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The Top 10 Energy Prognostications for 2025 - Year of the Snake - Don't Get Bit!

Are you ready for Trumpian turmoil? Regardless of your opinion of the president-elect, you’ve got to acknowledge he’ll be shaking things up. In fact, with talk of a tariff blitz poised to disrupt global trade, mass deportations on deck, notions like reclaiming the Panama Canal, buying Greenland and even annexing Canada, the turmoil is already well underway. And of course, energy markets will be front and center, with “Drill, baby, drill” the stated oil and gas policy du jour. With so much uncertainty ahead, it’s impossible to predict what will happen in 2025, right? Nah. All we need to do is stick out our collective RBN necks one more time, peer into our crystal ball, and see what the new year has in store for us. 

For 13 years we’ve been in the prognostications business and, if anything, it’s only gotten tougher. But even so, we’ve stuck to our tradition of looking ahead — and reviewing how our past predictions panned out. Yes, we check our work! You can see how we did in our 2024 Prognostications Scorecard that was posted yesterday. Pretty good, in our modest opinion.

2025 – Year of the Snake

What goes around comes around. 2025 is Year of the Snake, same as it was in 2013 when we posted the first RBN Prognostications blog. Way back then, when we ventured into the shadowy world of energy prognostications, we needed all the insight we could gather. So we turned to the Chinese zodiac, which proved to be a very useful guide in predicting energy markets. For example, we had the Year of the Goat in 2015 when oil prices crashed, there was palpable greed in 2019’s Year of the Pig, and with the COVID meltdown, 2020 was definitely Year of the Rat.

The Chinese zodiac serves up a mixed bag of positives and negatives for each of the years of its calendar, and the Snake Year is no exception. The Snake is said to be wise, reflective and intuitive, but it can also be associated with secrecy and mystique, if not delusion and deception. So we need to be careful, and not fall for the snake’s smooth talkin’, which might just leave us snakebit in more ways than one. In today’s Prognostications, we’ll try to avoid those snakes and delve into some of the most important and interesting developments we see ahead in 2025.

We’ll start at #10 and work our way up to #1. 

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