What many people don’t realize is that a significant chunk of our oil processing infrastructure in America is designed for Venezuelas oil specifically. It’s very thick and that means a very different procedure for refinement. Thinner/watery crude oil from other places in the world is much easier to work with and many other places are already set up to refine that oil. Not everyone in the world is set up to process Venezuelas crude oil.
This also means we can’t just get oil somewhere else and run it through those same refineries with the same results. Venezuela has the single largest oil reserves and America spent a lot of time, energy and money to process that oil.
So yes it is about oil, but it’s much more complicated than simply “oil”.
What many people don’t realize is that a significant chunk of our oil processing infrastructure in America is designed for Venezuelas oil specifically. It’s very thick and that means a very different procedure for refinement. Thinner/watery crude oil from other places in the world is much easier to work with and many other places are already set up to refine that oil. Not everyone in the world is set up to process Venezuelas crude oil.
This also means we can’t just get oil somewhere else and run it through those same refineries with the same results. Venezuela has the single largest oil reserves and America spent a lot of time, energy and money to process that oil.
So yes it is about oil, but it’s much more complicated than simply “oil”.