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Trump says he'll fill up the Strategic Oil Reserve "at almost no cost" with oil plundered from Venezuela

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It's so impossible to image a functioning colonialist empire like this arising. I felt so naive believing so strongly in that Iraq was *all* oil imperialism, especially given how dysfunctional our presence there was. But oh man if you are just vastly stupider and dumber, you can imagine a new go.

So, if the US takes the main export from Venezuela at its highest price ever how long before the acting president is assassinated, jailed or has to leave the country? Is he trying to get her killed?

The major geological event right after we stole their oil affected every infrastructure; roadways, plumbing and electrical systems building stability. They can’t even process the materials needed to rebuild.

He’s a lying, greedy lunatic who is attempting to bribe the voters with stolen goods- How Al Capone of this Nazi! Humid greed will prevent him from sharing- he sees that as socialism! otherwise, he’d have done it already!!

Apparently as I've been informed by others just now their oil is a pain to refine so.... add it to the list of lies. Granted its less of a list or more a library.

Another lie. It will take enormous capital and a lot of time to tap into Venezuela’s reserves. Trump will not be around when this flows. And it’s their’s not ours!

Meanwhile oil companies are telling him its low grade and will take many years to get refineries up to the point it will make a difference. Remember when GWB said cars would soon only give up water for emissions? Same bullshit.

I was listening to this part of the speech. The crowd was quiet. I wondered if they realized they just heard the President of the United States admit to stealing oil from VZ.

Dead boaters and shattered boats, some ruination of the port, early arrival of operatives with investigations, preparation time, fulfillment equipment costs, the invasion army all with logistics costs to say it’s ours; it will still be $6.00 at the pump. We’re paying more than twice for oil.

Theft. Central to the manifesto of the bloated orange paedo-felon, whether it be from the American people or from neighbouring nations, this kleptocracy blunders onward interested only in enriching the members of the cartel & protecting them, many being Epstein perpetrators, from exposure.

"Don't worry everybody, we've still got some shit from the last guy we plundered. We'll just substitute that."

Trump bringing up the Strategic Oil Reserve indicates he is using the reserve to manipulate oil prices. There is a limit to how long this will last, Trump is just trying to hang on until after the election.

It's almost impossible and would cost billions. Just the transport would take years, but it would need to be refined. Venezuela doesn't have the infrastructure, so you'd have to build that first. So, we're talking tens of billions of dollars and over a decade.

Some American refineries could refine it if they wanted to. It’s a thing Americans never knew they needed to know, but not all oil is the same and each refinery is set up for a certain type of oil. Venezuelan oil could be potentially refined in some of the Gulf refineries.

Many gulf coast refineries are specifically designed for Latin American crude. But it is more expensive to refine And, first and foremost, these are untapped reserves. You need to build the infrastructure to get it out of the ground. And that is anything but "almost free"

We actually have a decent number of refineries that deal with that type of oil. Not in the quantities Trump brags about but it's definitely not nil.