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Tr. Randy Brown

@SpotMonthEnergy

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44 years of O&G trading and marketing. "Janitor Emeritus" of the Energy Traders Hall of Fame.

Texas, USA
Joined August 2016
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@GuyDealership It's 1973. Me, married & in college. Have a 1yr old Toyota Corolla. A cyl heads cracks. I borrow $250 from bank to get it fixed. When ready, they say, "Pay $20." Really? Dealer said Toyota wanted to see what happened. Toyota paid all but $20. Reason I drive Toyotas to this day
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@SpotMonthEnergy
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@chinesegon The old rule of thumb in any oil and gas related business is this: "Never make fun of the ugliest person in the company because the CEO is probably banging him/her on the side..."
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@ClayTravis "Car-Henge" in Nebraska
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The economy’s so bad, Exxon-Mobil laid off 15 Congressmen. #OOTT
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@fuzzymittens Another person and I paid $249.00 for an economically challenged senior girl's prom dress yesterday. She made a deal with us to do volunteer work at her high school to pay back the debt and will get $35.00 credit against the cost of the dress for each hour she volunteers.
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@TikTokInvestors Dave's been bankrupt too. Ultimately, that's what made him a millionaire.
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1 year
@barstoolsports In Lubbock, at Texas Tech, the word "viral" is pronounced as "varl". As in, "I seen her pitcher went varl...."
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2 years
@proetrie Back when I was dating/courting, if the events of the evening caused me a late stay at the residence object of the lady of my interest, her parents would attach the bundling board to her bed so that I could stay the night. No 3 date nights back in those days
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@SpotMonthEnergy
Tr. Randy Brown
6 years
@eloquENT_1908 @odil_ken @joelconnelly @NBCNews Dole was machine gunned by German troops in Italy and nearly died of the wounds therefrom. Bush's dive bomber was shot out of a Pacific sky by the Japanese armed forces. Public service can be brutal politically but not THAT brutal in the great scheme of things.
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3 months
@the_transit_guy Where do the 20 + residents' cars park on the street that was primarily single family homes? Have the residents on the street agreed to the new single lot = 20 resident idea?
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4 years
Energy trader walks into a New Orleans bar and says, "Give me 2 Hurricanes and a Corona......" Bartender says, "OK....That'll be $20.20...." #OOTT #joke_I_heard_today
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@SpotMonthEnergy
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@FightHaven When their HOA sees that video there could be trouble.
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@nytimes Person who videoed crack took it to park people. Showed them. Park people didn't do anything immediately. Videographer took video to fire department. Ride shut down.
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@SpotMonthEnergy
Tr. Randy Brown
3 years
If you have any 30 year old oil or gas traders on your team, they were 16 years old when SemGroup blew up due to some poor oil trading skills. It may be time to teach that risk management history lesson to the new generation of Top Gun oil trading professionals. #OOTT
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@SpotMonthEnergy
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3 years
My personal theory is that "west Texas" really starts where you see the first "Allsup's" C-store and gas station.
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@SpotMonthEnergy
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8 months
@chaircounter @3YearLetterman @Jeremy_MacKenzi 1. Doesn't want to "bother with it." 2. Bothers with it.
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@SpotMonthEnergy
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3 years
@chigrl "Nearly 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide were injected into the stratosphere in Pinatubo's 1991 eruptions, and dispersal of this gas cloud around the world caused global temperatures to drop temporarily (1991 through 1993) by about 1°F (0.5°C). "
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4 years
Four hours can be a lifetime in an oil trading day #OOTT
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3 years
Trafigura and Vitol traders don't have this problem #OOTT
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@Nallysmom Tell him to contact his state rep and state senator (with the info you shared here). I used to work for a state senator in Texas long ago and every time he received a request for help in such cases he had all staff contact his business contacts who were often quite glad to help.
