Mike Adams – Natural News Aug 31, 2026
Why Trump’s Venezuelan Oil ‘Deal’ Is a Fantasy
President Trump is selling the American people a fantasy. The announcement of a “historic” deal with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of oil is a masterpiece of political theater, but it is not a solution to our energy problems. It is a coerced arrangement, a midterm election stunt, and a logistical impossibility that will do nothing to lower gas prices for years to come, if ever.
This deal is not a negotiation between equals. It was made with the barrel of a gun. The terms are being dictated to a Venezuelan government that exists only because U.S. Special Forces kidnapped its president and effectively installed a new “friendly” leader. The claim that this will double American reserves and provide cheap gas is a delusion. In this article, I will break down why the oil is inaccessible, unrefinable, and worthless in the short term.
A ‘Deal’ Made at Gunpoint
To call this agreement a “deal” is to ignore the reality of how it came about. This is a transaction made at gunpoint. The United States invaded Venezuela, orchestrated a coup, and abducted its democratically elected president, Nicolás Maduro, who is now locked in a U.S. federal prison. This isn’t diplomacy; it’s a shakedown. President Trump has even bragged that Venezuelan oil is “one of the spoils” of the military operation. [1].
Where is the text of Trump’s claimed agreement? The world has been given a few vague statements on Truth Social and a press conference with the U.S.-imposed Acting President Delcy Rodriguez. For a deal the president claims is “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY,” the lack of transparency is staggering. [2].
It’s a secretive, unverifiable promise built on nothing more than the president’s tweets. Even if the U.S. gains nominal control over these reserves, producing them is another matter entirely.
Venezuela’s oil industry is in a state of catastrophic collapse. The infrastructure is dilapidated, the skilled workforce has fled, and the state-owned company PDVSA is a shell of its former self. Reviving this industry to meaningful production levels would at least a full decade and require over $100 billion in investment, as I and others have pointed out all along. [3]. The notion that this will “substantially lower gas prices” is absurd on its face.
The Worst Oil in the World?
Beyond the politics, there’s the fundamental physics and chemistry of the oil itself. Making heroic claims about this crude without understanding its characteristics is like promising to fill your car’s tank with chocolate milk. It simply won’t work. Venezuelan crude is some of the worst on earth. It’s an extra-heavy, sour grade with a sulfur content of around 5.7%. This is not light, sweet crude; it is thick, sludgy, and highly corrosive. [4].
The most critical problem is that this corrosive, acidic oil will severely damage or even destroy the caverns of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). It would ruin the very infrastructure the deal claims to replenish. [5]. Furthermore, the U.S. refining base is currently running at near maximum capacity, around 96%. More importantly, these refineries are not configured to process this specific heavy grade. Converting them to handle it would cost billions of dollars and take years of work. While some U.S. refineries, like Chevron’s along the Gulf Coast, are starting to process limited amounts, this is a drop in the bucket compared to the fantasy of 65 billion barrels. [6].
Venezuelan production has fallen by 70% from its historical peak due to sanctions and disinvestment. Even the most optimistic estimates for boosting new production are trivial when compared to the scale of the problem. It is a fantasy oil deal because the oil being touted is the worst possible kind, and we can’t even refine it at scale.
No Spare Refinery Capacity, No Strategic Reserve Fit
The president’s plan to use this oil to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not just a miscalculation; it’s a physical impossibility. As mentioned, the high acidity of Venezuelan crude would corrode the salt caverns used for storage, rendering the oil unusable and potentially damaging the reserve permanently. The idea that we are going to fill our national emergency stockpile with a liquid that will eat it from the inside out is a sign that this decision was made for public relations reasons, not energy security. [7].
Then, there’s the state of the U.S. refining industry. With refineries already at an average 96% capacity, creating a market for this unrefined, heavy goo is impossible without shutting down other inputs. Adding this crude would actually force refiners to displace lighter grades they are currently processing, which would reduce gasoline fuel output and drive gas prices up, not down.
