In case people are wondering why Trump is trying to start a war with Venezuela.
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Also because they have heavy crude, which the US needs, and is only available from Venezuela and Canada.
Why heavy crude? Sweet light crude is typically the most valuable so it seems weird that America wants a low quality oil.
Oil Refineries in the US can only refine heavy crude. The light crude coming from US fracking is exported. Building new refineries would cost billions and take years to complete.
Because US refineries are designed to handle heavy crude.
https://edconway.substack.com/p/america-still-needs-canadian-oil
And is why Canada is the largest supplier of oil to the US, as most gasoline, aviation fuel etc in the US is made from Canadian oil.
and canada turned restricted the tap for the most part.
I wonder if there's any correlation between sizeable oil reserves and CIA funded coups... 🤔
What a horrible way to convey information
Venezuela's about to get so much freedom.
At current annual global consumption levels, all of this will be gone in 48 years.
Jesus fucking christ that's terrifying. It will only accelerate at the way we're headed.
All the more reason to stop using oil derived fuels wherever possible. We don't need to use up some of this completely finite resource every time we want to make a trip to the grocery store. Even if you decide you want to stick to an internal combustion engine vehicle, you don't have to power it using nonrenewable, 100 million year old fossil goo. Use renewable biofuels like corn ethanol, or something similar.
The US hostility against Venezuela explained in one photo.
I feel a little prescient here.
Hey George, can you make us a pie chart for this data?
Sure! Mmm, pie. Now, what the fuck am I supposed to do with this chart thing..?
Every time USA starts a war, is to save the world from terrorists! its not about oil of course! Now USA does not care how many will die, just to save the world! /S
Mr President hates renewable energies, so better use oil!
Link to table numbers (not original source, as was a bit cumbersome to find the table there with a phone at 96 pages) if anyone wants to make a bar chart instead:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves
A fun genie wish would be to turn all the world's oil into some innocuous placeholder liquid.
Ok, now break down the heavyness of the oil.
Well you see, if you carry more oil, it gets heavier
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk
Not to hijack your ted talk, but the heavier the oil the harder it is to refine.
Some countries like Venezuela have extremely heavy oil so it needs a lot more refinement. Also of note, most of the USA's refineries are for heavy oil.
that makes even more sense why usa whats it now, aside from the fact that he needs something to distract his supporters from the files.
I've never seen Denmark written as DNK, only DK. Surprised how small the Russian and Norwegian reserves are for countries I've considered to be petrostates
petrostate is more defined by production (relative to the whole economic output of the nation to be accurate, not outright absolute value of production) rather than total reserves