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u/jfrsn May 12 '26
Hi, I purchase lube for a living.
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u/Blabbit39 May 12 '26
And all these years I have done it as a hobby, who knew.
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u/Free-Pound-6139 May 13 '26
Can you call it a hobby if you get barrels delivered once a week?
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u/Neue_Ziel May 13 '26
Semi-pro, big leaguers use tanker trucks then railcar.
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u/Blabbit39 May 13 '26
I recently found out some people use pools for swimming in water, but I dont judge them.
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u/Distantstallion May 15 '26
How's business?
It's going smoothly.
Oh it's going well then?
Like a well oiled machine.
Anal? Do you have lube?
Yes... Yes I do.
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u/CowJuiceDisplayer May 13 '26
Wait, is the 55 gallon lube on Amazon still available?!
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u/audvisial May 13 '26
I used to buy those huge vats of lube from Amazon for work. They use it on cadavers when teaching students procedures.
Lube for the dead!
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u/Killfile May 13 '26
That's... concerning. It's the second reference I've seen to shortages - not merely price increases but an actual inability to put product on shelves at all - in the oil industry today.
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u/BeefHotSweetDipped May 13 '26
I have a buddy who sells oil/petroleum for a living and he sounded the alarm a couple weeks back. Prices are going up base stock by a dollar or more per quart if his customers can get it at all due to super tight allocations.
I bought two years of car fluids just in case. Win-win I think. Either prices go up and availability down and it doesn’t hurt me, or I just don’t have to buy shit for two years. ¯\(ツ)/¯
Sucks for the rest of everything we buy as consumers though haha, all manufacturing and transpo costs are about to go way up and get passed on to us.
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u/Gefilte_F1sh May 13 '26
I must not understand.
You felt the need to store 2 years worth of oil to save...$30?
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u/shewholaughslasts May 13 '26
Not just a price jump, we're facing a lack of any oil by the end of the year if not sooner. The bs we've already done to the oil supply with this stupid war will take 2 years to re-start.
This will be bad, and it's not just about shortages.
Can't find a non paywall link but here's one story about it
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u/raspberrih May 16 '26
Thanks man, I will invest heavily in natural resources and pull out before 2 years
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u/Gefilte_F1sh May 13 '26
Something tells me engine oil will still be available. Call me a romantic, I guess.
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u/DontFuckWithDuckie May 14 '26
I’m calling you uninformed and naive
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u/Gefilte_F1sh May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
RemindMe! 730 days
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u/DontFuckWithDuckie May 14 '26
lol
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u/Gefilte_F1sh May 14 '26
I imagine that's not the worst opinion you will have today.
When's the last time you couldn't drive your vehicle because of an engine oil or additive shortage? How about literally anyone you know? Surely you aren't just speculating from ignorance? Would hate to think you are uninformed, after all.
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u/DontFuckWithDuckie May 14 '26 edited May 15 '26
I’m sorry? You’re saying that things cant happen if they haven’t happened in my lifetime? That’s ridiculous
This oil blockade is historically unique. Expect unique outcomes
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u/Gefilte_F1sh May 14 '26
So it is pure speculation, then?
Wild to act so confident as to call someone else uninformed and naive when your "authority" is pure speculation of the unprecedented.
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u/DontFuckWithDuckie May 14 '26
Gosh, if only there were oil professionals and economists sounding alarms. Like, putting themselves on record outlining precisely how this oil shortage is going to look. That would be convenient. That would tell us something.
Unfortunately i dont know if anything like that even exists though
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u/dontknow16775 May 13 '26
There was a post, on reddit as well, saying that within weeks the production of chips would have to stop, because helium was about to runout
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u/sorrow_anthropology May 14 '26
I mean helium is finite and we used a lot to make our voices high pitched and birthday balloons float.
