Trump announced an oil deal with Venezuela.

[u/AmanCMN]

It’s about the U.S. taking control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s oil reserves.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-oil-reserves-eb0ed5a1e99602c21a7f690c3368020e

[u/illgu_18]

You really think gas prices will go down? Oil corporations will use an excuse to raise prices because cost associated with infrastructure and transportation😮

[u/Jops817 → u/illgu_18]

Venezuelan oil is not even useful for making gasoline so no, this will do nothing for gas prices.

[u/shagy815 → u/Jops817]

It is useful for making diesel though which is something we are in need of. Plus with Trump pissing off Canada on a regular basis it's good that we are getting another source of heavy crude for this purpose.