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Scott Bessent talks of oil plan no one knew existed. USA has plenty of levers. Brilliant!!

Posted on 3/19/26 at 6:51 pm
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
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Posted on 3/19/26 at 6:51 pm


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: In the coming days, we may unsanction the Iranian oil that's on the water. It's about 140 million barrels, so depending how you count it, that's 10 days to 2 weeks of supply, that the Iranians had been pushing out, that would have all gone to China. In essence, we'd be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days, as we continue this campaign. So, we have lots of levers.
Posted by Srbtiger06
Member since Apr 2006
29157 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 6:53 pm to
Ngl this doesn't make a ton of sense on the surface.
Posted by SingleMalt1973
Member since Feb 2022
23673 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 6:54 pm to
China is big mad…

Posted by IMSA_Fan
Member since Jul 2024
738 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 6:54 pm to
Yeah - I have 3 degrees in business and didn’t really get it
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
21683 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 6:56 pm to
You realize what has been done in 19 days. What do you think can be done in the next 10? Are we out by Easter?

Regardless, that oil will be ours soon.
Posted by monsterballads
Gulf of America
Member since Jun 2013
31443 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 6:57 pm to
The golden age folks. Dropping sanctions on Iran.
Posted by Srbtiger06
Member since Apr 2006
29157 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 6:58 pm to
quote:

You realize what has been done in 19 days. What do you think can be done in the next 10? Are we out by Easter?


What point are you trying to make here and how does it relate to what Bessent said?
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
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Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:00 pm to


Surely, you can figure it out. If not, I am so sorry.
Posted by Nevada_Tiger
Las Veags
Member since Jan 2025
378 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:01 pm to
China was buying at a discount and paying in their own currency.

This oil would go on the open market - paid for in USD - and the $ would not go to the current regime.
Posted by Srbtiger06
Member since Apr 2006
29157 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:01 pm to
quote:

Surely, you can figure it out. If not, I am so sorry.


No, please explain it. We drop sanctions on Iranian oil and....? That's a plan. Not "multiple levers". We steal the oil? I mean that'd make sense but that isn't what he's saying as far as I can tell.
Posted by Mushroom1968
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2023
5938 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:01 pm to
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Yeah - I have 3 degrees in business and didn’t really get it


Yea, I invented oil and I don’t get it either.
Posted by Srbtiger06
Member since Apr 2006
29157 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:04 pm to
quote:

This oil would go on the open market - paid for in USD - and the $ would not go to the current regime.


So are we taking it? Who owns it now? I'm assuming an Iranian company or is it just some other corporations operating in Iran that owns it?

I'm not a world politics super genius like most of this board. It's a legitimate question.
Posted by Padme
Member since Dec 2020
9613 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:07 pm to
What does unsanction mean here, that they will sell it as American oil?
Posted by Houstiger
Houston
Member since Aug 2007
494 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:08 pm to
So, pirates?
Posted by Srbtiger06
Member since Apr 2006
29157 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:10 pm to
quote:

What does unsanction mean here, that they will sell it as American oil?


If you can't understand it he can't explain it to you. Literally.
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
21683 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:12 pm to
That oil can be sold without penalty to buyer. Sounds like 270 million barrels are currently on the water available to be "unsanctioned" if needed.
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
SouthEast... you figure it out
Member since Aug 2021
45915 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:12 pm to
Prices keep going up.
Posted by ronricks
Member since Mar 2021
11755 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:16 pm to
He’s a stuttering stammering degenerate homosexual.
Posted by Padme
Member since Dec 2020
9613 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:20 pm to
Thx, this seems to help China, but makes leverage, Trump may want China to influence Iran towards a particular path in the coming weeks. What good is getting that money if you are living in a tent cause your house and bank got bombed? Or your assets are frozen or traced?
Posted by RCDfan1950
United States
Member since Feb 2007
39386 posts
Posted on 3/19/26 at 7:22 pm to
So the sale of that oil mitigates the market crazy and the money goes to the Iranian people and not the Jihadist Regime? Very good.

This Board should have thought of that.
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