https://freerepublic.com/tag/energyweek/ en-us Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:42:01 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4392701/posts Venezuela's new petroleum minister sees her South American home not as a dilapidated former oil giant, but as an emerging energy economy ripe for U.S. and foreign investments in new oil and gas exploration, both onshore and offshore. Paula Henao, who took over as the hydrocarbons minister in March after the forced U.S. removal of former leader Nicolás Maduro, told an overflowing Houston energy audience on Wednesday that Venezuela is much more than just its famed heavy-grade crude oil. There are more than 916 exploration opportunities awaiting foreign investment, she said, including natural gas and other untapped oil basins. She... Fortune via Yahoo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4392701/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:42:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3565198/posts Alleged facelift, I should say. It’d be a fun postscript to this own-goal if the president of the United States got sued by a cable-news host for defamation.As nasty and stupid as it is for him to sink to this, increasingly I think it’s the least he can do for his base. We may not get a decent health-care bill or tax reform or stronger borders but we’ll have plenty of sick media burns to look back on when we reflect on the Trump years. This panem et circenses is the best panem et circenses, believe me: I heard... Hotair https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3565198/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:36:18 GMT