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Donald Trump has suggested US taxpayers could reimburse energy companies for repairing Venezuelan infrastructure for extracting and shipping oil.

Trump acknowledged that “a lot of money” would need to be spent to increase oil production in Venezuela after US forces ousted its leader, Nicolás Maduro, but suggested his government could pay oil companies to do the work.

“A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue,” the president said.

The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, reportedly plans to meet representatives of Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil at the Goldman Sachs Energy, Clean Tech & Utilities Conference in Miami later this week.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

FUCK THAT!

If taxpayers pay for it, then taxpayers should receive the profits.

Why the fuck should taxpayers finance capitalist ventures that only enrich the shareholders?

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

Because fascism == corporatism, and we'rr living under a fascist regime.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I hate to break it to you, but Trump sort of wants all of our money.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Greedy bastards will never be satisfied.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

At my age I think that is the only course in system that allows unrestricted hoarding of resources.

I don't think these people have anything outside of their need to hoard in life. It is a mental illness.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I agree with you completely and I've been calling it out for years. People treated me like I was a crackpot for saying things like "infinite pursuit of growth is neither possible nor desirable." Or "life isn't a zero-sum game and a system that's built to uplift everyone is better than a system designed to maximize gains for a few."

Clearly there aren't many leftists around me, or at least the ones who are hate me for different reasons. Maybe because I said MLs are authoritarians and no better than maga. I like democracy, it's capitalism that needs to go. The Nordic model seemed to work just fine until right-wing propagandists invaded Scandinavia.

Oh, I also compared capitalists to cancerous growths, and that made the oligarchs feel so oppressed. Maybe that's why billionaires these days are comparing themselves to holocaust victims. Those poor billionaires... won't anyone think of the shareholders?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

they are also obsessed with longevity, they want to outlive the people they exploited so they dont come after them, plus to remain relevant.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Well I hope their bodies reject the transplants and they die on the operating table

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Clearly there aren't many leftists around me

Sounds likely. I don't know many that aren't terrified of a society that glorifies unreasonable accumulation.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

Because they think it would allow them to do the same...

...while they work into their seventies because a full retirement is out of reach for most of the working class...

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

his wealth has grown like 3x since he was elected, before that he was losing quite a bit of money fending of lawsuits and other cases in court.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Cool, we can just make a new currency. Anyone else like tally sticks?

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm no expert and would love to be told if this is wrong, from what I've heard, oil companies won't be doing jack shit so I don't think you will need to worry about your tax dollars reimbursing them.

Oil is barely profitable for investment at the moment.

If it was they could invest into US oil in the permian basin where there is still billions of barrels to go. Drill baby drill, I belive they say.

Investment would be much more stable in the US because fuck knows what is going to happen in venuzula in the next year, let alone in the next administration. They would probably lose it all over again.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It would be profitable for them if they get the taxpayers to cover all their expenses while keeping the gains for themselves.

It would be evil, but capitalism doesn't care about that. They only care about what's profitable, even if everyone else suffers as a result.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, well yeah if the tax payers are tax paying then yes they are pretty fucked but I still don't see them actually building anything.

He couldn't even build a wall last time, she'll be right mate.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

I like your optimism, but walls don't extract oil...