Chapter 272: The price of oil is up and down

"Hey. Fang Yuan sighed, turned to look at the long line, even if he wanted to, he didn't have a chance.

Fang Yuan was anxious in his heart, but the owner of the Fit car didn't look anxious at all, he even got out of the car and looked into the distance and asked Fang Yuan curiously: "What's going on over there?"

"I don't know. Fang Yuan shook his head slightly, he had never liked to join in the fun, in the past, neighbors or people on the side of the road quarreled or something, he was not interested at all, this time he didn't go up, just stood next to his car, waiting for the police to come and deal with it.

Fang Yuan didn't join in the fun, but the owner of the Fit ran over happily, came back after a while, walked to Fang Yuan's side and said, "It's just a group of drunk people making trouble there." ”

A group of people who have drunk too much, what can they do at the gas station?

"It's not about oil prices. "The owner of the Fit seems to have figured out the cause and effect, anyway, he chats with Fang Yuan when he is idle now.

Recently, U.S. crude oil futures crashed and plummeted by more than 300%, the first time in history that it was negative, and the intraday low even reached minus $40.32 per barrel.

Of course, the employees of the gas station were unwilling, and as a result, the two sides quarreled.

"I see. Fang Yuan didn't care who was right and who was wrong on both sides of the trouble, nor did he care how this matter was handled, he was curious that the price of crude oil could reach negative territory.

Negative $40.32 per barrel? Does it mean that when a seller sells a barrel of crude oil, he has to pay more than $40 to the buyer?

"It's not what you think. The owner of the Fit seemed to be very familiar with this, and kept laughing and saying, "This is futures, not the price of refined oil." ”

The owner of the Fit appears to be in this business, or has a special focus on futures, telling Fang Yuan that crude oil futures have fallen into negative territory for the first time in history during this time, which also means that producers will pay traders to get them to take their oil.

Now that the world economy is affected, if those people don't sell the contract, when the time comes, the person who holds the contract will have to take delivery, they will have to get the oil in their hands, and then they will have to spend a lot of money to ship the oil back, and if the refining company doesn't want it, they will have to find a place to stock up on the oil.

How can there be so many oil tankers in the world that store crude oil in tanks? Even if it is too late to cover it, there is no condition in the United States to be able to find an abandoned mine pit to store oil without worrying about polluting the environment.

As a result, under this expectation, the market panicked, and more people were willing to pay more money, just to be able to throw away the contract order to avoid more losses caused by passive hoarding.

So as the delivery date approaches, the price of crude oil futures has been falling.

"I see. Fang Yuan thought about it for a while, and understood the general truth, to put it more bluntly, that is, the original counterparty who held the contract order is gone, and the people who really want to buy oil no longer take the order, and those who purely play futures are forced to rent oil tankers or oil storage depots in order to avoid expiration, so they can only sell with tears and cut their flesh in pain.

Fang Yuan asked the owner of the Fit car curiously: "Does it have any impact on the oil price in my country?"

"In fact, whether the price of crude oil is minus 40 or minus 100, it has little impact on the price of refined oil in China, because the price of refined oil in China has a cap on the price, and there is a guaranteed price under it, and this protection mechanism sets the ceiling price and the lowest price, and the price of refined oil in China can only fluctuate in this price range. ”

Fit owners said that when the international oil price exceeds $130 per barrel, the oil price in Huaxia means that it has reached the highest value and will not continue to rise.

When the international oil price is lower than $40 per barrel, the oil price in China means that it has fallen to the lowest level and will not fall again.

Therefore, when the international crude oil price hovers between $40 and $130, it has an impact on the price of refined oil in China.

"And there is a protection mechanism? It's the same as stocks having a limit up and down. Fang Yuan smiled, and was suddenly stunned, because he had fallen sharply from this crude oil futures trading, and some people had not been able to accurately buy the bottom when buying and selling futures, but had lost all of them and owed a lot of money to the bank, thinking of his future career.

Fang Yuan felt that since God had given him the car dealer system, if he still worked as a small salesman in Zhenghong Car Dealership after completing the original accumulation, he would be too sorry for God's favor.

But since he wants to start his own business, Fang Yuan only had a preliminary plan before, that is, to use his identity and position to help his small auto repair shop make money, and then develop and grow little by little.

If, Fang Yuan's assumption is that if his company grows and grows, he feels that he should learn from Lao Gan Ma and maintain his 100% absolute control of the company, and he must not dilute his equity.

Now, judging from the matter of speculating in futures, there is one more thing to add, that is, no matter how much idle capital your company has, try not to get involved in areas that you are not familiar with.

The business of their own company should be based on the automobile industry, and after the car maintenance, repair, modification, accessories and other fields are all done to the extreme, even if it is to spend money to build a car theme park, to build a high-end car club, to collect and resell classic cars, antique cars, but also try to mix with the industry that you are not familiar with.

Because of today's crude oil futures incident, the cautious Fang Yuan has been very touched.

Fang Yuan thinks so, and will insist on it in the future, his group company has been based on the rapid development of the automotive field, maximizing its advantages, and almost forming a monopoly advantage in some aspects, but resolutely not touching industries that have nothing to do with automobiles.

People in the automobile industry love and hate Fang Yuan, some people call him the darling of the times, the darling of the god of luck, and the well-deserved overlord of the automobile industry, and some people regard him as a flood beast, a crazy merger and expansion maniac.

But people outside the automotive industry, because there is no conflict of interest, there is no such contradiction, without exception, unanimously praised Fang Yuan as the most successful businessman.

Therefore, later generations have a very high evaluation of Fang Yuan, and it has always been praise over slander.

Fang Yuan's life has become a model for the world to learn, from a grassroots to a business giant, and his miraculous growth process has become the subject of major universities and even many doctoral professional research.

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With the arrival of Didi's siren, the intervention of the police made the gas station even more chaotic, and many people who did not think it was a big deal to see the excitement were very excited, and the owners of the Fit and the nearby crowd flocked to the scene of the trouble, surrounding the gas station on the inside and outside of the three floors.

Only Fang Yuan and the four young men in front of him were left next to the long convoy that was originally crowded, and one of the men had been squatting next to the tires, hooking his head and looking under the chassis.

There were so many people and chaos just now, Fang Yuan was in a hurry and had something in his heart, he really didn't pay attention to these four young men, especially the black behemoth beside them.

Now that Fang Yuan saw the four young men and the black car next to him, he was even more shocked, because this black behemoth was the butterfly that Sun Yanming helped Fang Yuan handle...... Mercedes-Benz S-Class 2004 S280.

"Didn't Uncle Sun say that this butterfly was dismantled as a car dismantling piece, why did it appear here?"