Chapter 321: The Secret Behind the Scenes

Regarding the length of the crucible's life, Guo Zhuocheng only knew in his previous life that he mainly coated a kind of paint on the crucible, which could prevent corrosion, but he didn't know what the specific composition of the paint was.

Tian Hongmeng smiled beside him: "What did I say about your ancestors and grandchildren, are you going to hold an academic symposium on semiconductor research?" Hehe. ”

Hao Xiaoxiu glanced at her husband and said, "Don't be complacent. It's not the article that I wrote for you with my humble heart, or you have such a beautiful scenery? Is it that if you don't discuss the situation in the Middle East and the world oil prices, you don't have an imbalance in your heart? ......, okay, I'll go to the kitchen to help them cook, and you grandparents will talk." ”

Tian Hongmeng smiled embarrassedly, and then said to Guo Zhuocheng: "Humble Cheng, do you have any new insights into world oil prices?" ”

Guo Shucheng shook his head and said, "What other opinions can I have?" Last time, I was bold enough to say that ♀ I was busy with other things for a while, so I didn't think about it. ”

Tian Hongmeng did not doubt him, he nodded, and said: "I always feel that the price of crude oil has reached more than thirty-nine US dollars, which is really a bit unreliable. ......, since the last time this article was published, especially since your grandmother came to the United States to contact the Bruce family, my superiors have assigned me to study the situation in the Middle East and its impact on world crude oil prices. To this end, I went to the Daqing Oilfield to conduct research, and I found that the cost of a barrel of crude oil in China is less than three yuan. If it is a European and American country, their mechanization process is high, and the automation process is high, although I am not sure what their cost is, but it will certainly not be higher than the cost of crude oil in our country, and the news I got from the relevant channels also confirmed my conjecture.

Of course, I know that there is no fixed relationship between the price and the cost of commodities, and it is greatly affected by supply and demand, artificial influence, and reserves, but it should not be maintained at such a high price, and it is long-term. According to the laws of economics and sociology, when the profit rate of a commodity is higher than the average profit rate of the commodity, other businesses will follow, and investment will flock to it, until the profit rate of this commodity is equal to or lower than the average profit rate of the commodity, and this trend can be reversed.

At present, the exploitation of crude oil is not completely monopolized, and there is no sign of the depletion of oil resources, and there is no shortage of gasoline and diesel in the market≤ so high prices are unexpected, and it is unthinkable to maintain this price.

This oil crisis, let's call it an oil crisis for the time being, is a bit different from the first oil crisis. The first oil crisis was caused by the outbreak of the fourth Middle East war in 0/97. In February of that year, the Arab members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced that they would withdraw their oil pricing rights and raise the price of their crude oil from $0 to $065 per barrel, more than tripling oil prices, triggering the most severe global economic crisis since World War II. The three-year-long oil crisis has had a severe impact on the economies of developed countries.

In fact, although the initiators of this crisis are Arab members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), it is the American oil capitalists who have taken advantage of the oil embargo in the Arab oil-producing countries to deliberately create oil shortages and inflate oil prices, so as to reap huge profits. However, the US government deliberately misled the public, attributing all the bad consequences caused by high oil prices to OPEC's 'malicious retaliation' against the United States, and even described American oil traders as victims of the current oil crisis, in an attempt to dilute the inherent hatred of the American people towards oil monopoly capital, take the opportunity to relax all kinds of restrictions on monopoly behavior in the oil industry, and give the green light to a new round of monopoly in the oil industry.

Although there are still many people who do not recognize the essence and still say that the first oil crisis was caused by the fourth Middle East war, many economists know what happened. Do the US oil capitalists now want to repeat their old tricks and use Iran to raise oil prices again? Will this work? How long can such artificially raised oil prices be maintained?

As far as I know, despite the revolution in Iran, Iran's oil production has only declined slightly, still remaining at about 4 million barrels per day, which is a lot lower than the peak of 500,000 barrels per day, but it is not enough to have such a big impact on the global crude oil supply. At present, the Soviet Union and China have greatly increased their crude oil production, which is constantly supplying the world market, and a large number of oil fields have also been discovered in Africa, and the extracted crude oil has begun to be shipped to Western countries in a steady stream.

