People are worried about oil stock buybacks
Here is a theory you could have:
 
- The world runs on oil right now, demand for oil is high, the price of oil is high, and getting oil out of the ground is lucrative.
 
- In X years — pick a number — the world will not run on oil, because the environmental effects of burning oil are bad, and eventually, through some combination of better green-energy technology, consumer demand and government regulation, the world will stop burning oil.
 
- Therefore the oil-drilling business will produce a series of cash flows that is large now and will, ...
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