of demand because of the pandemic
. Oil companies stored as much as they had room for but now the storage is full. Tuesday is the due date for these futures. so you are going to be stuck with cheap oil but no place to put it so you pay someone to take it, hence a negative price.
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Message 97930 - Posted: 21 Apr 2020, 4:04:51 UTC - in response to Message 97928.  
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So no one posting about the stellar price of US oil then, ey? What did it end at, -$35 per barrel?
Edit: now back up to -$16.- per barrel: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/crude-oil

This makes sense in a weird way. It is the futures market. Some months ago you promised to buy some oil at a fixed price hoping the market price would be higher than the price you promised. Unfortunately the world demand for oil dropped big time due to the lack of demand because of the pandemic
. Oil companies stored as much as they had room for but now the storage is full. Tuesday is the due date for these futures. so you are going to be stuck with cheap oil but no place to put it so you pay someone to take it, hence a negative price.

Slightly worse than that. All the futures are for delivery at a specific place, which happens to store oil. It is slightly over 3/4 full, and that is before the contracts expire. So what do you do? Pay storage fees on worthless product? That's like airlines parking planes. So you beg someone to take your oil. They don't want it because like you they would have to pay to store it. Mind you the prices are for the May contract, the June contract was still on the plus side. If it tanks too, well, the producers will have to stop the pumps and leave it in the ground. Won't have anyplace to put it if they pumped it up.

This negative price will do more to stop the Keystone pipeline than all the regulations, environmental protests and court casts put together.

Drill baby Drill, and we didn't or there would be a huge government bailout of oil!
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Message 97937 - Posted: 21 Apr 2020, 15:03:35 UTC

SETI@home is temporarily shut down for maintenance. Please try again later.


Do we have an unscheduled festivities today?

Starting the sacrifice with an Irish Coffee is 10 AM here. :(
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Message 97942 - Posted: 21 Apr 2020, 15:37:15 UTC
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I've lost track of what day of the week it is. The seti maintenance shutdown shook me. It is Tuesday! I'm here and I'm sorry to say that my alcohol stash is rather small at the moment, so I'll do more howling than drinking.

edit: belated congrats to Richard!
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Message 97943 - Posted: 21 Apr 2020, 15:38:21 UTC

it's up now but I don't know for how Long ?

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Message 98071 - Posted: 25 Apr 2020, 20:02:34 UTC - in response to Message 97884.  

.It seems Dull has been on sabbatical for a while.

He came back and went away again in record time. Wonder if that means double length?
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Message 98072 - Posted: 25 Apr 2020, 20:10:04 UTC - in response to Message 98071.  

He created a new thread about his grocery shopping, it got 2 comments and then the whole thread disappeared.
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Message 98101 - Posted: 27 Apr 2020, 19:40:49 UTC

May not have made any difference to SETI but my sacrifice (large glass of mead) seems to have brought these forums back.
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Message 98123 - Posted: 28 Apr 2020, 15:18:36 UTC

SETI@home is temporarily shut down for maintenance.
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Message 98124 - Posted: 28 Apr 2020, 15:48:35 UTC

Will start the sacrifice season with few Irish coffee.
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Message 98125 - Posted: 28 Apr 2020, 15:49:13 UTC - in response to Message 98123.  

Anyone want to guess how many hours it will be down?

Will it be down long enough to start our ritual of howling at the moon and burning hair?
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Message 98126 - Posted: 28 Apr 2020, 16:05:20 UTC

The need to smell the acrid stench of burn't hair is a powerful thing.
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Message 98127 - Posted: 28 Apr 2020, 16:05:48 UTC

SETI website is back.
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Message 98128 - Posted: 28 Apr 2020, 16:05:51 UTC - in response to Message 98123.  

Whereas, the auto-message first thing this morning still said they were foregoing maintenance this week. They've forgotten to change that back again (as, I suspect, an awful lot of things have been forgotten or neglected).
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Message 98333 - Posted: 5 May 2020, 15:07:52 UTC

It's down.
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Message 98334 - Posted: 5 May 2020, 15:16:20 UTC

Time for an Irish coffee as part of the usual sacrifice.
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Message 98449 - Posted: 12 May 2020, 15:34:36 UTC

8:30 AM PDT, has the outage gone into quarantine?
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Message 98450 - Posted: 12 May 2020, 16:32:30 UTC

It's down, life is good but sheltering in place sucks.
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Message 98455 - Posted: 12 May 2020, 17:03:44 UTC
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As usual, I will do my part of the sacrifice. Starting with few Very Cold Coronas, is very hot here.
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