We've Reached the Tipping Point

"Shocking Secret Behind the 'World's Greatest Investor'" It's a matter of public record that the "world's greatest investor" made over $10 billion off the 2008 financial crisis. But what most Americans don't know is how he did it. Forget value investing, buying shares of Coke or anything else reported in the mainstream press. He made his real money exploiting an 80-year-old mysterious "dividend program" designed for elite executives... You've never seen anything like this. We've just uncovered this incredible story... Click here for full details. Thursday, May 15, 2014 | Issue #2292 The Oil Boom Has Reached a Tipping Point Sean Brodrick, Resource Strategist, The Oxford Club The tsunami of U.S. petroleum production has been underway for several years, but last month it reached a tipping point. Global oil production plunged in March thanks to steeply lower OPEC output... while America's production soared to a 26-year high. This massive shift in energy supply has huge implications for your portfolio. Consider... "It's enormous, enormous! That's more than some OPEC countries!" The Bakken Shale... The Marcellus Formation... Eagle Ford... These huge oil and gas deposits are helping to make America the world's #1 energy producer. But now there's a new find... One larger than all three of those, combined. And one man's invention is going to help hundreds of people get very rich off of this development. Find out how right here. Our Exports Are Now Double Our Imports U.S. exports of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products jumped to a record 4.3 million barrels per day (bpd) at the end of last year, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). That's more than twice the 2.1 million bpd of petroleum products that the U.S. imported. As a result, total U.S. net imports of energy declined last year to their lowest level in more than 20 years! In fact, total energy imports fell a whopping 9% last year alone. Thanks to hydraulic fracturing, U.S. oil production set a 26-year record in April, averaging 8.3 million bpd. Fracking has reversed a 40-year decline in crude oil output in just 5 1/2 years. And it's nowhere near over. The EIA forecasts that the U.S. is on track to produce an average 9.2 million bpd in 2015. That's 11% more than our most productive month since 1988. That's average monthly projection for the entire year. And if the rate of growth stays the same, we could be producing closer to 10 million bpd by the end of 2015. And guess who's going in the other direction? China's Thirst for Oil Is Growing China's daily use of crude oil shot to a new record in April. That means China had to import more oil - about 6.81 million bpd - last month. We don't sell China a lot of oil... yet. America sold China a total of 47.3 million barrels of oil last year, according to EIA data. But that was a jump of nearly 200% in just five years. There are some safe ways to play the oil boom. For example, the Market Vectors Oil Services ETF (NYSE: OIH) and the SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Exploration & Production ETF (NYSE: XOP) are up 17% and 24%, respectively, the last 12 months. But the biggest profit opportunities will come from select refiners, energy producers and oil services companies. David Fessler and I have alerted our Oxford Resource Explorer subscribers to seven must-own energy companies, and we're about to add two more. (Learn how to join us by clicking here.) America will be an energy superpower in the 21st century. You'd better come along for the ride, or get left in the dust. 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