Relying on electricity for heat seems kinda dumb

 

Trump can jerk everybody around about this and that, day in and day out, but he can't do anything about inflation

 Natural gas prices soar as cold snap blasts across the U.S.

Natural gas prices soar as Arctic cold to blast Upper Midwest and descend across U.S.

In October 2024 to The Detroit Economic Club Trump promised he'd cut our electricity bills in half by now lol

 

Everybody thinks Trump can make gasoline cheap again, but under Obama in Jan 2016 it was 47-cents per gallon in Michigan

 

The average price of gasoline in year one of Trump 2.0 . . . SUCKED

 

Trump has done little to speed replenishment of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve gutted by Biden: 413.4 million barrels as of 1/2/26 vs. 695.1 million in Jan 2016

 

In December 2025, gasoline still averaged over $3/gallon, electricity was effectively still at the all time high, and natural gas was still at the crazy 2022-2023 levels

 

ExxonMobil tells Trump that Venezuela is uninvestable [sic], Trump stiffs ConocoPhillips, Chevron, already there, is ready to go go go

 What the Big Oil executives told Trump about investing in Venezuela

... “We’ve had our assets seized there twice, and so you can imagine to re-enter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we’ve historically seen here,” Woods told Trump at the White House. “If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela today, it’s uninvestable.” ...

ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance congratulated Trump on ousting former President Nicolás Maduro. He said the banking sector will need to help restructure Venezuela’s debt and provide billions of dollars in financing for the restore [sic] the country’s infrastructure. ... Trump told the Conoco CEO that the U.S. government is not looking at recovering the assets the company lost during the 2007 nationalization.

“We’re not going to look at what people lost in the past, because that was their fault,” Trump said. “That was a different president. You’re going to make a lot of money, but we’re not going to go back.” ...

Vice Chairman Mark Nelson said Chevron has a way forward to rapidly ramp up its production, which currently stands at about 240,000 barrels per day.

“We have a path forward here very shortly to be able to increase our liftings from those joint ventures 100% essentially effective immediately,” Nelson told Trump. “We are also able to increase our production within our own disciplined investment schemes by about 50% just in the next 18 to 24 months.” ...

Trump wouldn't know high quality oil if it started comin' out of his . . . whatever

 

As usual Trump puts the cart before the horse: If you don't already have total access, you're not in charge

And you don't put protective tariffs on trade when you have nothing to protect.

 

“We’re in charge,” he told reporters. “We need total access. We need access to the oil and to other things in their country that allow us to rebuild their country.”

More. 

China may have been buying up to 80% of Venezuelan oil exports, but that amounts to just 4% of China's imported supply

 Ample oil supply shields China from impact of Venezuela disruption, for now

 

They're licking their chops over Venezuela's $17 trillion worth of crude oil

 

U.S. in Prime Position To Unlock Venezuela's Vast Oil Reserves

Eaton, et al., WSJ