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@SpotMonthEnergy
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3 years
@JavierBlas I don't want to alarm anyone but here's the seasonality chart that goes along with what you said #OOTT
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@investmattallen Everyone wanted Enron at $50/shr but they didn't want it at $0.50/shr for some reason
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@SpotMonthEnergy
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3 years
@njess @MarkTomasovic Oil trader here. Dimples on those ball create a thin turbulent boundary layer of air that clings to the ball's surface. This allows the smoothly flowing air to follow the ball's surface a little farther around the back side of the ball, thereby decreasing the size of the wake.
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Tr. Randy Brown
5 years
The thought just hit me ( it didn't hurt) that if Mobil, Oxy and Enron had merged into one company 20 years ago it would have been called "Oxymoron". #OOTT #natgas #deepthoughtsafteragoodday
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@SpotMonthEnergy
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1 year
@RonFilipkowski Flat earthers lunar eclipse
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3 years
Some of the WTI chatroom "regulars" starting to use "just like 2014" - a reference to the oil price collapse in 2014- now. They appear to believe "the top" is in #OOTT . I'm not feeling it. 2014 was a different set up. Gambling intraday on WTI scalps isn't big on prior history.
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Tr. Randy Brown
4 years
Checked the Union Pacific "Davidson Yard" in Ft. Worth, TX, yesterday to see what sort of train traffic there was and took this pic (looking east) of a mile's worth of UP engines sitting idle. #OOTT
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Tr. Randy Brown
4 years
Friend is trying to sell a $375,000 house in an nice historical neighborhood of Ft. Worth, TX, since October, 2019. Chatted with him last night and he said that the house is showing more now but the bids are about 65% of what he's asking. #OOTT
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@SpotMonthEnergy
Tr. Randy Brown
2 years
"You may lose your wife, you may lose your dog, your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that your NG futures position is in line with the direction of the gap on the open of the new week of trading...."
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2 years
@JamesRForsyth14 @chigrl Catalytic cracking units generate more refined products & the difference between the value of the "cracked" refined products & the oil it came from is the crack spread. If you named your intramural softball team "The Crack Spreaders" in Galena Park, TX, no Baptist would complain.
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Tr. Randy Brown
4 months
@griswold The old oil and gas guy said, "If your CFO has a low handicap that CFO he or she is playing too much golf. If your CFO has a high handicap, that CFO is not playing corporate golf enough."
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@SpotMonthEnergy
Tr. Randy Brown
4 years
I think traders of oil should have a "Tr." in front of their name, like a doctor (Dr.) of anything. #OOTT Sincerely, Tr. Randy Brown
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@SpotMonthEnergy
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4 years
From a 1986 trading course #OOTT
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4 years
Was just banned from the WTI chatroom for telling this joke: "North Koreans arrested some surfers for not social distancing. North Koreans said they were going to hang 10." #OOTT I regret that I just have one joke to give for the community.
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@SpotMonthEnergy
Tr. Randy Brown
3 years
@EftSerious Been there; done that. When people call you to ask "What happened?" tell them you can't talk about it unless it's part of a job interview in person. Then wait for all the job interview requests you'll get. Competitors always want an inside look .... and there you are.
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It had to be made #OOTT
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3 years
$8 rally in last hour #OOTT after $8 drop prior. Having fun?
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4 years
If you get a chance, watch Barry Diller's comments on CBS "Face the Nation" this morning. #OOTT #FinTwit
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Tr. Randy Brown
3 years
I don't want to alarm any of my WTI trading bros or brochettes #OOTT but guess what was happening....oddly... to WTI prices during the week of February 11, 2008 ? (see arrow on chart from 14 years ago)
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@SpotMonthEnergy
Tr. Randy Brown
4 years
Because I didn't start out as an oil trader for Salomon or J.Aron in 1980, I had to teach myself as much as possible on the technical side of energy trading. I kept every article on systems, analysis tricks and money mgt I found. It's at 3,000 pages now #OOTT . Digitizing!
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@sebastian_lk You described a friend of mine's tale yesterday. He was hospitalized with Covid for a week. Then 3 weeks home alone. Now he says he has a hard time walking a block without being exhausted & when driving he will get lost for 20 or 30 minutes but will then remember his way home.
