Sure you can make money from this. Just get paid to take barrels of crude oil from a producer, take them home, and sell them to someone once the price increases. Problem is:

1. Do you know the laws and regulations for transporting and storing crude oil?
2. Would an oil producer just pay you, an individual, to haul off crude oil in their pickup? I doubt it. They deal in increments of hundreds of barrels, can you handle that many?
3. Who would buy barrels of crude oil from some random guy named "Number File"?

Could we drive nonstop on the highway just to burn gasoline in order to get paid at the gas station?

The gas station will not pay you to get gas. People are still driving around so there is still some demand for gasoline/diesel. Crude oil is the only thing with a negative price. Lots of overhead costs and refining costs to create gasoline.

So in reality, no, you cannot make money from this.

Sure you can make money from this. Just get paid to take barrels of crude oil from a producer, take them home, and sell them to someone once the price increases. Problem is:

1. Do you know the laws and regulations for transporting and storing crude oil?
2. Would an oil producer just pay you, an individual, to haul off crude oil in their pickup? I doubt it. They deal in increments of hundreds of barrels, can you handle that many?
3. Who would buy barrels of crude oil from some random individual like you?

Could we drive nonstop on the highway just to burn gasoline in order to get paid at the gas station?

The gas station will not pay you to get gas. People are still driving around so there is still some demand for gasoline/diesel. Crude oil is the only thing with a negative price. Lots of overhead costs and refining costs to create gasoline.

So in reality, no, you cannot make money from this.

Sure you can make money from this. Get paid to take a couple barrels of crude oil, take them home, and sell them to someone once the price increases. Problem is:

1. Do you know the laws and regulations for transporting and storing crude oil?
2. Would an oil producer just pay you, an individual, to haul off crude oil in their pickup? I doubt it.
3. Who would buy barrels of crude oil from some random guy named "Number File"?

Could we drive nonstop on the highway just to burn gasoline in order to get paid at the gas station?

The gas station will not pay you to get gas. People are still driving around so there is still some demand. Crude oil is the only thing with a negative price, not gasoline. Lots of overhead costs and refining costs to create gasoline.

So in reality, no, you cannot make money from this.

Sure you can make money from this. Just get paid to take barrels of crude oil from a producer, take them home, and sell them to someone once the price increases. Problem is:

1. Do you know the laws and regulations for transporting and storing crude oil?
2. Would an oil producer just pay you, an individual, to haul off crude oil in their pickup? I doubt it. They deal in increments of hundreds of barrels, can you handle that many?
3. Who would buy barrels of crude oil from some random guy named "Number File"?

Could we drive nonstop on the highway just to burn gasoline in order to get paid at the gas station?

The gas station will not pay you to get gas. People are still driving around so there is still some demand for gasoline/diesel. Crude oil is the only thing with a negative price. Lots of overhead costs and refining costs to create gasoline.

So in reality, no, you cannot make money from this.