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Crude oil prices will go the way of ‘whale oil’ as demand has peaked, says ARK’s Cathie Wood 

Crude oil prices will go the way of ‘whale oil’ as demand has peaked, says ARK’s Cathie Wood

Rising crude oil prices are a factor of supply rather than demand, she says

An old building of a British shipping base, which was consumed by a mudslide sparked by a volcano, crumbles at Whalers Bay in Deception Island, in the western Antarctica peninsula on March 06, 2016. In 1912 the Hektor Whaling Company was issued with a license to establish a shore-based whaling station. Approximately 150 people worked at the station during the austral summer, producing over 140,000 barrels of whale oil.

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Much like the whale oil trade at its peak in the mid 1800s, crude oil prices have probably topped.

That’s according to Cathie Wood, founder and CEO of Ark Investment Management, who spoke of a coming peak in crude oil prices due to the arrival of electric vehicles (EV), in a series of tweets late Thursday.

Citing U.S. Energy Information Administration data, the investment manager said global oil demand peaked at 101 million barrels per day (mbd) in 2019, dropped to 92 mbd during the coronavirus in 2020, and has since rebounded to 97 mbd in 2021. “Based on our forecast for EV sales, @ARKInvest believes that oil demand has peaked,” Wood said.

ARK has predicted that EV sales will rise roughly 20-fold from around 2.2 million in 2020 to 40 million units in 2025, and industry heavyweight Tesla TSLA, 1.54% is the biggest holding in the flagship ARK Innovation exchange-traded fund ARKK, 1.04%. She also pointed to pension funds who are demanding oil companies reduce capital spending while Wall Street banks are denying them money for fracking, as OPEC is “holding the line on supply”.

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