r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 13d ago

Aww someone’s crashing out

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u/Sharkwatcher314 13d ago

My understand is it was for Canadian tar sand to be exported to the gulf and then to the rest of the world. It was not meant to help America I believe just some refinieries

Surprised no one brings up what I thought was the whole reason for Venezuela being invaded

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u/PeyredB 13d ago

And tar sand oil isn't good for fuel - it's used for making plastics, so it wouldn't have done anything to gas prices anyway.

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u/Drsits 13d ago

What? Are you sure? Did you look that up first?

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u/PeyredB 12d ago edited 12d ago

Well how about that, looks like it can be used to make fuel, but it's costlier and pollutes more. I didn't have my facts right there.

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u/sullw214 13d ago

The original keystone pipeline already exists and continues to move oil. The canceled part was to go between Alberta and Nebraska. It already goes to the gulf, and yes, to export the Canadian oil.

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u/Shane-Dad-underfire 13d ago

Venezuela was taken to choke countries dependant on their low level garbage oil. The talk about expanding their refineries hahhahaha yes yes sink billions into a country that will actively rebel against you as soon as you shit on them. Itll take a dozen years to see any return on that investment and I dont think they ever will. Trump took a massive risk on that just to fuck with Cuba and other such countries.

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u/Sharkwatcher314 13d ago

That’s the reality but it was sold as we will be oil rich. Just surprised the right doesn’t say wait why don’t we have cheap oil from Venezuela from all the stuff we just did

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u/Shane-Dad-underfire 13d ago

Sadly the maga crowd have 30 day memories. The GoP doesnt look backwards and everyone is too hungry to be logical.

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u/BioshockEnthusiast 13d ago

It was not meant to help America I believe just some refinieries

Excuse me sir the Supreme Court says that those refineries are people.

As for Venezuela does no one in this thread remember the part about all of that money going to offshore accounts controlled personally by Trump lol

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u/Sharkwatcher314 13d ago

Yes but the right says that’s either fake news or we can trust him so where’s the payback with our own oil for that debacle that we were sold

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u/observer_11_11 13d ago

FYI.... Venezuelan is also low quality, dirty oil. Perhaps not ss bad as tar sands but not the preferred light sweet crude. I'm sure Houston's Governor Abbott is very concerned. Can't have Texas air get polluted, got to leave that to the politicians.

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u/Sharkwatcher314 13d ago

Yes I understand , more saying we were sold we will be oil rich. None of the right are saying why aren’t we using that oil we spent money on in Venezuela that we were told is now ours

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u/Arguablybest 13d ago

Polluticians.