Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Greenland, Panama…it’s all interconnected and it all points to China.

As U.S. energy ramps up, and China is deprived of subsidized oil, subsidized shipping channels, freedom of navigation through sovereign waters and allies that can cause the U.S.… https://t.co/K5cmCg8xcj

— 🐺 (@LeighWolf) February 28, 2026

Spot on

What's China doing besides funding protests to continue to trick the poor helpless radical lefties?

concordtom said:

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China is rapidly replacing its vehicle fleet with EVs, its demand for oil is already peaking.

It's the economies of India, S Korea, japan and W Europe that are vulnerable to oil supply shocks in the medium term.

Notice Spain in that solar power graph, it is the only W European country that isn't deindustrializing, setting itself to become a future auto production hub in the EU while Germany sputters.

US shale oil production is set to start declining next decade, at which point Canada would pick up the slack, if we're nice to them.

HawaiiBear33 said:

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Spot on.

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This is bogus information.
This thread should be deleted.

The U.S. does NOT PRODUCE more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Not even close.

Russia: 9.3 mbpd

Saudi Arabia: 10.1 mbpd

United States: 13.6 mbpd

Do the Math.

And yet China is still expanding its refineries, even with EV growth

13.6 < 19.4

You're welcome.

BearlySane88 said:

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I'm assuming this includes our new found friend's supply in Venezuela but I'm not sure

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Wrong.
Venezuela only produces 800,000 - 900,000 bpd.

Has nothing to do with supply.
The topic is oil PRODUCTION.

Peak production in the 1990's was 3.0 mbpd for Venezuela

Appreciate the info

From my quick research, it looks like the original graph is talking about total liquids production (including petroleum) and not just crude oil. Misleading for sure

BearlySane88 said:

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Appreciate the info

From my quick research, it looks like the original graph is talking about total liquids production (including petroleum) and not just crude oil. Misleading for sure

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No problem, your post above about oil production was 100% ignorance and 0% bad faith.

My response wasn't to you and I classified it by saying I'm not sure.

100% troll job.

BearlySane88 said:

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My response wasn't to you and I classified it by saying I'm not sure.

100% troll job.

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For once that your bad faith score was 0%, you should have just taken the W.

You got called out for being wrong. It's okay, take your L and grow up

BearlySane88 said:

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You got called out for being wrong. It's okay, take your L and grow up

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100% bad faith
0% ignorance

Move on bro.

How is a global conflict with a rising power with nukes good for us?

China is a rival but it also is a rival whose political survival (the CCP) depends directly on global trade and frankly a stable world order. This relationships has always felt like one to manage rather than come into direct conflict (see british policy toward the United states during the second half of the 19th century).

Or put another way - please spin out a scenario in which a country with a huge balance of trade surplus (and a huge amount of US debt) and who holds onto power through elite cooption (all those Chines Bougiees buying Gucchi in Hong Kong) benefit if trade tanks and global markets get shut off. And if you believe that they will peacefully and without crisis go willingingly into that good night you have misread 500 years of chinese history of internal revolts.

BearlySane88 said:

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Move on bro.

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If I were you and was prone to the same type of compulsions, I would have tattooed that sentence above backwards on my forehead.

Move on bro.

It is not good for us or anyone

orb no evoM

Guys, give it a rest. No more personal attacks. No more back and forth bickering. No more trolling. Stay on topic and / or use the Ignore feature.

tequila4kapp said:

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Guys, give it a rest. No more personal attacks. No more back and forth bickering. No more trolling. Stay on topic and / or use the Ignore feature.

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good luck with that, seriously. default condition of the internet/board is out of control, always pushing whatever limits exist. not management's fault imo, just the nature of anon bbs "culture"
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