Funding Venezuelan tyranny
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was one of many Republicans who came out swinging against the idea, tweeting that the country produces less than 1% of the world's oil "because it is mismanaged by corrupt & incompetent criminals" and saying that any deal would have an insignificant impact on gas prices while providing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with millions of dollars.
"We import about 200,000 barrels of Russian oil a day, and we can easily replace that by just producing 200,000 barrels a day more of our own oil," he said in a subsequent statement. "We can easily do that, very quickly. We don't need oil from Iran, we don't need oil from Venezuela."
But Rubio's Democratic reelection challenger, Val Demings, also came out against the Venezuela talks.
“I am deeply skeptical of the new talks in Venezuela,” she said in a statement. “Maduro and his corrupt cronies must not personally profit from any deal.”
One reason is that Florida, a purple state trending red, is home to more than 200,000 Venezuelans, the Washington Post reported, including recent immigrants who fled the authoritarian regime.
White House officials maintain that the trip was also in support of American citizens who have been jailed in the country, including several oil executives from Citgo, but acknowledged that energy policy was part of the discussions. Russia and Venezuela are allies, so prying apart their relationship could also be a goal of the United States.
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This is just another aspect of Biden's disastrous energy policy. He is trading one rogue producer for two others by trying to get production from Venezuela and Iran to replace Russia when he could get it from honest producers right here in the US. It is another example of the "crude" politics of Big Green.
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