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Dec 18, 2025
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What specific claims from Trump’s Dec. 17, 2025 address were fact-checked and what were the findings?

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...

Dec 21, 2025
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Which global refineries are configured to process Venezuelan heavy and extra‑heavy crudes, and how has that changed since 2019?

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...

Dec 20, 2025
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Is Venezuelan oil good oil?

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...

Nov 13, 2025

How do gas prices under Biden compare to Trump administration?

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...

Dec 4, 2025

How accurate are estimates of Venezuela's proven oil reserves today?

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...

Dec 8, 2025

Gas prices 1 year ago

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...

Dec 5, 2025

What impact do Venezuela's oil reserves have on OPEC and global oil markets?

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...

Nov 6, 2025

Average price of gas over the years

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...

Dec 13, 2025

what was the average us retail gasoline price in january 2025 when biden left office

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...

Nov 25, 2025

How did U.S. refinery capacity and outages between 2021–2025 affect retail gasoline prices?

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...

Nov 26, 2025

Which New Jersey power plants have closed in 2024?

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...

Jan 10, 2026

Which U.S. Gulf Coast refineries currently list delayed coker and hydrocracker units on their most recent asset inventories?

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...

Jan 11, 2026

What percentage of Russia's crude oil is refined domestically in 2024?

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 ...

Jan 5, 2026

How have Venezuela's proven oil reserve figures changed since 2014 and why?

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...

Nov 16, 2025

Influence of energy prices on US inflation trends 2021-2025

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...

Jan 4, 2026

What portion of Venezuela's reserves are heavy/sour crude and how does that affect producibility?

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...

Dec 17, 2025

“Illinois clean energy bills promise savings but have tripled electricity costs since 2019; new bill will add $8B in rate hikes”

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...

Dec 8, 2025

How did average US gasoline prices change month-by-month during the Biden presidency compared to the Trump presidency?

Average U.S. gasoline prices were materially lower across Donald Trump’s 2017–2020 term (term average about $2.46/gal) than across Joe Biden’s time in office through the sources’ coverage (Biden-era a...

Nov 12, 2025

What factors affected gas prices in early 2021 under Biden?

Multiple analyses identify a mix of global market forces and U.S. policy actions as drivers of gasoline prices in early 2021. The available briefings disagree on weight and causation: some emphasize ,...

Nov 6, 2025

Average price of gas in 2017

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...