It cannot even be transported through existing pipelines without being diluted with lighter hydrocarbons like naphtha. Naphtha is a component that is itself in short supply and high demand, which would add more cost to a product that was supposed to be “a gift” to American consumers. [7]. This entire scheme is meant to manufacture a cheap-energy political narrative that falls apart the moment you do the math, chemistry, and logistics.
A Political Lie and Moral Outrage
So why announce a deal that is based on such fiction? This is all for the midterms, obviously. President Trump wants to convince voters he can control gas prices, but the mathematics and the physical reality of the oil market prove otherwise. This is a calculated political move designed to create a narrative of American strength and energy dominance, even as the actual wells continue to veer toward collapse. The claimed billions in revenue to offset the military operation paint a dark picture of a policy rooted in plunder and piracy. [8].
Morally, this is theft. This is not a trade agreement; it’s a business deal forced by an occupying army. The U.S. is pillaging a sovereign nation’s resources under duress, repeating the imperial history of resource extraction that has caused so much suffering in the Global South. As I have seen time and again in my reporting over the years, this is about the wealthy elite profiting from war, not about helping the American people. [9].
Cheering the exploitation of a defeated nation is a betrayal of every principle this country claims to stand for. We should reject this dishonesty and refuse to be complicit in the destruction of another country’s sovereignty for a soundbite.
The oil of Venezuela belongs to the people of Venezuela, not to Trump. And not to America’s gas-guzzling consumers, either.
References
- Venezuelan oil is ‘victor’s spoils’ – Trump. – RT.com. August 6, 2026.
- Trump Announces Deal With Venezuela for US to Take Ownership of 65 Billion Barrels of Oil. – The Epoch Times. August 29, 2026.
- Trump’s Venezuela Oil Plan Runs Into Hard Reality. – ZeroHedge.com. Andrew Topf. March 4, 2026.
- Para-Market Analysis of Unconventional Liquid Fuel Sources and Their Competitive Entry into the Market. – Mehmet Erturk. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 15 (2011) 2766-2771.
- President Trump Announces Venezuelan Oil Will Refill America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve. – 100percentfedup.com. August 30, 2026.
- The US refinery now processing Venezuelan oil. Chevron is now importing 250,000 barrels of crude per day from Venezuela. – BBC.com. April 8, 2026.
- Trump Says Venezuelan Oil Will Be Used to Fill Up Strategic Petroleum Reserve. – The Epoch Times. August 30, 2026.
- Trump Says Venezuela’s Oil Generated Over $13 Billion. Where Did It Go? – The New American. July 29, 2026.
- Mike Adams interview with Doug Thornton. – Mike Adams. September 22, 2023.
- Trump Close To ‘Massive’ Deal For Seizing Stake In Venezuela’s Vast Oil Fields. – ZeroHedge.com. August 27, 2026.
- Trump administration moves to replenish depleted Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid global oil price drop. – NaturalNews.com. January 21, 2026.
- US spreads misery across the globe imposing sanctions on a third of humanity. – NaturalNews.com. January 5, 2023.
The jews of the NWO like to celebrate victories
by using that day gain and again
they believe by doing this they can capture the essence and spirit of that victory
Nutanyahu wanted to celebrate the fall if Russia to the jewish bolsheviks on october 7 1917
which led to the murders of between 66 to 110 million christians
so Nutty arranged on that day to open jewish borders and let in Hamas where they could be destroyed in one go
Israel had satelite monitoring from the moment Hamas stared to gather
CCTV on israels walls
But Hamas did not kill but took prisoners, these they put in the tunnels
as a bargaining chip, which the jews then bombed
Hamas opened the two child brothels, the children were filmed walking out before being killed by the IDF
This celebration of special dates of victory was also done by the jewish ass kisser Tony Blair
when he copied the festival of Britain, with his Millenium Dome
but everything went so wrong, they had to call in an exorcist
How ironic. If the US had bought Venezuelan oil from the markets over the past decade or two, to provide investment into the country and the US refineries that need that oil, they could now rely upon those products reaching the pumps like Trump tries to claim those products are coming; but instead they shut it all down then stole what’s left of the industry and now get nothing.
