I don't think any reasonable person would think this decision works to fill the coffers of anybody. Everyone is getting shafted.
replyOil companies in the USA seeing a price hike from ~US$60 to over US$100? It definitely fills their coffers, lots of barely-profitable/non-profitable shale extraction becomes viable.
replyOf course, there's also the angle with Miriam Adelson who might have sweet talked Trump into going aboard with Israel on this disaster.
Alright, it was my assumption that we'll be left with a totally dysfunctional economy, and in that sense whatever's in you bank account means very little. If I were an oil exec I wouldn't trade that world from what we had before even if money was my only objective.
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