Donald Trump has suggested US taxpayers could reimburse energy companies for repairing Venezuelan infrastructure for extracting and shipping oil.

Trump acknowledged that “a lot of money” would need to be spent to increase oil production in Venezuela after US forces ousted its leader, Nicolás Maduro, but suggested his government could pay oil companies to do the work.

“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” the president said.

The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, reportedly plans to meet representatives of Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil at the Goldman Sachs Energy, Clean Tech & Utilities Conference in Miami later this week.

  • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    Everybody who voted for this imbecile should be forced to reimburse the rest of the world for the damage he and his cronies are doing. Everything they own plus twelve years of indentured servitude would be a very small first step.

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      At least. Honesty, when they’re starving in the coming depression and when their kids are bleeding out on a battlefield, they’ll suffer enough. They might not be cognizant of it and they’ll do the whole mental gymnastics but those conditions affect your subconscious and physical health beyond what you can ignore

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      You really think things would be different if the other sock puppet got elected?

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        Things would be different, but not what we deserve. We deserve multiple political parties to choose from that represent us all. Not a duo poly holding us hostage.

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        3 days ago

        Are you questioning what the impact of electing someone as president does, or were you simply aiming for the dumbest comment of 2026?

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        The other candidate would probably try to at least keep the appearances that we live in a civilized world, and that international law and treaties work. The Big Orange Turd doesn’t care for such niceties.

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          There’s the quiet sneaky puppet and the loud aggressive puppet. They switch them appropriately. They’re basically there to give us something to yell at.

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        They’re not thinking at all. They are just using talking points from their “party” on deflecting any responsibility for the fascist actions of their country and turning the blame on someone else to feel self righteous.

        Hypocrisy is something yankistanis are born with. Pathetic spineless rags.

        Have no doubt, they’ll throw anyone under the bus. They’re only bothered this war criminal is from the wrong party, other wise they’d be kissing ass.