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flashman13

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12. The oil companies don't want to have anything to do with Venezuela.

Reply to Wicked Blue (Reply #11)

Sat Jan 3, 2026, 06:49 PM

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Venezuelan oil is thick and gooey like Canadian tar sands oil. It is expensive and difficult to refine. To make use of it would require large investments in new refining capacity. Also the Venezuelan oil fields are in poor shape and again would require large investments to get production to a meaningful level. Why would the oil companies want to pour money into an unstable situation which could fall apart at any moment and cost them their entire investment.

The only person that wants Venezuelan oil is Trump. It's part of his "oil domination" thing.

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