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It's explicitly about oil, right? Wikipedia [1]: > Andrew McCabe quotes Trump as saying of Venezuela "That’s the country we should be going to war with, they

It's explicitly about oil, right? Wikipedia [1]: > Andrew McCabe quotes Trump as saying of Venezuela "That’s the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.” > In June 2023, Trump said at a press conference in North Carolina, "When I left, Venezuela was about to collapse. We would have taken over it, we would have kept all that oil." PBS [2]: > "We want it back," he added. "They took our oil rights — we had a lot of oil there. As you know they threw our companies out, and we want it back." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_United_States_invasion_of_Venezuela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_United_States_invasio... [2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-we-want-it-back-trump-demands-venezuela-return-land-oil-rights-to-u-s https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-we-want-it-back-...

HDThoreaun 9mo ago
Venezuelan oil is kind of crappy. I would say the two biggest reasons for this are 1. Trump wanting migrants from Venezuela to stop and 2. Ending Venezuelan support for Cuba. Oil is definitely one of the reasons though.
- dataflow 9mo ago
  Maybe worth mentioning I posted this before seeing the news about Maduro being captured. No idea whether/how that might change the calculus.
  - dataflow 9mo ago
    Yup it's the oil. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/03/g-s1-104346/trump-venezuela-maduro-press-conference https://www.npr.org/2026/01/03/g-s1-104346/trump-venezuela-m...
- gbnwl 9mo ago
  It is heavy crude but it's what our refineries are set up to use. There was a very informative news report on this recently posted to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgwny1BiCYk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgwny1BiCYk Apparently shale oil mostly comes out as light, so our own production doesn't feed our refineries and we've increasingly taken to importing heavy crude.
  - abigail95 9mo ago
    Where are you people getting your information that the USA somehow has idle heavy oil processing despite record production levels?
    - gbnwl 9mo ago
      I literally linked my source. It's less than 7 minutes long. It's not that refineries are idle, it's that we have to import the heavy crude to keep them producing. Heavy crude went from 12% of imports to 70% as of 2025. The most relevant graphs, if you really can't stomach 7 minutes of video, are shown from 3:30 - 4:30ish in the video. And again, record production levels of shale oil is producing LIGHT crude. The information you're seeking has already been provided to you.
    - gbnwl 9mo ago
      Hey Abigail, just following up. Were you able to find the information you needed? Where'd ya go?
- trickyager 9mo ago
  Venezuelan oil is very heavy, but the US oil industry is literally designed to process this type. The US exports their sweet crude elsewhere because they can't process it.
  - abigail95 9mo ago
    How much of that do you think is idle?

HDThoreaun 9mo ago

Venezuelan oil is kind of crappy. I would say the two biggest reasons for this are 1. Trump wanting migrants from Venezuela to stop and 2. Ending Venezuelan support for Cuba. Oil is definitely one of the reasons though.

dataflow 9mo ago
Maybe worth mentioning I posted this before seeing the news about Maduro being captured. No idea whether/how that might change the calculus.
- dataflow 9mo ago
  Yup it's the oil. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/03/g-s1-104346/trump-venezuela-maduro-press-conference https://www.npr.org/2026/01/03/g-s1-104346/trump-venezuela-m...
gbnwl 9mo ago
It is heavy crude but it's what our refineries are set up to use. There was a very informative news report on this recently posted to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgwny1BiCYk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgwny1BiCYk Apparently shale oil mostly comes out as light, so our own production doesn't feed our refineries and we've increasingly taken to importing heavy crude.
- abigail95 9mo ago
  Where are you people getting your information that the USA somehow has idle heavy oil processing despite record production levels?
  - gbnwl 9mo ago
    I literally linked my source. It's less than 7 minutes long. It's not that refineries are idle, it's that we have to import the heavy crude to keep them producing. Heavy crude went from 12% of imports to 70% as of 2025. The most relevant graphs, if you really can't stomach 7 minutes of video, are shown from 3:30 - 4:30ish in the video. And again, record production levels of shale oil is producing LIGHT crude. The information you're seeking has already been provided to you.
  - gbnwl 9mo ago
    Hey Abigail, just following up. Were you able to find the information you needed? Where'd ya go?
trickyager 9mo ago
Venezuelan oil is very heavy, but the US oil industry is literally designed to process this type. The US exports their sweet crude elsewhere because they can't process it.
- abigail95 9mo ago
  How much of that do you think is idle?