DougDoug
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1,328 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Mar
DougDoug’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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imports of Venezuela oil to the U.S.
And you can see in like 70s and 80s, it's getting there.
And then from 90 to like 97, it just skyrockets.
And we are just getting a ton of oil from Venezuela.
It starts plummeting in 2005 when the nationalization starts and then, you know, becomes zero.
They're like Goldfinger.
Like they somehow survive through each change in Venezuela.
Like apparently they're just like really politically adept in Venezuela.
They're the only American company that got to stay.
Littlefinger, sorry.
So this is, so first off, there's a funny thing.
Again, all the oil companies, the big ones, were in Venezuela and they had all their shit just taken, just straight up taken.
And they're, in Exxon's case, twice.
They like went in again.
They're like, ah, we trust you this time.
Okay, two counterpoints to the hesitation from oil companies.
So first off, there's a quote here from Bloomberg.
At one point, Trump asked Ryan Lance, one of the oil CEOs, how much the company had lost in Venezuela, prompting the ConocoPhillips CEO to say it had taken a $12 billion loss
Trump says it's a good write-off.
No, look, if your company, look, so it's quite obvious.
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