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This is all election year posturing. The PR Electric Power Authority has always been able to buy fuel from all over the world. However, the EPA told it that the Venezuelan fuel was too dirty and they can’t use that anymore.

Also, the PR goverment owns no refineries, so how the heck do they expect to “lower the price at the gasoline pump” by buying Venezuelan oil? If PR buys Venezuelan oil, they would just have to sell it to Gulf Caribe or to Sunoco for refining, no?

Again, this is all hogwash.

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Again, this is all hogwash.

That may be true, but the most telling part of this whole thread is the subtle and not so subtle hate that rears its ugly head every time there is a Puerto Rico related thread.

[Ben Ficklin]

Puerto Rico gets a lot of its refined product from the Hovensa refinery in St Croix.

Hovensa is owned by Hess Oil and PVDSA. That refinery was built to crack and refine the heavy Vensuela crude.