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First Iranian oil tanker docks in Venezuela
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| May 25, 2020
| AFP
Posted on 05/25/2020 3:38:45 PM PDT by buckalfa
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Much ado about nothing but I am sure the fake news will spin this into a major foreign policy failure on the part of the President.
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posted on
05/25/2020 3:38:45 PM PDT
by
buckalfa
To: buckalfa
Saw elsewhere that the tankers were carrying oil and “components”
Components to what?
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posted on
05/25/2020 3:41:00 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: buckalfa
Pretty sad when you have to deliver oil to a country with the largest oil reserves on Earth. Bet it had more than just oil onboard.
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posted on
05/25/2020 3:48:35 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
To: buckalfa
Importing oil from the Middle East when you have the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere is the exact opposit of “Self Determination.”
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posted on
05/25/2020 3:59:43 PM PDT
by
John Milner
(Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
To: buckalfa
Much ado about nothing but I am sure the fake news will spin this into a major foreign policy failure on the part of the President. Thereby insinuating that he should have blockaded Iranian ships from entering sovereign Venezuelan waters.
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posted on
05/25/2020 4:00:37 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: buckalfa
Yup, much ado about nothing
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posted on
05/25/2020 4:04:03 PM PDT
by
SecAmndmt
(Arm yourselves!)
To: Nateman
Venezuela is a case study in how bad socialism fails: one of the largest oil producers in the world runs out of gas and needs to call AAA.
To: buckalfa
Who gives a care. I got enough to worry about here at home.
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posted on
05/25/2020 4:07:04 PM PDT
by
onona
(I'm sure there's more)
To: buckalfa
Wow.
What an unabashed combination of USA bashing and rah-rah Venuzuelan boosterism.
Everything is the fault of the United States.
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posted on
05/25/2020 4:08:33 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: buckalfa
I thought we were going to stop them?
To: buckalfa
Stupid attempt at provocation. A tanker full of gasoline is a drop in the bucket but it will keep the elite’s limos on the streets for a while. This is people giving gasoline they can’t sell to people who can’t pay. The Iranians have developed a world-class talent for flushing cash into third-world toilets and getting nothing in return.
To: BenLurkin
Different refined products. Gasoline, probably also diesel, motor oil range distillation cut.
The response of the US should be the following....let them unload, and when the debark for their return trip, board and confiscate the ships. Then either auction the ships off, or offload the fuel oil and scuttle them.
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posted on
05/25/2020 4:19:12 PM PDT
by
Wonder Warthog
(No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
To: John Milner
"Importing oil from the Middle East when you have the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere is the exact opposit of Self Determination." They're not carrying OIL. They are carrying REFINED OIL PRODUCTS (gasoline, diesel, and similar) which the Venezuelans can no longer produce for themselves, because they have screwed up their own refineries so badly and driven off the educated class that once ran and maintained them.
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posted on
05/25/2020 4:21:40 PM PDT
by
Wonder Warthog
(No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
To: Wonder Warthog
Plus fuel for the presidents jet.
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posted on
05/25/2020 4:26:02 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Nateman
Saying the same, check the cargo
To: 2aProtectsTheRest
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years thered be a shortage of sand.
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posted on
05/25/2020 4:27:09 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
To: buckalfa
Kind of makes you wish you had a submarine.. :)
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posted on
05/25/2020 4:28:20 PM PDT
by
unread
(A REPUBLIC..! if you can keep it....)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
"Plus fuel for the presidents jet." Jet fuel is of the same molecular weight distillation cut as kerosene (heavier than gasoline, lighter than diesel).
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posted on
05/25/2020 4:49:15 PM PDT
by
Wonder Warthog
(No Longer Tolerating Trolls!)
To: Wonder Warthog
We made a 20 percent blend of Light Cycle Oil with N2FO and sold it as railroad diesel.
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posted on
05/25/2020 4:56:20 PM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: DoodleDawg
I thought we were going to stop them?What made you think that?
I don't recall hearing of even the slightest indication that the United States was going to intervene to prevent this.
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posted on
05/25/2020 5:00:29 PM PDT
by
Drew68
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