Country that goes around the world to steal oil so they can sell it for profit has a huge amount of oil to sell?
Also, America is a net exporter of low grade crude oil, and its Gulf Coast refineries are geared towards refining the exact type of crude oil Venezuela exports
I've tried explaining this exact fact to people on reddit and it breaks their brains.
I think you jave it backwards. The US committed all refineries to heavy crude oil shortly before it discovered how to frack for the high grade stuff. But because it would have cost oil companies hundreds of billions to convert all the refineries they just got done making, we import shitty tar sand oil from Canada and export all the high grade stuff we drill for.
But yeah, Venezuela's heavy crude is what ExxonMobile wants to bring into Houston so that my boss's new truck can continue to get 16 MPG on the highway.
Nobody believes Iraq wasn't about oil and nobody will believe this isn't about oil. Anyone claiming otherwise is doing so knowing they're full of shit but doing it anyway because they support it.
Because it's more profitable to export the good crude and import lower grade oil, from even just a national economy standpoint, as long as prices are high enough. But of course the US is corrupt beyond that and perfectly willing to spend many times over on military if it allows US companies to extract additional resources abroad.
Answer with "Voldemort has magic why would he want more magic?" gets on their level
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