Don't forget: Venezuela oil is sour. I.e it has a high sulfur content which makes it harder to process and more corrosive than sweet oil such as those found in the United States. Our refining capacity is able to process crude oil that is sour so that's why we are shipping tar sands to the gulf of Mexico from Canada, which is also high in sulfur. Those refineries could easily take on the Venezuelan capacities as well. Unfortunately, in addition to creating more acid rain, sour crude also emits more carbon so it is worse for climate change. Surprise surprise!
And US companies own a good portion of the Alberta tar sands. Why control Venezuela's oil? Cutting off Venezuela oil would increase the price of the Alberta crude and profits to US companies. Paid for by the US tax payer.
So are we liberating the oil to increase production, or "cutting off" their oil, to increase prices to other producers?
I kinda think the Stephan Miller wing doesn't really care; they are wallowing in some nouveaux-colonialist paradigm, obsessed with a perceived need to control and produce raw materials and basic manufacturing at home or in countries that practice obsequious toadying. In addition to the general desire for obsequious toadying by the boy king.
From what I read, it would cost $100 Billion and 10 years to get Venezuela's oil moving like that in Alberta. This should be a shut down in Venezuela and an increase in prices for Alberta.
Thank you for telling it like it is. It's almost refreshing to have a government that is so bad at covering up the real reasons for their actions. Everything is out in the open now. Hopefully people don't buy the crap about more jobs or lower gas prices and see this as the equivalent of a giant handout for Big Oil.
I have long seen that the people supporting our current government are not climate change “deniers”— they are climate change “promoters”, grasping the last gasp of fossil fuels for themselves. You should also cover the concept of “overshoot”, which pretty much renders all climate policy moot. It is pretty hopeless.
It's always confounding to me how some people are so willing to buy into conspiracies like chemtrails and not see the very obvious collusion between government and industries like Big Oil. If you can get these folks involved in the service of awareness of the climate crisis's magnitude, though, it's worth a shot.
Yes the conspiracy part (minus the preamble) needs to be posted from an anonymous account on a website with a lot of popup ads! And then re-shared on Facebook and Nextdoor. This is our only hope!
I sorta think that the main oil play here is to choke off supplies to Cuba, and inflict further pain on them. Another factor is an anti-China thing within "our" Western Hemisphere of "dominance."
Right now the world is awash in oil and gas reserves/fields while demand growth is flattening. That doesn't mean drilling is stopping, because depletion is depletion. There are gobs of reserves worldwide though at some debatable point our Permian play is drained. So it might be a bit of pure profit to oil majors if they are just able to mark up existing Venezuelan production. "Liberating" all of VZ's oil onto the world market would almost certainly decrease oil prices and most company profits. But maybe somewhere in the plan/conspiracy is a way to just subsidize the producers, allowing them to flood the market at a loss in an attempt to slow the worldwide trend to electrification.
And now Felon47’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and other international agreements. Putin & Big Oil’s purchase of the MAGA GOP delivers a twofer: propping up rotting petrostates and deepening divisions within the U.S. and between the U.S. and former allies in NATO and elsewhere.
I will repeat a little of what I said in today's "The Village Oak Tree" podcast. Trump gets paid up front for all of this, so he's okay with using soldiers to go after whatever the donors pay him for. He's a mafia capo. Everything he does is for him and his families personal gain. It's that simple. If you pay him enough money, he'll do something for you. Legal or not. He thinks he's untouchable by the legal system now. Bottom line, Trump is past caring about anyone or anything now, other than lining his pockets with as much money as possible before he goes away in three years.
Conspiracy theories are the norm because important events like kennedy, epstein, lumumba, x, king, Leahy compliance, even Jan6 have facts burned redacted restricted or shredded as National Security. To say otherwise is just imperial machismo aspiring to be complaint academics journalists and artists to power.
While our fossilized president and his greasy enablers insist on keeping us in Fred Flinstone's La-La Land, the rest of the world is churning out solar panels and electric cars by the boatload, leaving the US in the dust. Bye-bye American innovation being the leader in the world, hello back seat. But hey - look at the stock market these days!!
Never thought of it this way but you are totally right. This really is a great way to convey it in a word of what is actually happening. They are lying about any benefits and they know they are lying and just screwing us over.
I would say though that Trump is such an utter moron. Like I'm convinced 70% of the reason he wants Greenland so bad is because of how big it looks on a map, because he doesn't understand how maps distort land masses as they get closer to the poles.
So how well do conspiracies work with complete morons in charge of them also blurting out the conspiracy, "yeah we are just going to take the oil". I think still pretty well if they are in power which is why they will try to keep it that way.
Don't forget: Venezuela oil is sour. I.e it has a high sulfur content which makes it harder to process and more corrosive than sweet oil such as those found in the United States. Our refining capacity is able to process crude oil that is sour so that's why we are shipping tar sands to the gulf of Mexico from Canada, which is also high in sulfur. Those refineries could easily take on the Venezuelan capacities as well. Unfortunately, in addition to creating more acid rain, sour crude also emits more carbon so it is worse for climate change. Surprise surprise!
