Why oil is cheap; what does it mean?

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Originally Posted by oil pan 4

Did you hear the idiot in charged agreed to pay Iran $5 billion dollars to abandon their nuclear program?

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If Iran is good, we will eventually give them about 12 trillion total.

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I'd be willing to abandon my nuclear program for far less.

Where did the $5,000,000,000 come from? We already have -$18,000,000,000,000

I am quite curious how they would explain that, perhaps that it would create jobs, stimulate the economy, or strengthen our educational system. Or perhaps it would generate a paradigm shift, enabling synergistic methodology to focus our wavelength of unicorn farts.