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. 😄
Public costs and private profits eh?
I think even a general strike would fall short as an action.
So much capitalism. What a free market /s
“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.
Stealing from the poor to give to the rich…
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
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! 🤦
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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.
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
and the oligarchs that supported him.
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.
FUCK THAT!
If taxpayers pay for it, then taxpayers should receive the profits.
Why the fuck should taxpayers finance capitalist ventures that only enrich the shareholders?
Because fascism == corporatism, and we’rr living under a fascist regime.
I hate to break it to you, but Trump sort of wants all of our money.
Greedy bastards will never be satisfied.
At my age I think that is the only course in system that allows unrestricted hoarding of resources.
I don’t think these people have anything outside of their need to hoard in life. It is a mental illness.
I agree with you completely and I’ve been calling it out for years. People treated me like I was a crackpot for saying things like “infinite pursuit of growth is neither possible nor desirable.” Or “life isn’t a zero-sum game and a system that’s built to uplift everyone is better than a system designed to maximize gains for a few.”
Clearly there aren’t many leftists around me, or at least the ones who are hate me for different reasons. Maybe because I said MLs are authoritarians and no better than maga. I like democracy, it’s capitalism that needs to go. The Nordic model seemed to work just fine until right-wing propagandists invaded Scandinavia.
Oh, I also compared capitalists to cancerous growths, and that made the oligarchs feel so oppressed. Maybe that’s why billionaires these days are comparing themselves to holocaust victims. Those poor billionaires… won’t anyone think of the shareholders?
Clearly there aren’t many leftists around me
Sounds likely. I don’t know many that aren’t terrified of a society that glorifies unreasonable accumulation.
Because they think it would allow them to do the same…
…while they work into their seventies because a full retirement is out of reach for most of the working class…
they are also obsessed with longevity, they want to outlive the people they exploited so they dont come after them, plus to remain relevant.
Well I hope their bodies reject the transplants and they die on the operating table
his wealth has grown like 3x since he was elected, before that he was losing quite a bit of money fending of lawsuits and other cases in court.
Cool, we can just make a new currency
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?
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.
Lol Donny you’re losing the thread here you gotta pretend to fuck over foreigners, not Americans. Come on now, focus!
