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Trump’s Venezuela Oil Deal: Neighbors up north gets Shafted While Texas Strikes Black Gold , Just Like the Beverly Hillbillies.

Watching the segment about Trump’s Venezuela oil deal delivering a major blow to Canada instantly brought to mind the classic Beverly Hillbillies theme, where a poor mountaineer named Jed suddenly strikes it rich when "up through the ground came a bubblin crude". Just as Jed’s discovery of "black gold, Texas tea" transformed his family’s fortunes overnight and sent them packing to Beverly Hills, the oil of heavy Venezuelan crude into Texas refineries is set to supercharge American energy jobs and independence while leaving Canada’s oil industry on the sidelines.

In both stories, a sudden flood of oil rewrites the economic map, only this time it’s Texas celebrating the bubblin crude gold while its northern neighbor takes the hit.

CANADA TAKES A HIT: Trump’s Venezuela oil deal delivers MAJOR BLOW

The story is based on a Foxnews report

Edited September 1Sep 1 by riclag