• bamboo
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    9 days ago

    I get this is just a meme, but this isn’t how the percents work out. If global throughput is down 20%, each company needs to increase their own production by 20% to get the global throughput back to normal.

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        9 days ago

        Exactly, if only the three largest oil companies had to increase their production to account for the global shortage, the percentage increase would be more that 20% to make up for other companies not increasing. Please don’t take this as me defending the oil companies, but instead me defending the math.

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    9 days ago

    Why would they increase production when they can instead enjoy selling the same production as usual at a huge price premium?