And US companies own a good portion of the Alberta tar sands. Why control Venezuela's oil? Cutting off Venezuela oil would increase the price of the Alberta crude and profits to US companies. Paid for by the US tax payer.
So are we liberating the oil to increase production, or "cutting off" their oil, to increase prices to other producers?
I kinda think the Stephan Miller wing doesn't really care; they are wallowing in some nouveaux-colonialist paradigm, obsessed with a perceived need to control and produce raw materials and basic manufacturing at home or in countries that practice obsequious toadying. In addition to the general desire for obsequious toadying by the boy king.
From what I read, it would cost $100 Billion and 10 years to get Venezuela's oil moving like that in Alberta. This should be a shut down in Venezuela and an increase in prices for Alberta.
Thank you for telling it like it is. It's almost refreshing to have a government that is so bad at covering up the real reasons for their actions. Everything is out in the open now. Hopefully people don't buy the crap about more jobs or lower gas prices and see this as the equivalent of a giant handout for Big Oil.
This is an excellent overview of where we are and how we got here. Essential reading. Thanks for all you do to help people connect the dots.
“America is an oil company with an army.” – George Carlin
I have long seen that the people supporting our current government are not climate change “deniers”— they are climate change “promoters”, grasping the last gasp of fossil fuels for themselves. You should also cover the concept of “overshoot”, which pretty much renders all climate policy moot. It is pretty hopeless.
It's always confounding to me how some people are so willing to buy into conspiracies like chemtrails and not see the very obvious collusion between government and industries like Big Oil. If you can get these folks involved in the service of awareness of the climate crisis's magnitude, though, it's worth a shot.
Extremely well stated. Now if we can only repackage this and get YouTube conspiracy theorists to spew it...
I’m thinking of starting a YouTube channel
Yes the conspiracy part (minus the preamble) needs to be posted from an anonymous account on a website with a lot of popup ads! And then re-shared on Facebook and Nextdoor. This is our only hope!
I sorta think that the main oil play here is to choke off supplies to Cuba, and inflict further pain on them. Another factor is an anti-China thing within "our" Western Hemisphere of "dominance."
Right now the world is awash in oil and gas reserves/fields while demand growth is flattening. That doesn't mean drilling is stopping, because depletion is depletion. There are gobs of reserves worldwide though at some debatable point our Permian play is drained. So it might be a bit of pure profit to oil majors if they are just able to mark up existing Venezuelan production. "Liberating" all of VZ's oil onto the world market would almost certainly decrease oil prices and most company profits. But maybe somewhere in the plan/conspiracy is a way to just subsidize the producers, allowing them to flood the market at a loss in an attempt to slow the worldwide trend to electrification.
https://wyofile.com/venezuela-takeover-has-wyoming-oil-industry-bracing-for-market-changes/
And now Felon47’s withdrawal of the U.S. from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and other international agreements. Putin & Big Oil’s purchase of the MAGA GOP delivers a twofer: propping up rotting petrostates and deepening divisions within the U.S. and between the U.S. and former allies in NATO and elsewhere.
Thanks Emily,
As usual you have provided supporting reference material to make your content speak more forcefully. I am interested in your professional opining on my most recent post: https://open.substack.com/pub/larryryan/p/will-we-celebrate-250-years-of-democracy?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Larry
I will repeat a little of what I said in today's "The Village Oak Tree" podcast. Trump gets paid up front for all of this, so he's okay with using soldiers to go after whatever the donors pay him for. He's a mafia capo. Everything he does is for him and his families personal gain. It's that simple. If you pay him enough money, he'll do something for you. Legal or not. He thinks he's untouchable by the legal system now. Bottom line, Trump is past caring about anyone or anything now, other than lining his pockets with as much money as possible before he goes away in three years.
Conspiracy theories are the norm because important events like kennedy, epstein, lumumba, x, king, Leahy compliance, even Jan6 have facts burned redacted restricted or shredded as National Security. To say otherwise is just imperial machismo aspiring to be complaint academics journalists and artists to power.
While our fossilized president and his greasy enablers insist on keeping us in Fred Flinstone's La-La Land, the rest of the world is churning out solar panels and electric cars by the boatload, leaving the US in the dust. Bye-bye American innovation being the leader in the world, hello back seat. But hey - look at the stock market these days!!
Never thought of it this way but you are totally right. This really is a great way to convey it in a word of what is actually happening. They are lying about any benefits and they know they are lying and just screwing us over.
I would say though that Trump is such an utter moron. Like I'm convinced 70% of the reason he wants Greenland so bad is because of how big it looks on a map, because he doesn't understand how maps distort land masses as they get closer to the poles.
So how well do conspiracies work with complete morons in charge of them also blurting out the conspiracy, "yeah we are just going to take the oil". I think still pretty well if they are in power which is why they will try to keep it that way.
I just wrote about this https://joegalliani.substack.com/p/maduros-clandestine-plot-to-flood