Windfall

For those campers licking their chops over the promise, implicit though it may be, that snagging all that Venezuelan oil for our own selves will appear as much lower prices at your local gas pump? Guess again.

There is a precedent in natural gas. The fossil fuel industry just ships it overseas for yet more moolah.

The new administration's plans to unleash American gas without restrictions would significantly hurt the economy here at home and expose U.S. residents to the volatility of the global gas market, the study shows. Natural gas prices could skyrocket by more than 30%. The average American household could see its energy bill rise by over $100 by 2050.

Of course, that study was done and released under Sleepy Joe (who hates the fossil fuel cabal, of course). Did they get the facts wrong? I doubt it. But Führer Trump will find some mindless RFK-nicks to claim that both LNG export and trans-shipping Venezuelan crude elsewhere (Russia? China?) Makes America Great Again. And the shitkickers who are his base will eat it up.