Stephen Portnoy
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 2d ago
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It has to be refined and diluted in order to turn into gasoline or jet fuel or any other kind of oil that we use in the marketplace.
It's not easy to do that, and the infrastructure in Venezuela that
exists now needs to be substantially updated.
That's gonna take a lot of time and a lot of money.
American oil companies are gonna have to get on board.
For them to be enticed to do this, they're gonna need some substantial guarantees from the government of Venezuela, which right now is being run by an interim president.
And that interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, over the weekend, was confronting the fears that people in her country have that she's essentially signing away rights to their valuable natural resources to American imperialists.
Ever get their hands on this.
It's ours.
And the reason that Delcy Rodriguez is confronting these fears is because this whole idea of socialism i in Latin America and the nationalized oil sector in particular in Venezuela sort of stems from the 20th century practice of Western powers coming in and taking the oil.
Right.
So the idea of Delcy Rodriguez having to say in a statement over the weekend.
that Venezuela will retain the ownership and the sovereignty is significant.
Look, there are a lot of questions about this.
When it comes to the overall impact on what it means to Americans today, it's much more of a thing in the future than it is now.
months away today?
There really shouldn't be any doubt, Brad, that what's driving this is the president looking at the electoral calendar, he's looking at frustrations, he's looking at the inflation figures that you mentioned, so is Kevin Walsh.
He's been urging the Federal Reserve since he returned to office to lower interest rates, and now there's the prospect that the Fed may actually have to raise interest rates to keep inflation in check.
So uh I I think the president is uh reaching for a broad vision here.
Right.
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