Well, so much for scientific research in Antarctica…it’s about to be a war zone.

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    For comparison, Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserve at 303 billion barrels.

    Winter is coming.

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      Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserve

      Is THAT why we have an aircraft carrier off the coast?

      They’ve got oil and they’re NOT sharing it with rich people?

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        I mean to be fair they just don’t have the infrastructure to extract it anymore. Economic sanctions since the Obama years have mean that the equipment to extract crude has become hard to maintain.

        A graph showing the steep decline of venezuelan oil production since the US economic sanctions

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            No. But they aren’t refusing to sell it. They just don’t have it. And are under various sanctions by the US, EU and most south American countries over human rights abuse so they probably couldn’t sell oil anyway.

            Actually it’s kinda ironic that Venezuela is under sanctions for human rights abuse but not the Gulf states.

            Oh and I wasn’t actually trying to go anywhere with my comment but I do realize how it sounds now. But I am not in favor of invading anyone

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        I read somewhere that a large amount of the refining capacity in America is geared towards dilbit like the one that used to come from Venezuela and now from Canada. Perhaps Venezuelan fishermen’s oil is still cheaper in the end and therefore more desirable.

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          Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the cocaine?

          Not that Venezuela has any. But I think we can all agree that legalizing cocaine and doing lots of cocaine is the most important issue of the day.

          COCAINE!!!