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Warren Buffett Invested $58 Billion in This 1 Industry Before Retiring. It’s Starting to Make Sense

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04.02.2026

Even after he stepped back as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO, the Oracle of Omaha’s wisdom is still paying dividends.

BY BRIAN CONTRERAS, STAFF WRITER @_B_CONTRERAS_

Warren Buffett. Photo: AP

In his final years at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett started shoveling money into a sector that might have raised some eyebrows: the energy industry, especially oil and gas.

Indeed, a new analysis by markets analysis outlet The Motley Fool estimates that Buffett—the CEO of the investment giant at the time, although........

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