How long with these low prices last and what will happen to end them? Oil producing countries, especially small ones are really hurting. Most of their budgets were predicated on $100/barrel oil. Prices changing this drastically will surely come to an end badly sooner or later.
So I don't think anyone how low it will go, when they stop falling I believe they will rise quickly. As for the small countries hurting, who cares Venezuela just about six years ago paying 15 cents at the pump while I was paying almost 4 bucks a gallon in South Florida I remember them reveling in the idea Americans were so stupid buying there over inflated oil. We saw the greatest redistribution of wealth if you remember we were importing so much oil in exchange for all of our dollars. It's cyclical that all that's going on here and will continue until he have sucked every last drop from the ground. In the end it will be all to familiar and painful as we have switched back to buying the biggest pickups, tractors and every other oil consuming product we can including myself.