Donald Trump has suggested US taxpayers could reimburse energy companies for repairing Venezuelan infrastructure for extracting and shipping oil.
Trump acknowledged that “a lot of money” would need to be spent to increase oil production in Venezuela after US forces ousted its leader, Nicolás Maduro, but suggested his government could pay oil companies to do the work.
“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” the president said.
The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, reportedly plans to meet representatives of Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil at the Goldman Sachs Energy, Clean Tech & Utilities Conference in Miami later this week.
what an absolute scam wizard
Goldman Sachs Energy, Clean Tech & Utilities Conference in Miami later this week.
Earnest wuestion: How does one find out about events like this with sufficient notice to organize protests to disrupt and shut these kinds of meetings down?
Resistance becomes necessary once any crime becomes legalized in a mobocracy.
And there it is America. You will be paying for the oil baron’s windfall.
They’re already paying. They’re about to pay more. 😄
We pay for the honer of paying more later. Its the circle of grift.
But still can’t afford healthcare for our citizens, somehow.
This clown needs to be removed.
The US wants to kill off the non working citizens and funnel those savings to the oligarchy. Such efficiency. We really need to start hunting billionaires.
The US wants to kill off the non working citizens and funnel those savings to the oligarchy.
Final stage capitalism
Paul Singer will take this all the way up to the Supreme Court… again.
That article reads like they’re trying to sell the bear’s skin before they’ve caught it. They kidnapped the Venezuelan leader, but the rest of the old regime is still in power. The USA doesn’t control anything on the ground, yet they’re talking as if it’s a done deal and that they can just walk in and take over.
I also wouldn’t want to be a us oil company employee that gets send over to Venezuela. Even if the USA somehow manages to take control of the oil fields, there’s likely to be a lot of sabotage and guerilla attacks.
Yep. The US can’t exert real control without boots on the ground. Boots who would, once again, find themselves fighting angry, and well armed, citizens.
“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” the president said.
If oil companies invest in Venezuela that is their problem not the US taxpayers problem.
This man somehow gets dumber every single day. I didn’t think there were IQ’s below zero but he is proving otherwise.
He’s dumb, but this is deliberate. The whole point is to take public funds and give them to the wealthy while making it impossible for the poor to live.
This drives everything, doesn’t it. Even when it doesn’t look like it on the surface, look for an upwards redistribution scheme is and you find the logic behind the madness.
Yeah. This isn’t the first time we as taxpayers have paid for “infrastructure upgrades” with nothing to show for it. They straight up pocketed the money.
WDYM not US taxpayer problem, who paid for the special military operation, that’s supposed to enable oil corpos to “invest”?
“America First”.
Lmao.
Imagine being a MAGA brainlet in 2026.
they’re just teabagging us at this point
GG no RE
Hey, um, congress? What the fuck are you waiting for?
They’re waiting on their buy options
For someone to remind them of what the consequences of an unsatisfied population are I guess
their cut
I am surprised to hear such a realistic assessment.
I thought this was going to be like the wall or tariffs, but yeah the us tax payer will fund the foreign country’s infrastructure.
That sounds a lot like communism 🤔
I feel like we could save a lot of money on waste fraud and abuse if we threw Shitler and the Turd Reich into Lake Michigan
