Short Summary
As seen on Reddit!
Apparently the price of crude oil futures went negative for May. The industry is running out of space to store oil. Drills are being shut down. What would Dennis and the gang do if they were here? Buy a freaking tanker, buy the oil, store it, and resell it after this all blows over is what!
Inspired by a real post on the internet: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comment...
We're going to crowdsource the funding of an Oil Tanker, fill it with 36,732.48 barrels worth of crude oil, and then repackage it to everyone who chipped in AND maybe resell what's leftover for a new Prius.
How will this save the ocean you ask? Let's be real here, it's pretty simple to "accidentally" dump oil you can't store. Don't kid yourself.
What We Need & What You Get
Break it down for folks in more detail:
- We'll need to buy an oil tanker (looking at this one)
- We'll need some crew (probably 10?)
- We'll need to buy oil containers when we ship these off to backers/supporters
- We'll need money to buy food for the duration of camping on the tanker
The Impact
Feel free to explain more about your campaign and let people know the difference their contribution will make:
- You'll be supporting the internet and funding an entertainment source for at least three weeks until a new video about cats appears
Risks & Challenges
People value your transparency. Be open and stand out by providing insight into the risks and obstacles you may face on the way to achieving your goal.
- The tanker explodes and we lose everything and probably half of Florida.
- The oil expires.
- No one buys our oil.
- We can't find enough oil containers to send to our funders.
- Someone named Joe comes by and asks us to remove his/her/xers name from our reward tiers.
- We get attacked by pirates.
- We get killed by pirates.
- Pirates take over.
- Our oil ends up being cut with sugar.
- We get shut down by some government authority.
- We get a reverse bailout.
- We lose our passwords to something important.
- We forget to put gas in the tanker.
- We run out of gas in the middle of the ocean.
- We run out of internet.
- Steve smokes a cigarette in an area specifically stating "No Steve's can smoke here"
- We can't get any chicken tendies to be delivered.
Other Ways You Can Help
Some people just can't contribute, but that doesn't mean they can't help:
- Share this initiative to all of your friends. All. Of. Them.
And that's all there is to it.