Who plans a robbery like that? Not competent businessmen.
Netanyahu Brags to Israeli Voters That He Manipulated and blackmailed Trump Into Attacking Iran
and america is under his heel
August 31, 2026 Baxter Dmitry 3 Comments
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a firestorm of criticism after boasting that he spent “1000 hours” on American television to manipulate U.S. policy, finally convincing Washington to attack Iran. During an interview…]
Simon Rocker
MI5 for many years avoided recruiting Jews as spies out of concern about their potential first loyalty to Israel, according to a new book published this week.
they bombed the british in the king david hotel outrage and did the london 7 -7 bombing
MI 5 policy stemmed from the years of Israel’s struggle against its neighbours and then the security services feared terrorist attacks on Britain by militant Zionist groups.
The revelation comes in The Defence of the Realm, an authorised history of M15 based on some of its archives, by Chistopher Andrew.
Although some Jews were enlisted, most notably Victor, Lord Rothschild, who set up M15’s first counter-sabotage department during the Second World War, Professor Andrew writes: “The post-war Service refused to recruit Jews on the grounds that their dual loyalty to both Britain and Israel would create an unacceptable conflict of interest.”
He quotes one MI5 section head, John Marriot, saying in 1955 that “our policy is to avoid recruiting Jews if possible” unless they had qualifications that were needed. One woman was rejected the following year because she was a practising Jew.
“As late as 1974,” Prof Andrew writes, “when it was agreed that there was ‘no general bar on the recruitment of Jews of British nationality’, there was still prejudice against zionist observant Jews and those of distinctively Jewish ‘physical appearance and demeanour’.”
His book devotes one chapter to the threat of Zionist extremism as the militant Irgun and Stern Gang launched attacks on British troops in Palestine. Reports circulated in autumn 1946 that the wanted Irgun leader Menachem Begin was intending to travel to the UK.
Begin a known pedophile was Jimmy Savilles first protector
In 1947 the Colonial Office in Whitehall survived a Stern Gang bomb — only because the timer failed — and the same group sent letter bombs to British politicians that year.
Although most British Jewish organisations did not oppose terrorism, a few Jews were suspected of planning terrorist attacks here. In one case, in July 1947, grenades and detonators were discovered, by his chauffeur, in the boot of the car of Harry Isaac Presman of north London, but under pressure from Rothschild he pleaded ignorance and the police did not charge him.
The authorities were concerned about arms purchases for the Zionist underground and illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine to beat the tight British quota.
Prof Andrew writes: “The Security Service believed that, as a result of its penetration of the Jewish organisations in London and other intelligence sources,
Elsewhere in the book Prof Andrew records how the notorious double-agent Kim Philby, the first of the Cambridge Five, ( anthony blunt was first ) was recruited for the KGB by Arnold Deutsch, a Jewish Communist from central Europe who was studying in London and who was a cousin of Odeon cinema founder, Oscar Deutsch.
(this is bollox) Victor Rothschild employed homosexual socialists
The first of the apostle spy team was Anthony Blunt who mainly spied on the royals and supplied small boys before Jimmy Saville took over now its Micael Gove
Many years later, Philby’s treachery was exposed after Flora Solomon, a zionist activist, and part time prostitute told Victor Rothschild, in a conversation at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, that Philby had tried to recruit her for the KGB. ( total bollox )
In the 1970s MI5 was worried about some of the Jewish business associates of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Joseph Kagan, Rudy Sternberg and Harry Kissin, whose dealings in Eastern Europe made them potential targets of Soviet espionage. All became peers.
Kagan was courted by a KGB officer who successfully persuaded him to ask Jewish leaders in the UK to call off demonstrations on behalf of Soviet Jewry. One MI5 officer said he did not think Kagan was “likely to become a conscious Soviet agent but I am sure he has been a valuable source of information”.
