Not all crude oil is the same — some oil is physically lighter and easier for refineries to process. Venezuela’s oil is heavy and dense, and requires special refineries. Burning any type of oil contributes to climate change, but Venezuela’s oil is “among the dirtiest oils in the world to produce when it comes to global warming,” says Paasha Mahdavi, associate professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
What matters is that this kind of oil is something that a bunch of US refineries are set up to process, while the US exports light crude.
I’m not sure what Bush was doing in Iraq, but this time it’ll work. /s
Bush prioritized the Iraqi Oil Ministry over hospitals, museums, mosques, you name it. The looting in the immediate aftermath of the invasion - more often than not by US troops and their contractor allies - was obsene.
I guess you can be grateful we’re not doing that in Venezuela… yet
We wont be taking that oil to turn it into electricity, doesn’t make sense for our infrastructure. Oil is really the back up to the back up just in case in the US. At least in terms of large scale electric generation. Might be it’ll be exported or converted to other oil based products. Either way, we shouldn’t be involved in any way shape or form with a sovereign nation’s resources against their will. Based on the article, sounds like this is more an underhanded attack on China’s economy than anything.
Some are saying it’s also part of the plan to crush Canada, since the US can now steal Venezuelan oil instead of buying Canadian.
Interesting wrinkle.
