The Venezuelan Oil Thread

[jon-nyc]

Uncontrolled liabetes.

[kluurs]

Trump's command of facts, as always, impressive. China uses more wind than coal or natural gas. Here's some of those non-existant wind farms.

Source

[jon-nyc]

You wonder if he actually is that misinformed. I could see it. He just spouts something like that off and those around him, instead of correcting him, just say “what a fantastic insight Mr President”.

[jon-nyc]

Is it more charitable to assume he’s misinformed and won’t brook correction from his staff or that he’s just lying?

[Horace]

He believes to be true what he wishes to be true. Not an uncommon human trait, but he's more like that than virtually anybody. Add to that the charisma, the political instincts for what moves people, and the fact that perception is reality, and you get a powerful political force that won't be replicated in a long while.

[jon-nyc]

From your lips to gods ears.

[Doctor Phibes]

I don't think leaders like Trump are that uncommon, what is unusual is for one to get elected in the USA.

[Renauda]

@Horace said in The Venezuelan Oil Thread:

He believes to be true what he wishes to be true. Not an uncommon human trait, but he's more like that than virtually anybody. Add to that the charisma, the political instincts for what moves people, and the fact that perception is reality, and you get a powerful political force that won't be replicated in a long while.

History is riddled with tyrants as well as schemers, dreamers and thieves of that description. Only in exceptional instances do their follies end in redemption. This one, I predict, will not prove to be an exception.

[jon-nyc]

Steve Jobs was that way. We got some good products out of it but it can be blamed for his early death when, surprisingly, eating carrots didn’t cure his cancer.

[jon-nyc]

said in The Venezuelan Oil Thread:

Darren Woods, who leads the largest U.S. oil company, Exxon Mobil, was especially blunt during a televised portion of the meeting.

“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,” he said. “Today it’s uninvestable.”