&quot;Generation’s best-known analysis is its 2013 report asserting that coal and petroleum reserves were “stranded assets” whose theoretical market value would never be realized, because environmental, legal, technological, and market constraints would inevitably prevent much of that carbon from being sold and burned.&quot;<p>That might be another motivating factor for the Saudi&#x27;s to sell their oil cheaply. Sell as much as you can now because the future market will be more hostile.