# Peak oil storage **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2020, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peak-oil-storage/850660 "2020-03-30T12:08:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peak-oil-storage/850660/1 "2020-03-30T12:08:52Z")
(Not sure which forum this belongs in. I ask questions, but I don’t really expect answers, so probably not GQ.) > [@](#): > > “Amid the worldwide lockdowns, storage capacity is filling fast and may soon run out unless there is an urgent supply cut.” From [here](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/oil-falls-amid-saudi-arabia-russia-price-war-coronavirus-hits-demand.html). This is talking about oil storage. What happens if they fill it all up? And then fill all the tankers (ships)? This is a problem caused by Saudi Arabia opening the taps and pumping as much oil as they can. And Russia is doing the same. Demand is way down because of the epidemic. A triple whammy to the oil market. Shale oil production (fracking) companies are going to go bankrupt and Canadian tar sand production is already in severe decline (and I’m not going to shed a single tear for either) and undoubtedly other high cost sources will stop pumping. But what’s Aramco going to do when they have no more empty oil tankers to fill up? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peak-oil-storage/850660/2 "2020-03-30T12:11:50Z")
Uhhh…stop pumping? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peak-oil-storage/850660/3 "2020-03-30T12:19:06Z")
Nah, that’d be way too obvious a tactic. Maybe they’ll find a depression in the desert and fill it up with crude. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peak-oil-storage/850660/4 "2020-03-30T12:21:22Z")
One word: Plastic. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peak-oil-storage/850660/5 "2020-03-30T13:02:50Z")
Dump it outside of the environment ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peak-oil-storage/850660/6 "2020-03-30T13:20:33Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Dump it outside of the environment Is this a “the front fell off” reference? ---
**Author:** ![2Bits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e95f7d/32.png) [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peak-oil-storage/850660/7 "2020-03-30T13:24:14Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > Nah, that’d be way too obvious a tactic. Maybe they’ll find a depression in the desert and fill it up with crude. “Depression In the Desert” You’ve nailed it! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peak-oil-storage/850660/8 "2020-03-30T13:55:49Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Dump it outside of the environment > [@Telemark](#): > > Is this a “the front fell off” reference? I knew that I knew that from somewhere.