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Multiple news organizations and fact‑checkers dissected President Trump’s Dec. 17, 2025 televised address, focusing on economic and immigration claims; the checks repeatedly found his most specific nu...
Since 2019 the universe of refineries actually taking Venezuelan heavy and extra‑heavy crudes has narrowed and rerouted: U.S. Gulf Coast facilities built or retrofitted for heavy, sour Venezuelan grad...
Venezuelan oil is simultaneously "good" and "problematic": the country sits on some of the world's largest crude reserves, but most of that resource is extra‑heavy, technically demanding to produce an...
Average retail gasoline prices were higher on average during President Biden’s term than during President Trump’s term when measured by annual and multi-year means: Trump-era yearly averages clustered...
Venezuela is widely reported to hold the world’s largest proven oil reserves, with recent tallies clustered around roughly 297–303 billion barrels of "proven" reserves and broader estimates of technic...
One year ago, in December 2024, the U.S. national average for a gallon of regular gasoline hovered right around the $3 mark—AAA reported $3.02–$3.03 in early December and industry summaries show the n...
The data provided shows that U.S. retail gasoline prices have fluctuated substantially over decades, with short-term seasonal swings in 2024–2025 and multi-year peaks in 2008 and 2022; . Differences a...
Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves—about 303 billion barrels—which gives it outsized geopolitical leverage within OPEC even though production has been sharply reduced to under 1 m...
U.S. operable refinery distillation capacity hovered around 18.4 million barrels per calendar day (b/cd) at the start of 2024–2025, essentially flat year‑over‑year, though EIA projects capacity to fal...
In January 2025 the U.S. average retail price for regular motor gasoline was about $3.08 per gallon, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (which reports monthly motor-fuel averages) an...
Coverage in the provided sources does not list a clear, complete roster of New Jersey power plants that closed in calendar year 2024; reporting and datasets instead emphasize closures earlier (notably...
No provided source contains a contemporaneous, line‑item "asset inventory" that explicitly marks delayed coker or hydrocracker units as delayed; therefore it is not possible from the reporting supplie...
Russia produced roughly 10.5 million barrels per day (b/d) of total liquid fuels in 2024 while its refineries processed about 5.4 million b/d of crude oil that year, which implies that roughly 51% of ...
Venezuelan heavy crude is so viscous and acidic that it must be thinned with lighter hydrocarbons called diluents (naphtha, condensate, light oil) before it can be pumped, blended for export, or proce...
Venezuela’s reported proven oil reserves surged from roughly 80 billion barrels in the mid‑2000s to about 300–303 billion barrels by 2014 and have stayed at roughly that level through at least 2024 in...
Energy prices moved sharply at moments between 2021 and 2025 and contributed to headline CPI volatility, but multiple analysts and datasets indicate they were not the sole or primary driver of the 202...
The best-supported figure for the U.S. average retail price of gasoline in 2017 is approximately , based on monthly-average data and EIA reporting. Sources provided show minor variations around that m...
California routinely imports roughly a quarter to a third of the electricity that serves the state each year, which translates to on the order of 70–90 million megawatthours (MWh) annually depending o...
Venezuela’s oil endowment is dominated by heavy and extra‑heavy (sour) grades concentrated in the Orinoco Belt — the bulk of its roughly 298–303 billion barrels of proven reserves are heavy/sour rathe...
The core claim — that Illinois’ clean-energy laws “promised savings but have tripled electricity costs since 2019” — is not supported by the reporting provided: multiple sources document substantial i...