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@SpotMonthEnergy
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@PIC_Colleen Before 9-11, I saw 2 military aged guys with high and tight haircuts go out a "No Exit" in DFW airport door, yelling about getting a jet outside to wait on them. Jet was all white, no numbers or other markings. Alarm went off and a custodian came over and shut off the alarm.
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Tr. Randy Brown
4 years
@ncwhm As soon as this damn virus lockdown is over I am headed up to see you and the folks (and art) at the museum. Your tweet made my morning and I need one of them cups!
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@3YearLetterman These coaches delivered for Minnesota as I recall
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@VCBrags @TrungTPhan I don't know if "kahunas" is the Hawaiian word for the Spanish word "cojones"
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@SpotMonthEnergy
Tr. Randy Brown
10 months
@saintmufc @DailyLoud Easy 20 mil..Check what the accident lawyers are getting for traumatic brain injuries:
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Tr. Randy Brown
3 years
I was training a speculator last night on my simple energy trading decision simulator. We were doing WTI in 2008. When oil went over 96 to 105 he wanted to exit his earlier long. Why? "It's too high". Then the price went to $144. Trade what you see, not what you "feel". #OOTT
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@SpotMonthEnergy
Tr. Randy Brown
2 years
@GuyDealership The Jeeps and Porsche hold their value because they don't get driven as often due to being in the shop so much for whatever reason.
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@SpotMonthEnergy
Tr. Randy Brown
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@calvinfroedge I have heard "Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz " almost every year for the last 44 that I have toiled in the energy trading vineyards. The odds of the Dallas Cowboys winning another Superbowl -after the last one in 1996- are vastly greater than a Hormuz closing. #OOTT
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@SpotMonthEnergy
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4 years
@chigrl Canadian authorities trying to capture @chigrl to send her to Chicago
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3 years
In Lubbock tonight. Drove from Ft. Worth. Wind turbines windmilling. Pumpjacks pumpjacking. Abilene Hooter's was packed about 5:30pm. Saw several truckloads of pipe headed west on I-20. Many vehicles with paper plates. Stimmy at work I suppose #OOTT Pic near Snyder, TX earlier
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3 years
I don't want to alarm any of my nat gas trading breauxs or breauchettes but in Feb of 2014, the monthly high for spot HH NG was 6.493 so............ #OOTT
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3 years
@wakefield00 Harvard has been involved in making celebrities out of CEOs decades ago. LinkedIn is a channel to create "self-celebrity" for the rank and file these days. Just an observation.
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@SpotMonthEnergy
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6 years
That feeling when you think you have something important to say via Twitter about the WTI market but it's 5:10 am and you're one of the few people up even thinking about it #OOTT
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First 2-week paycheck when I was married and just out of college and in "training" to be a retail rep for a gasoline refiner/ marketer. It was a couple of years after the Arab embargo of oil to the US. It has been a long, long road from the days of that paycheck #OOTT
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Many of you young chickens weren't trading oil in 2008-2009...you were attending keggers and texting images of yourselves to each other while this was happening. The years GS supposedly referred to a while ago #OOTT
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Tr. Randy Brown
4 years
In 2006 my midstream employer sold the company and all but one of us had to find new jobs. After being cast out, my BMO connection told me he had "briefly thought about hiring me..". I thought about him briefly today. #OOTT
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Just visited with a neighbor who is a petroleum engineer for a small E&P company in the DFW area. He reported that the his employer's bank sent them all a report suggesting WTI could drop to a $16/bbl handle. #OOTT
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3 years
Some idiot in the WTI chatroom thinks that if WTI continues to fall dramatically in a curve-like fashion that there is a chance "time" (in the sense of physics) could literally be reversed. #OOTT
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4 years
Only energy professionals of a certain age will get this joke #OOTT
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Frank's in Chicago & called a cab. Cab shows up & drives Frank to a club. Frank asks driver, "What's the biggest tip you ever got?" Driver says "$50 a while back". Frank hands him $100. Franks asks, "Who gave you the $50?". Driver says, "You did, Mr. Sinatra." #FrankSinatra
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If your energy trading year wasn't as good as you hoped it would be, be inspired for 2022 by these famous words #OOTT
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@FauxRight I opened a talk to a finance class w/this joke: "Two Harvard finance profs are walking. One looks down & sees a $20 bill. He says to the other, "Look! There's a $20 bill!" The other prof says, "Impossible. In an efficient mkt it would've already been found." Crickets. #OOTT
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@RudyHavenstein @texasteaCL True story: Was working way through college with wife's help in 1975. Bought a sofa on credit at JCP. Paid about $12/mo. Ten months into the deal got a letter from JCP. Said we weren't their type of customer. Canceled credit and told us to pay off sofa. Karma is a bitch. LOL
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10 months
I don't want to alarm any of my oil trading bros and brochettes but the Dec2023 WTI price is way below it's 100 day "mean avg" by about 3 standard deviations and I am told such a condition raises concerns among statistical people and winners of the Fields Medal. #OOTT
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3 years
@Samir_Madani I don't think they "hope" for $200/bbl oil......I think they "warn" of $200 oil.
