I don't exercise as such. Click to enter our contest. The Year of Snake is also a metal year, but the metal is very much weaken by the fire of the snake. I will expect the snake will help to destroy some weak metal, this means the high-tech industry will undergo a year of elimination, expelling the weak and unhealthy players.
Energy industry is symbolized by fire element.
Fire conquers metal. Therefore, metal symbolizes the money gains of the oil industry. It is the strong metal appearing in the year of Dragon that brings up the oil price, bringing substantial money gains to oil companies. However, the metal will be weakened in 2001 by the fire snake. Hence we can only expect the oil price to come down.