Oil Glut, Wind Freeze, and Energy Policy in the Year Ahead

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This podcast was recorded connected Dec. 30, 2025.

Emily Flippen: Oil remains cheap, but authorities are progressively loud. We're breaking down the energy-related headlines investors whitethorn person missed and what 2026 tin look similar from present contiguous connected Motley Fool Money. Today is Tuesday, December 30th. Welcome to Motley Fool Money. I'm your host, Emily Flippen, and contiguous I'm joined by afloat analysts Jason Hall and Keith Speights to excavation into the latest vigor headlines, including the oversupply of oil, a pause, and offshore upwind vigor projects, and however vigor investors should beryllium feeling heading into the caller year. Now, implicit the past year, lipid prices person continued a beauteous important march down. There's lots, of course, antithetic ways to measurement lipid prices. But successful general, we tin accidental prices are broadly down astir 20% contiguous than they were astatine this constituent past year, mostly driven by concerns astir oversupply, evidently accumulation present successful the United States, but also, OPEC adding immoderate proviso points implicit the people of the past year. Jason, I cognize this is your industry, and it seems similar everyone is acrophobic of the oversupply of oil. It mightiness beryllium portion of the crushed wherefore vigor stocks person broadly underperformed the marketplace successful 2025, fixed the volatile quality of lipid prices. How bash you deliberation investors should beryllium reasoning astir the vigor assemblage arsenic an investment?