The Venezuelan Feedstock Paradox: How Gulf Coast Refineries Weaponized Heavy Crude Amid a Middle Eastern Crisis
WASHINGTON / HOUSTON — In the high-stakes theater of global energy geopolitics, few ironies match the reality currently gripping the United States Gulf Coast. While Washington politicians tout sweeping diplomatic triumphs and multi-billion-dollar resource acquisitions in South America to soothe anxious voters at the gas pump, the nation’s complex refinery network is engaged in a…
