why not airlift food to venezuela.....?...... ( Archived) (49)

Can't be long before Bolton, Pompeous, Penny and Abrams persuade Trump to deliver 'aid' attached to 'humanitarian bombs for peace'

Oh I think American companies need the low grad oil

VENEZUELA SANCTIONS LEAVE OIL MARKET SHORT OF HEAVY CRUDE

Venezuela was once a major oil exporter to the United States, but shipments have fallen from 1.4 million bpd in 1998 to around 500,000 bpd in 2018 ("Petroleum supply monthly," EIA, Jan 2019).
The sudden embargo on Venezuela's exports has therefore sent refiners in the United States and elsewhere scrambling to find alternative supplies compatible with their equipment.

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VENEZUELA SANCTIONS LEAVE OIL MARKET SHORT OF HEAVY CRUDE

Venezuela was once a major oil exporter to the United States, but shipments have fallen from 1.4 million bpd in 1998 to around 500,000 bpd in 2018 ("Petroleum supply monthly," EIA, Jan 2019).
The sudden embargo on Venezuela's exports has therefore sent refiners in the United States and elsewhere scrambling to find alternative supplies compatible with their equipment.

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Canadian growth shoring up massive U.S. heavy oil market: IHS Markit

U.S. imports of Canadian heavy crudes will approach 2.8 million bbls/d in 2018 — more than double what they were in 2012 — and could exceed 3 million bbls/d in 2020, the report said.

However, IHS Markit said consolidation in the oilsands industry and lagging infrastructure is expected to slow growth in the coming years and may be a source of uncertainty for U.S. heavy oil demand in the longer term.

Slightly inaccurate: the US has flown in food to (West) Berlin while the city was blocked by former East-Germany.

While all eyes are focused on the highways to Colombia being blocked because of humanitarian aid at the opposite side, it's far easier to ship in any quantity of food just bribing a few officials (if necessary). These people have families at the brink of starvation too.

It needs a capitalist generation to climb up to the higher branches and pluck the fruit and do something wildly radical like grow another tree(diversify the economy).

After that will come a less capitalist generation of never had it so good, a generation of low-hanging fruit. Capitalism lets the low-hanging fruit go to waste which is why the economic problems of the 1930s were(eventually)dealt with by the left, you had goods rotting on the shelf. Are the goods rotting on the shelf or are they not there? This is the question that counts.

had nothing to do with low or high fruit rather greed was the main cause

Nine thousand banks failed during the months following the stock market crash of 1929.

Four major causes of the Great Depression were the stock market crash in 1929, bank failures, over-production and drought.

Capitalism always ends up crashing, its the very reason Velezuelan's and other members of the One Belt Road don't want to exchange US Dollars anymore, particularly they don't want control by the lying thieving American government.
America is imploding, now they got people with automatic weapons guarding school kids, black and white people always been divided in the USA, in Vietnam the yanks were shooting blacks when the busing riots broke out in America, they were shooting there own troops, MP's were baiting blacks in the bars in Saigon then arresting them, blacks had there own bars and whites their own bars.
US$23 trillion lot of debit, Obama printed US$2 trillion and paid off some of the Chinese debit they owed, USA bailed out EU twice already and EU bailed USA out the once.
The amount of gold held, and nuclear bombs be the fruits of tomorrows

"Is this true or not... we have to guess"

It certainly is encouraging, at least in Caracas. What about the rest of Venezuela? And if the prices are so high, how are the perishables kept in stock? Assuming the video is actually from Caracas and recent, I would recommend buying lots of Venezuelan coffee -- Cafe Madrid and a couple other brands. It's go-o-o-od!