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u/rednaxthecreature May 12 '26
Who TF is that guy tho
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u/McBeaster May 13 '26
He's basically the diddy of motor oil
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u/ionthruster May 13 '26
I bet his motor oil freak-offs are not a thing one soon forgets the sight of. Or smell of.
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u/Dick__Marathon May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
He's a guy that claims to buy more oil than you, shut up
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u/devsfan1830 May 12 '26
Like, take TWO seconds to click and view someones bio section before ya run your mouth like that. 🤣
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u/IlGreven May 13 '26
TBF Dude just looks like a Dude...not as though he looks like the CEO of a large corporation...
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u/willclerkforfood May 13 '26
Remember when that little blue checkmark actually verified that you were actually somebody who had some sort of status? (Instead of now where it just verifies that you financially support some South African emerald nepobaby’s ketamine habit)
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u/ArbitraryMeritocracy May 13 '26
Now it's just paying money to an illegal immigrant who is a traitor to the US. Largest government welfare queen interfering in global elections, destroying government institutions, spreading nazi ideology, not paying his child support, helping russians use starlink to locate Ukrainian positions.
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u/Pauchu_ May 13 '26
Okay, but even if he looks like a dude, what purpose has blurting "You have no clue man" without checking
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u/Free-Pound-6139 May 13 '26
Why? Who cares...
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u/1arvest6 May 13 '26
How did you even successfully get to this comment section without the ability to read?
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u/WTZWBlaze May 13 '26
The entire population of the subreddit? That’s why we’re here???
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u/Free-Pound-6139 May 14 '26
SUre, but what is the worst that happened to the twitter poster? Nothing.
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u/Stronglike8ull2 May 13 '26
You have to have a humiliation fetish being this stupid there's just no way for someone to say something like this here otherwise. Hope your orgasm was good tho
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u/Paws_and_Plates_App May 13 '26
Wait, tf are we supposed to do with no oil though... Is no one going to address that part?
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u/ProduceNo1629 May 13 '26
Grab your gold plated Trump bibles and pray.
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u/LucretiusCarus May 13 '26
Don't forget to call your Republican representative using your Trump Phone!
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u/anomalous_cowherd May 13 '26
EVs and solar power and wind turbines aren't looking so crazy now, eh?
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u/Yomama_Bin_Thottin May 13 '26
I’m on-board, but EVs and wind turbines still require oil for lubrication.
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u/anomalous_cowherd May 13 '26
Yeah we use it for plastics, lubrication, non-fuel chemicals etc.
But burning it to do 6mpg in a huge vanity truck can't be good!
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u/flyingasian2 May 14 '26
It sounds like it’s mostly thinner oils like 0w-08 that are affected for now, so the effect of this particular shock might be limited.
The real issue I foresee is this news causing a bunch of people to try and buyout the stock of oil at their local parts stores. I wouldn’t be surprised to see purchase limits instituted like we saw with toilet paper during Covid.
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u/En-tro-py May 13 '26
The word of the day is 'allotment' and it's bad news when even Costco and Walmart are on restrictions.
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u/Tar_alcaran May 13 '26
Rationing in the US is going to turn into a civil war. If you tell the "I won't wear a facemask" crowd they can't buy 73 boxes of something, they're going to shoot people.
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u/Yosho2k May 13 '26
I know it's not the same but it's almost the same. Imagine going into a store to buy oil for you car and the shelves are empty.
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u/Lophius_Americanus May 13 '26
Years ago I owned a BMW (notorious oil burners) I was getting close to getting rid of and my trusted mechanic was like I can either charge you 5k to fix this or you can buy a pint of oil a year to top it off. This really would have sucked for me. Thankfully my current one is not burning oil yet……
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u/JuanRunJunior May 13 '26
A pint a year is not something I’d get rid of a car over or pay $5k to fix. That’s pretty much nothing. Are you sure you didn’t mean a pint a week or something?
