Brandon Aceto
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2,197 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 3 Jun
Brandon Aceto’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I thought Iran controlled the Strait of Hormuz.
Well, it's a big deal because we got to go back to 2022, first of all.
Where this really comes from is when OPEC announced in 2022 as oil prices came down off the top, OPEC decided they wanted $100 per barrel oil.
They wanted that forever into the future.
And they thought, well, okay, we'll cut some supply back and get oil prices to firm up.
And then, you know, the global economy will pick up and we'll be $100 per barrel oil forever forward.
Well, they made a huge mistake there because the economy never really came back, and oil prices were soft the entire time.
So the UAE and all the other OPEC members were losing money for years because they were trying to reduce production but maintain price so revenues would largely normalize out and balance out.
But instead what ended up happening is with oil prices softening and pumping less oil,
A lot of these Gulf states are in big trouble.
Saudi Arabia is a big one.
So the UAE is finally saying, look, we need to correct this mistake.
You guys bet on the wrong horse here.
And we don't want to be beholden to the Saudis for continuing to make these decisions, especially if they're going to go in the wrong direction.
So UAE, which has always had a rivalry with Saudi Arabia to begin with, what they're saying is, look, this is it.
This is the last straw.
We're done.
We don't want to be beholden to the OPEC cartel who has all sorts of non-economic reasons for whatever decisions they make.
We'd like to just pump more oil.
We want more money flowing into the country.
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