• driving_crooner
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    1 year ago

    An argentinean friend of mine, was complaining about the lack of gas oil in gas stations on Argentina and said “we’re literally Venezuela!!” and I was like my dude, if Venezuela have problems, lack of gas oil is not one of them, you cannot use Venezuela as an example for everything you don’t like.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Entirely possible since it’s the oil cartels that tend to maintain a monopoly on the means of production for petroleum products.

        Also fun fact Alaska is similar to Venezuela in the fact that we rely on our oil reserves to the point our economy crashes when oil prices crash, and we have to ship our oil out to get it refined.