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Biden looks to Venezuela for a bailout
American Thinker ^ | 6 Mar, 2022 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 03/07/2022 4:51:06 AM PST by MtnClimber

Joe Biden is in a bind.

Like everything else, he's blown it. Energy prices have gone through the roof, with gasoline prices at the pump pushing $6.00 a gallon in San Diego alone. They're expected to get higher, and each tic upward takes Joe down another notch in the polls. Biden has throttled U.S. capacity to produce its own energy by ending domestic drilling leases on federal lands. He's also scuppered the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada. In place of that domestic and Canadian energy, we now buy Russian oil, some 600,000 barrels a day -- which just happens to finance Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine. The idea of putting sanctions on Putin, while keeping his oil money stream open, is like putting a bath plug on the bottom of a boat and ignoring the huge gash on the side.

"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up," as President Obama used to say.

What's an incompetent president to do? Not reverse his bad decisions on domestic energy production, of course. Joe's looking for a bailout -- from Venezuela.

His latest scheme is to turn to Nicolas Maduro, the odious Marxist dictator who turned oil-rich Venezuela into a Cuba-style ruin to replace Russian oil.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: biden; communism; cuba; iran; oil; opec; russia; venezuela
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1 posted on 03/07/2022 4:51:06 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left is like a suicide cult.


2 posted on 03/07/2022 4:51:15 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on mycreen name for my FR home page.)
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We all get screwed as Biden goes around hat in hand to all of the oil producers trying to get them to bail him out of his own mess. Yet the mainstream media will act like he is doing some great diplomacy and deal making! Truly disgusting.


3 posted on 03/07/2022 4:57:18 AM PST by databoss
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To: MtnClimber

Q: How is the Iran supporting Venezuelan government any better than the Russians?!


4 posted on 03/07/2022 4:58:47 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's and America's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: MtnClimber

The left is like a suicide cult.

…who wants to take the rest of America with them.


5 posted on 03/07/2022 5:04:51 AM PST by excalibur21
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To: MtnClimber

Is Venezuela even producing significant quantities of oil? Going back some years, I read their production had collapsed because the oil field workers and technocrats weren’t getting paid, and had skills that were valuable elsewhere, and so had bailed out.


6 posted on 03/07/2022 5:10:07 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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“The left is like a suicide cult”

I have thought this probably since the 70s...

The left enjoys modern industrial things, they just don’t like the mess.

So their solution is to export the mess such as steel production or chemical production or oil production. God forbid we should do it here because it’s so dirty... so let’s just let the peons in other countries do it for us and then we don’t have to worry about getting our hands filthy or our nose hairs fouled with odiferous particles.


7 posted on 03/07/2022 5:10:47 AM PST by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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“The left enjoys modern industrial things, they just don’t like the mess.

So their solution is to export the mess such as steel production or chemical production or oil production. God forbid we should do it here because it’s so dirty... so let’s just let the peons in other countries do it for us and then we don’t have to worry about getting our hands filthy or our nose hairs fouled with odiferous particles”

They are also in favor of slavery; they can have a lot and not pay much for it. But the optics upset them, so they prefer to keep it as far away as possible.


8 posted on 03/07/2022 5:20:24 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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Why didn't any previous president think of that? I mean, asking some third world sh!thole with a collapsing economy to help out the US, is just pure genius! Maybe Joe is 'best buds' with the socialist moron in charge down there - you know, like Starsky & Hutch! Hey, maybe Venezuela can tell Joe how to "shut down" inflation, or better yet, how to handle all of his 'nazi' critics, and 'misinformation' about election fraud. Maduro to the rescue!

\ sarc

9 posted on 03/07/2022 5:29:06 AM PST by Who is John Galt? ("Shoeless Joe" played for the White Sox; "Clueless Joe" lives in the White House...)
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What???? That dirty oil???? Clean energy is all we allow in Joebama’s world. This is beyond stupid.


10 posted on 03/07/2022 5:33:13 AM PST by Hattie
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How the mighty have fallen.


11 posted on 03/07/2022 5:37:54 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: MtnClimber

Outrageous.


12 posted on 03/07/2022 5:38:35 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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Utterly nuts, yet the media continue to prop him up like he was legitimately elected in the first place.


13 posted on 03/07/2022 5:41:07 AM PST by OKSooner (Defend America first. Let the Limeys and the Frogs and the Krauts take care of Europe.)
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To: Clutch Martin

If we buy EXPENSIVE oil from overseas and burn it here instead of producing MUCH less expensive oil here, there will be much less CO2 produced.

It’s like sitting at a table while you eat without a mask doesn’t spread COVID.

See, the left is very consistent with their rules!


14 posted on 03/07/2022 5:47:57 AM PST by politicianslie (Those who got vaxxed need to update their wills. You are a test guinea pig & Just starting test!)
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To: MtnClimber

We all realize that average citizens were forced to choose between starvation and eating their own pets not too long ago, don’t we???

..And now, our politicians are seeking AID from that place???

This is beyond fiction.


15 posted on 03/07/2022 5:52:53 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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The odds of Venezuela, a Russian ally, providing the U.S. with more oil or natural gas are slim to none. Today, the Chinese foreign minister, stated that Beijing's ties with Moscow were crucial. Chinese banks have come into the gap to replace Russian dependence on Western financial entities.

Make no mistake. The Communist bloc is back, with a Chinese-Russian axis and spokes like Cuba, North Korea, Iran, etc. The alt-right fables of Putin as a Christian and traditionalist crusader nobly fighting the New World Order are as much nonsense as the disinformation coming out of the American and British media and governments of massive Russian defeats and widespread dissension in Russia.

The Russians and the Chinese believe the Wests terminally decadent, observe their governments are moving into anarcho-tyranny, and note that Biden is possibly the weakest and most stupid American President ever. Putin and Xi are taking advantage of the weaknesses to take America and the West down a notch.

16 posted on 03/07/2022 5:58:30 AM PST by Wallace T.
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Thanks for posting this. Ms. Showalter is a fav.


17 posted on 03/07/2022 6:03:15 AM PST by upchuck (The longer I remain unjabbed with the clot-shot, the more evidence I see supporting my decision.)
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Is there a commie tyrant anywhere in the world that Josef TalyBiden doesn’t lust to sniff their hair or grope their kids ?

I can see him digging up marx, Stalin , Mao and lennin for just one sniff !

.


18 posted on 03/07/2022 6:03:23 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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The communists gnawing away inside our government are not looking to increase oil for the US. They are looking for ways to throw money and support towards the communist regime in Venezuela.


19 posted on 03/07/2022 6:06:39 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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This isn’t stupid on paper, but my guess is he’s actually trying to convince Maduro to raise prices and cut supply, so that Americans will suffer even more.


20 posted on 03/07/2022 6:11:02 AM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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