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yanhangyhy • today at 3:46 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

how about the oil from Venezuela?


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thelastgallon • today at 3:51 AM

It will need 10s - 100s of billions of investment. By the time they start producing, demand would have been permanently destroyed, thanks to China supplying the world with EVs and solar panels. With sufficient demand destruction, oil should be priced like salt, a simple commodity that nobody ever cares about the price.

Oil companies are not super keen on investing and increasing supply, it will destroy profits.

Turning Oil Into Salt: Energy Independence Through Fuel Choice: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6963043-turning-oil-i...

monster_truck • today at 4:07 AM

It's completely incompatible with the SPR

mrdependable • today at 3:51 AM

Will take years to make productive if anyone is even willing to invest in it.

tehjoker • today at 4:11 AM

It's sour crude that requires special infrastructure that our oil companies don't even want to bother investing in. They told Trump as much, he still kidnapped President Maduro, who is as far as I know, still in New York City.

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