Originally posted by jamesbrown
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Oil News: Shale Drillers Slash Spending by 50% -- The Motley Fool
The 80 dollars is the operational cost plus paying back the original investment.
$80 is the barrier for new investment
$30 dollars is the barrier where the oil producer goes bankrupt within weeks.
At 80$ a barrel shares go up and up
At 60$ a barrel shares cease to go up and shareholders refuse to put more money in but the company can pay it's loans off
At 30$ a barrel eventually they go bankrupt.
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