Ben Oberg runs The Capitalist Network, a community of accredited investors, and he told me something that still doesn't feel real.
They opened up an oil fund raise. Before they even dropped the link to invest, prior investors had already committed one point eight million dollars.
They capped the fund at ten million. Eighty eight people ended up committing, and it closed at $9.3 million raised in about ninety minutes.
For his audience specifically, anytime oil comes up, fifty to seventy percent of the room gets interested, because these are people trying to minimize taxes in retirement, write off W2 income, and get cash flow that doesn't get hammered come tax time.
Save this if you want to understand why oil and gas keeps showing up in serious investor portfolios.