HPF & Meg Gentle

Meg Gentle began her career at Anadarko and steadily climbed the corporate ladder

“We no longer focus on databases.” Meg's context was ideal for my global political and economic stage. Like all before this post, I am only responsible for the context of it.

As Meg stated, “...Following the Russo-Ukrainian war and the current conflict with Iran, our oil and gas stock levels are significantly depleted...and China accumulated sizable reserves...”

“It's uncertain if the low oil levels are a global issue get smaller, as customers are evaluating the causes and effects of the current energy crisis.”

You might wonder more about China's position.

China is preparing for a scenario similar to Russia's, both domestically and regionally. They are stockpiling oil and gas using numerous small processing cofateria style refineries and smaller tank farms. This approach seems to spread risk, unlike the Soviet strategy of creating large conglomerates, which ultimately backfired. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian military's attacks on Soviet oil and gas facilities have highlighted these vulnerabilities.

This situation impacts the security of Russian territories, and European Union countries find themselves under pressure, as Russia targets populated areas, including schools, churches, and UNESCO-protected sites.

India aligns with China in supporting Russia. Both Russia and China are expanding their coal mining operations, as petroleum remains too unstable to drive economic stability and growth.

Domestically, we are enhancing our energy strategy by blending ethanol with processed crude oil. We are experimenting with 15% and 20% ethanol mixes to reduce carbon emissions and improve stability and usage.

Regarding LNG, Qatar is increasing gas production and exporting to European Union countries.

On other topic all together. Recently, Unthinkable happened; ARAMCO capitalized on Poland's underperformance and corruption drive systems. ARAMCO with the aid from Daniel Obajtek, dismantled the PKN Orlen and twisted the faith of Lots, negatively affecting PGNiG (gas distributions) to dismantle significant parts of Poland's energy sector. This resulted in substantial Polish losses, while ARAMCO gained wealth and now controls thanks to Danie Obajtek, over 30% of the Polish energy market. This serves as a cautionary tale about ARAMCO's strategies, particularly for smaller and weaker economies. Involvement of ARAMCO is blotted out, another success of the "Art of the Deal" success ideology.

The Russian conflicts have led to situations like ARAMCO's dismantling of Polish energy, creating gas shortages and distress in many EU countries. Learn from Poland's experience: avoid OPEC products if necessary and steer clear of ARAMCO's tactics.

In the United States, we don't need to worry about ARAMCO. We rely on "The Art of The Deal" to guide us to “success,” even amidst the wars that speard over continents now, but not yet as WWIII. Because... we hate wars.

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