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4 years
Props to @Samir_Madani for his sharing crude oil "spider senses" this morning #OOTT
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3 years
@matthewesp Ha......."cars"............
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I wonder if Gulf Coast state residents east of Houston and along the eastern seaboard of the US are wondering this morning, "Maybe I should go get the car filled up?" #OOTT
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3 years
Found at a Ft. Worth flea market today #OOTT
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I don't want to alarm oil trading bros / brochettes but here is a 100 week, 2 stan dev channel either side of the 100 week "mean" with a possible upper price risk target so many have been asking about/for #OOTT . Risk mgrs are wondering about it too I bet. Risk both ways is shown
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4 years
From the Geezer Oil Trader in Houston, #OOTT
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4 years
@Samir_Madani I was told that at Baton Rouge, a new hire at the refinery was given a Bic lighter and told to climb the ladder on the pipe to ignite the flare. As they got about 12 rungs up, everyone would start laughing and tell them to come down. #OOTT
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4 years
I asked my Energy Transfer contact where to go to shelter when it's 100 F in Houston and he told me that he was told the Enron building was pretty shady. #OOTT
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4 years
@HayekAndKeynes Because not all heroes wear capex. #OOTT
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2 years
Shell is still trying to find a "Jr. Gas Trader" in Houston #OOTT . Maybe it's because of the "track record of producing $3m of PNL annually"? That begs the question: Could Shell be accidentally using the Roman numeral "M" for thousand instead of "MM" for million?
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@Samir_Madani My dad always said to me, “Work until your bank account looks like a phone number” so I did. Account balance: $9.11.
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@EnronChairman 2 traders golfing. Play is slowed by 2 ladies ahead of them. "Why don't you go ask if we can play through?" says one to the other. Trader goes - comes back says I cant: 1 is my wife and the other is my mistress! Other trader says I'll try. Soon comes back saying, "Small world".
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5 years
Waiting for all the "B-b-b-but the Saudis need $100/bbl for their social programs!!" to be seen soon #OOTT
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4 years
@zerohedge @CrushCityTrader One night at JPM's gold desk, the Devil appears: "You want to be rich from trading gold?" Devil asks. "I will grant that wish. You'll be famous & wealthy gold traders. You will make $2B, but have to pay a $1B fine & give me your souls." JPM guy says, "But what's the catch?"
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6 years
1st oil guy: "I'm a truck driver in the Permian and make $140k...." 2nd oil guy: "I'm a production accounting manager and I don't make that!!" 1st oil guy: "That why I quit being a production accounting manager and started driving a truck." #OOTT
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32 year old small quill ostrich boots (round toe) worn for a bidness meeting in Fort Worth today.
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1 year
@TurnerNovak Dude will be a billionaire soon if he makes his coffee at home.
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@Lifeinvestmoney Tell Smuckers you'll sue them if they don't get you out of that jam.
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Your WTI price has been a little volatile this evening #OOTT
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