QuoteHey! I've said that same thing more than once, but about peak oilers.
Venezuela's extra-heavy Orinoco Belt crude oil is difficult, costly, and energy-intensive to extract and refine into American gas station go juice. If American oil companies get control of it the would be the only ones who could refine it. Perhaps you could inform the Diner about this.
If all of Venezuela's proven oil reserves were refined entirely into gasoline, and used to supply the U.S. at its 2023 consumption rate. The supply would last for approximately 93 years.
There are a few white whales in America who will kill for a monopoly that they can make last for almost a century. American capitalism being what it is, they will have no trouble convincing themselves that making themselves great will make America great at all. Profit being enough to warp the mind. They will get their way if they can, even if they have to turn black to white, or wrong to right.
Trump is a bit trapped animal right now. That throws some chance into what would certainly be a sure thing, American greed being what it is.