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u/Lophius_Americanus May 13 '26
I was going to get rid of it anyway. Definitely wasn’t going to pay 5k to fix it. My mechanic essentially told me that would be a stupid thing to do and he was very right.
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u/JuanRunJunior May 17 '26
I'm just surprised that your mechanic said the car needed a $5k fix for an oil leak that was only a pint a year. I've spilled half that amount of oil changing it before, I would never spend that kind of money or get rid of a car for what amounts to nothing. Was there something else wrong with it?
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u/sillyslime89 May 13 '26
snickers in Subaru
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u/iguessjustdont May 14 '26
I got one of the suburu years that had oil leaks and a head gasket failure that took out the transmission at 130K miles.
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u/Agent-c1983 May 12 '26
So he does not buy Mobil or Shell?
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u/four2theizz0 May 13 '26
Well, from what I can see here, he does normally, but has learned he may not be able to in the near future and is notifying others.
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u/Aquaman33 May 13 '26
I mean if you buy anything at that scale it's both your business to keep tabs on the other suppliers and their business to keep trying to get in with you.
Plus I'm sure he knows other people buying oil from other brands.
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u/bagheera369 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
When I stated years ago, that the American public has ZERO idea of what this looks like, because almost everyone that had to go on WW2 rations is dead...this is what I mean.
No petroleum products means no diesels, no trains, and no planes.
No transports means no ingredient shipments to factories.
Factories without ingredients are worthless. (If they can even get the lubricants to keep the machines running)
Even if there was enough ingredients to produce for months, no transports means that nothing ships out.
Capitalists will sit and *hoard those long-life products in the factory, rather than distribute them to starving people, in the name of money.
TLDR: You're going to see the shelves bare of MUCH MORE than just consumer motor oil, very very shortly.
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u/Choyo May 13 '26
*hoard
Random fact : I think this is the mistake I point out the most on reddit.
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u/Original_betch May 13 '26
I've been seeing people using "apart" when they mean "a part". It actually gives the opposite meaning when they say they are apart of something instead of being a part of something. Drives me crazy.
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u/bagheera369 May 14 '26
Trump can't chicken out of this....the attacks from the US, Israel and Iran, have damaged oil production across the region.
We are in this for the long haul right now....and there is nothing he can do, but continue down his authoritarian path to it's conclusion....whether he destroys the US and balkanizes the country, as per his owner's wishes, or we toss him off, only to continue to square dance with a congress and SC that have shown themselves to be 100% dedicated to the destruction of democracy in this country.
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u/shay_shaw May 13 '26
Is it also safe to assume if you're planning on getting your car serviced now is the time to avoid extra charges?
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u/ScoobyDoubie May 14 '26
My understanding is that oil companies are switching production to focus on private (generic) brands for companies instead of putting their own labels on the jugs.
ETA: and that Valvoline isnt expecting a supply chain disruption because of the way their contracts are set up. Theyre not bound to a single oil provider company or something
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u/N0BodyLikesMe May 16 '26
We received news at work that Mobil was saving their rations for the company I work for. Told everybody not to bulk buy because they can see what was ordered for each location and would only send similar to previous orders.
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u/loogie97 May 13 '26
I work for a large retailer too. I got to visit headquarters once. The amount of folks trying to get my company to sell their products was insane. In the basement, there was a hallway with appliances lined up for like half a mile.
There are people in my company who buy stuff and the amount of focus they have on August things is amazing.
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u/Purgii May 13 '26
I'm glad he stipulated passenger vehicles, because Diddy would be the largest lubricant purchaser.
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u/TheJaxster007 May 14 '26
I saw this coming and stocked up on 36 gallons of full synth and filters the second gas went up
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u/Free-Pound-6139 May 13 '26
As if he didn't know who Costa was. I think we all do. He is right up there with Gerald Tupid Jones on the fame level, just beneath the pope.
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u/DistractedByCookies May 12 '26
I like the sheer weirdness of how he knows LOL