• SpaceCowboy
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    2 years ago

    Wait, you mean to tell me that Iran and Libya aren’t actually threats to the west? Well that’s the only reason I can think of to prohibit the sale of their oil on the open market.

    Edit: re-reading this, this comment reads super stupid lol. I shouldn’t commie-post after midnight.

    • @Bobbycostner@lemmygrad.ml
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      52 years ago

      It’s also the reason why the US are so keen on Venezuela. Their oil requires a lot of refining because of how heavy it is. A lot of money for oil companies.

      • SpaceCowboy
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        42 years ago

        Does requiring more refining translate to bigger profits because they can get away with paying the venezuelans less for it and they control the rest of the supply chain?

        • @Bobbycostner@lemmygrad.ml
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          62 years ago

          Absolutely. It also creates a larger dependency on big oil as they make out that they are the only ones that can refine that oil.

          It wasn’t long after Chavez kicked big oil out of Venezuela that the Saudi’s started pumping more oil dropping the oil price massively. The US then said that Venezuela couldn’t process their own oil and thats what caused their economic problems when that’s not what happened at all.