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Ben Ferguson: “Once you shut [the oil wells] in, that capacity never comes…”

Featuring: Ben Ferguson, Conservative | Talk Show Host | National

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I think people need to understand, like the point you're saying there, it's not like you can go, okay, we'll go over here and then drill and then we'll go get what we lost earlier in capacity. Like, like you said, Once you shut [the oil wells] in, that capacity never comes back. Yeah, you can reopen. It'll produce some, but it will produce at a much lower rate. All right. What happens to currency? Currency Collapse. Accelerant. The real has already cratered from 42,000 to. (15:34–15:38)

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Asserts that shutting in oil wells results in permanent loss of production capacity.

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