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catsudon

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14. it's not that simple

Reply to wiggs (Reply #7)

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 03:29 AM

Yesterday

certain type of oil needs to be refined differently

we do produce more oil than people realized. but we can't process them all, so we do sell our sweet crude oil.

and we buy heavy oil from other countries to mix with our sweet crude to produce better gasoline.

i guess that's why now india is going to invest in texas to build a refinery to trade for access to Venezuela oil

ah i've been watching too much asian news channel at midnight.

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