In addition, Mexico's new crude oil production in recent years alone has basically made up for the decline in Iran's crude oil production. What's more, Britain and Norway have discovered large oil fields in the North Sea, the great Exfisk oil field discovered in 969 and the Fodist oil field discovered in 970 have been put into production, and their production is also very large. It's a dead shoulder! ”

Guo Zhuocheng was speechless, these things that his grandfather said were true, he didn't expect his grandfather to collect so much information at once. You must know that in the previous life, many people still thought that the second oil crisis was caused by Iran and the Iran-Iraq war, and the "ridiculously high" price of crude oil in the world was caused by the turmoil in these two countries, but in fact, this qiē was caused by the American oil capitalists.

The media, which were bribed or controlled by the oil capitalists, first exaggerated the danger of Iran's oil production cut to the United States, and then deliberately reduced the amount of oil supplied to the American market, artificially creating an oil shortage, and then the oil merchants frantically raised the price ♀ according to their internal unanimous agreement, and the world crude oil price soared from the dollar per barrel at the end of '97 to $95 in April '90.

While the turmoil in Iran has caused a decline in the country's oil production, Iran's oil production did not plummet below 00000 barrels per day at the beginning. During the Iranian Revolution in 97~979, Iran's oil production only decreased slightly, and it still remained at Niss

About 4 million barrels. It wasn't until after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war in September '90 that Iran's oil production really declined, but not by much at first. After a series of "city raids", "ship raids" and "oil raids" between the two sides, it was not until 96 that the oil facilities of the two countries were destroyed and destroyed, and the oil facilities in the two countries were almost completely destroyed, and oil production was nearly paralyzed, Iran's daily oil production plummeted to less than 000,000 barrels.

However, to the surprise of the world, in 96, when the production of Iran and Iraq was almost zero, the world crude oil price not only did not soar, but fell sharply, and once fell to a barrel of dollars, to a record low in 97 years.

This fully shows that the increase or decrease in Iran's oil production has little to do with the rise and fall of world crude oil prices.

If his grandfather didn't know this, Guo Zhuocheng would naturally encourage his grandfather to build a new plan for the Bruce family, so that they could continue to invest in oil according to the previous plan. For them, they just need to enjoy the results, and there is no need to know the cause and effect.

But now my grandfather has a lot of facts, and he has also become suspicious of the second oil crisis, if he still encourages his grandfather to do this, my grandfather will definitely not listen to his words and never say anything about himself as before, and it is likely that because someone like him also discovered the inside story of the second oil crisis, other media will be exposed, so that the American oil capitalists will change their original intentions. In that case, the price of oil will fall, and the Bruce family will lose all their money? In the end, they will blame him for providing the wrong analysis report.

Guo Zhuocheng had no choice but to express some views in his previous life, saying that capitalists are all vampires, and they can abandon a conscience ‖ profits, these capitalists are powerful, and the US government is behind them, and they have a strong control over influential media, as long as the influential media in the world do not pierce this layer of paper, then this secret is a permanent secret, and a few small media cannot influence world public opinion. Powerful capitalists can also use their abundant capital to reduce the crude oil production of the world's major oil fields and buy up crude oil from other uncontrolled oil fields.

In short, they are more than capable of sustaining this scam!

In fact, in their previous lives, they did as Guo Shucheng said.

However, in the end, these oil capitalists still failed, and the reason why they failed was because they failed at the hands of the Soviet Union and China. When the price of crude oil in the world soared and there were rumors of scarcity of crude oil around the world, the Soviet Union and China in the previous life suddenly increased crude oil production.

China, which has high-quality and high-yield Daqing Oilfield and Shengli Oilfield, has become a major oil exporter in the world in a short period of time. And the Soviet Union was much more powerful, and the Soviet Union, which had the largest reserves in the world, greatly surprised the American capitalists:

The Soviet Union did not cause a sharp decline in oil production due to the rigidity of the system, aging equipment, and the Western embargo on oil production equipment imposed on the Soviet Union, as expected by the American oil capitalists, forcing the Soviet Union, a major exporter of crude oil, to turn to the world market to meet its own needs - to become a major importer of crude oil.

On the contrary, as Swedish analysts predicted, after a short period of difficulty, the Soviet Union, after carrying out "fundamental reforms" and taking some necessary "basic measures", such as changing the price of oil and reducing dependence on American drilling equipment, quickly filled the gap of world crude oil scarcity.

In addition, Africa increased its crude oil production with the help of the Soviet Union and China, and some Western countries in Europe acted on their own for their own interests and in disregard of the dissuasion of the United States, as a result, the oil crisis initiated by the American capitalists came to a hasty end.

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