The Day Oil Went Negative: −$37 a Barrel
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The Day Oil Went Negative: −$37 a Barrel

Buy oil. Get paid $37.63 per barrel. Retire.... or so it seemed...

This is an animated breakdown of how oil went below zero, why sellers were effectively paying capable buyers to inherit the problem, and what happens when diamond hands collide with storage, pipelines and expiration dates.

It covers:

  • The demand collapse and storage squeeze
  • Why “negative oil” wasn’t free money
  • How physical delivery actually worked
  • Who became the final bagholder
  • Why finance cannot repeal logistics - not even with diamond hands

I know Reddit normally treats video posts like a suspicious options course, so here’s the deal: watch the opening minute. If it feels like homework wearing sunglasses, roast it in the comments.

I manually chose the direction and correct the script that has AI assistance in structuring it then i edit the final montage in DaVinci Resolve - only the still images and the voiceover are AI generated).

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u/SeriousDocument7905 — 4 days ago