Petro Dollars

Well, they’re just money received from the mining of a T-Rex's blood and guts. Because yeah. Oil. That’s where it comes from. Yesterday’s Stegosaurus is today’s refined petroleum. And we’re talking about a massive amount of dollars here, like, you could call them masta-dollars or T-Rex-adollars or Tricera-dollars.

Big wealth in the 70s came from the petro era, in the same way that it’s led today by Amazon, Facebook and Google. When oil prices suddenly spike, the people who win, usually, are the ones who have oceans of it underground. And in times when there is so much money coming into a system, the economic driver of that wealth becomes kind of a currency itself.

In fact, China has made all kinds of noise about making their currency an oil standard, upgrading from the old gold, silver and bronze medal of shame standard that western civilization used to hold so dear.

Which...we know would make this guy happy at least…