president Maduro captured after US strikes

[quintessentone]

At around a million barrels a day.   Venezuela production really didn’t mean squat to the world.

As time goes on, the crude in the ground might mean something.  But at current production rates, Venezuela production is a drop in the bucket.  



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All I see it meaning is that the American taxpayer is getting fleeced once again because of Trump's ego, the future of selling Venezuela's oil worldwide doesn't pan out from the worldwide oil consumption sources I am reading.

[WallFlowerActive]

From your own source posted previously, it states that oil consumption is not going up but some heading into plateauing while others are decreasing. Do you not read your own sources?

From my source

Global Oil Consumption Reaches All-Time High
Editor OilPrice.com
July 14, 2025 6 min read

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-oi...yx592El4A8

Final ThoughtsThe 2025 Statistical Review confirms that oil is still very much at the center of the global economy. Demand is growing in the developing world, production remains concentrated among a handful of players, and supply vulnerabilities persist.
In the coming weeks, I’ll continue to unpack key findings from the Statistical Review, including natural gas, coal, renewables, and nuclear power trends. But one thing is clear from the oil data: in a world increasingly focused on energy transition, the importance of oil—economically and geopolitically—hasn’t gone anywhere.
By Robert Rapier

[quintessentone]

From my source

It does not matter the ups and down stats of worldwide oil consumption if USA/Venezuela oil will not be bought by those worldwide. Who will be the customers? India?

"India's oil consumption is expected to decrease significantly with the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs).

• The IEA projects that new EVs and energy efficiency improvements will cut India's oil demand growth by 480,000 barrels per day during 2023-30. 
  
  
  
• Additionally, India's growing adoption of EVs is expected to reduce crude demand by 250,000 to 500,000 barrels per day in the medium term. 
  
  
  
• By 2030, EVs are projected to replace more than 5 million barrels of oil per day globally, with significant impacts on India's oil demand. 
  
  
  
• Overall, India's electrification strategy is expected to save approximately $106 billion in oil imports by 2035. 
  
  
  This trend indicates a substantial shift in India's energy consumption, favoring electric vehicles over traditional fossil fuels.
  
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  4 Sources"
  

[WallFlowerActive]

All I see it meaning is that the American taxpayer is getting fleeced once again because of Trump's ego, the future of selling Venezuela's oil worldwide doesn't pan out from the worldwide oil consumption sources I am reading.

Hello.  Venezuela’s current capacity because of neglect of its petroleum industry is less than 1 million barrels a day.  It will take considerable investments in an unstable communist dictatorship to raise production and shipments.

[quintessentone]

Hello.  Venezuela’s current capacity because neglect of its petroleum industry is less than 1 million barrels a day.  It will take considerable investments in an unstable communist dictatorship to raise production and shipments.

You're not getting it. Without customers it's all for nothing.

[WallFlowerActive]

You're not getting it. Without customers it's all for nothing.

You are the one making a big deal about Venezuelan oil where the US alone already produces daily over 20 times what Venezuela produces.

[quintessentone]

You are the one making a big deal about Venezuelan oil where the US alone already produces daily over 20 times what Venezuela produces.

I am pointing out a truth not making a big deal of it, is my act of replying to your responses now considered making a big deal of it - quite the twisted slant on your part? I only responded to you because you were not getting it, not getting that if oil is what Trump wants to steal from that country, that it will only fleece the American taxpayer in the end because there are no longer any customers to make it worthwhile.

[WallFlowerActive]

You're not getting it. Without customers it's all for nothing.

I don’t see militaries, space administrations / rocket / missile fuels, the jet cargo industries, plastics industries, chemical industries, farming / fertilizer industries getting away from hydrocarbons and increasing demands and world populations anytime soon.

[WallFlowerActive]

I am pointing out 

Let’s paraphrase all your bitching.  Supposedly that somehow Venezuela was about oil where it produces less than 1 million barrels a day because of neglect from a dictator reaping the remaining profits for Chinese radar systems that were ineffective where Venezuela was meeting only about 6.9 percent of China’s demand where you claim in ten years countries like China will not even need crude even though they have a growing demand for plastics and chemicals dependent on hydrocarbons.  

Ok.  Your weird.

[quintessentone]

I don’t see militaries, space administrations / rocket / missile fuels, the jet cargo industries, plastics industries, chemical industries, farming / fertilizer industries getting away from hydrocarbons and increasing demands and world populations anytime soon.

Is that your opinion or do you know for sure through credible sources?