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.
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. 😄
“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”?
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
Hey, um, congress? What the fuck are you waiting for?
They’re waiting on their buy options
their cut
For someone to remind them of what the consequences of an unsatisfied population are I guess
So if we pay for it, we’ll own the product… r-r-right?!
Every year, on the anniversary of Maduro’s kidnapping, you would allowed to dip your finger in a pot of crude and keep what sticks to your skin.
That is all.
The real reason Trump took out Maduro. He dances better than him without jacking two guys off at the same time.
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
This alone would be over the top satirical fiction of a thoroughly corrupt government in most modern countries. To the point where the premise would risk rejection by editors for being too fucking blatant about it! 🤦
they’re just teabagging us at this point
GG no RE
Americans really need to look into tax striking
We need to start looking into French inventors of the late 18th century.
They are looking into a tax strike , especially MAGAs, as well as a general strike .
Stop Tax Payment Now: Delay your decision to pay income tax until April 2026. Pay less or not at all.
And how does one go about doing that?
substack
Jesus you can’t avoid relying on some third-party hosting even for this? This is just asking to have your content removed due to “ToS violations”
Everybody who voted for this imbecile should be forced to reimburse the rest of the world for the damage he and his cronies are doing. Everything they own plus twelve years of indentured servitude would be a very small first step.
At least. Honesty, when they’re starving in the coming depression and when their kids are bleeding out on a battlefield, they’ll suffer enough. They might not be cognizant of it and they’ll do the whole mental gymnastics but those conditions affect your subconscious and physical health beyond what you can ignore
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
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.
The oil companies don’t want to invest because in 10y when production recovers, who knows what oil prices will be? Even if they could pump it out tomorrow, Oil is cheap, and driving it down would bankrupt American oil production.
The logic of “addiction to foreign oil” is outdated. America is an energy exporter.
The US exports light crude, but has to import heavy crude.
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?
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The fuck we will.
Gosh, that’s nice of 'em! Where’s the, “I don’t want one cent of MUH TAXES going to fund foreigners” crowd now?
