oh I wonder if it’s oil…
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It was oil
What many people don’t realize is that a significant chunk of our oil processing infrastructure in America is designed for Venezuelas oil specifically. It’s very thick and that means a very different procedure for refinement. Thinner/watery crude oil from other places in the world is much easier to work with and many other places are already set up to refine that oil. Not everyone in the world is set up to process Venezuelas crude oil.
This also means we can’t just get oil somewhere else and run it through those same refineries with the same results. Venezuela has the single largest oil reserves and America spent a lot of time, energy and money to process that oil.
So yes it is about oil, but it’s much more complicated than simply “oil”.
It’s always been about the oil with Venezuela. The US does not care about the legitimacy of foreign elections and never has, anyone who believes that is an idiot,
B-but the drugs… Don’t ask about the reasons of the opioid crisis in their country though
Well we have reserves in barrels and export ind dollars.
So nobody can get any information about how much oil was actually exported.
I don’t know the oil price. I don’t think everyone is paying the same.
This is almost useless
To misattribute a quote to Gordon Ramsey: “You’ve put so much oil in this, the US want to invade the plate”.
Venezuela Oil is poor quality which means it costs a lot to refine.
Tell people this and they’ll blink at you like you just asked a fish to do calculus.
The public is woefully ignorant on how the oil industry as a whole works, the vast majority of people don’t even know that there are different qualities and weights of oil that are suited for different things.
Eh, the reason there’s so little exports is because the extraction collapsed when all the workers at the national company, PDVSA, were fired in a single day for political reasons. Then the drop in prices in 2015 further destroyed all facilities. Even if the US invades today, it would take decades to rebuild the infrastructure back to pre-2000 levels of export.
Better yet, our military gets there and can’t find oil. Oops, let’s prop up another dictatorship
Climate heroes
Thank god for that red arrow and red box. Would have been lost without them.
Guess Iran and Canada better get some goddamn nukes then
Have you guys already forgotten the sortie of B-2s and GBU-57s on Fordow? Damn it’s scary how quickly people forget
Not allowed only the countries who had nukes firsts are allowed to have them ever its nuclear non proliferation on top of that the ones that have them pinkie promise to phase them out any day now. This is totally fair and balanced and we will bomb you if you disagree.
And they’d be exporting plenty if they weren’t sanctioned by the world’s largest military and single biggest consumer of oil.
Literally the most similar country on Earth to Venezuela, both politically and economically, is Norway. But they’re white. That’s the big difference.
But but but the west loves the free market and all that…
These wankies only care about “free market” when they’re on the top exploiting.
As soon as a strong competitor appears, the market is cornered, blackmailed, forcefully sold off to friends/families, or simply sanctioned or embargoed along with countries who are willing to do business with them.
Deja vu!
Their oil is bad and investing in new oil drilling is likely to yield low returns as a crash is incoming due to renewables being cheaper and most states having a desire to alleviate climate change risks.
and that is why the oil industry funds the far right with such insane sums. It is also really good news, as a decline in oil consumption is really going to hurt the far right.
“No MoRe WaRs” and Trump the Peacemaker was a big part of their campaign. Hopefully invading Venezuela would hurt him more politically than any oil but who am I kidding? They’ll all just lie like they always do.