Kissin’s taste for call girls also made him a dubious confidant of Wilson’s, MI5 has been very lax as israel has taken control for some time, Malcolm Rifkind was appointed boss of MI5 by cousin of David Cameron, Malcolm known as ” malcolm the poof”
was implicated in monetary scandals
Billboard truck calls out antisemitism in neighborhoods
targeted weekly by anti-Israel protesters
shame they did not protest about the genocides
Notting Hill Carnival clean-up sees 300 tonnes of rubbish cleared
Story by Megan Howe • 3h •
any knives or syringes were to be handed in
The tell with respect to American sincerity and there being no real opposition to the evil which the US has become is that no one, no “NO ONE”, in that nation, not in the US legislatures, in the mainstream media, or in the alternative media, or in the public EVEN ASKS what happened to the Maduro’s whom the US special forces kidnapped last January. No one seems to care if they are in some America miliary prison, dungeon, hotel, or even if they have been murdered. They seem to have disappeared as if the kidnappings never really happened.
No one seems to care if they will be tried as criminals on Trumped-up charges of the alleged crime of “drug trafficking”, which they obvioulsy did not commit or endorse, and which in any case is a highly lucrative US industry just like human trafficking, and very-much protected on that same basis. If ever a trial for the Maduro’s, then it would be as fake as the Trump kangaroo trials and much like the one going on with the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk – all fake for a consumer culture needing a steady diet of fakery, violence, horror and pretended justice.
The voracious appetite of the American consumer economy measuring prosperity by restless activity movements of the markets has to be fed with ever-expanding military sorties into foreign lands and illegal invasions. and all with endless thievery and plundering. It is much like throwing huge hunks of raw meat into a den of ravenous beasts who are deluding into thinking their victuals just happen from the zoo keepers, and not really sourced by the human slaughterhouses around the world. .
Yet, the majority of the American people do know that their business empire is stained and sustained by military threats, wars and invasions, but they also think that as their God-given right. It is now a nation and a people governed by a curious mixture of harnessed greed, and a pragmatism based on the principle that might makes right. In any case the American dream of being able to go from rags to riches has generally always been without regard to the methods. Having wealth and power is proof of entitlement.
The nation’s amalgamation with Israel, which is the most barbarous, ruthless and selfish nation on the face of the earth, in fact constitutes the new American identity. The Gaza genocide and the long-planned war to defeat and exploit the sweet oil of Iran, are joint US-Israeli operations, signalling to the world that the US empire has long traded its Christian principles and its image of liberty, decency, and hope for the world, for the bloody pottage of a sociopathic exclusivity. Their good-cop-bad-cop facade between communism and capitalism, which they played us for over a half a century, collapsed of its own weight with open trade with communist China. In fact the US is now leading the way in methods of ruling through technocratic and totalitarian deceptions, fearmongering, and oppression.
Oh yeah! That’s a REAL DEAL! Send some of Holly Weirds acting soldiers over to a sovereign cuntry, kid-napp the Dicktator and smuggle him into the land where milk and money flows for “processing” and “buy” some very cheap oil in the process – without a Pence to spent. Trump surely must be the best Statesmobman ever while solely caring for the well being of Murica! Praise the Christian Lord for that.
@ MM spot on
“Venezuelan crude is some of the worst on earth. It’s an extra-heavy, sour grade with a sulfur content of around 5.7%. This is not light, sweet crude; it is thick, sludgy, and highly corrosive.” The thing is, Citgo stations were selling that “worst on earth” Venezuelan petrol in the US for decades and it was as good as anything else available, and usually at a better price. Maybe it required more refinement beforehand, I don’t know, but it was plenty good out of the pump.
What the jewnited states has done to Venezuela has been psychotic.
trump bombs wedding reception in iran
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/01/775507/Iran-civilians-killed-wedding-