Energy Department, having delivered 65 billion barrels and record prices at the pump, announces it is going global

…(cont) Now the deliverable. Majority control of 65 billion barrels, 35 percent of the stake held by the Pentagon, nine months after the military removed Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores from Caracas. Flores, Venezuela's former first lady, asked on September 11 to be released from a Brooklyn jail over a heart condition, which is a humanitarian file and not an energy file, and I would appreciate it if you kept those on separate pages. The barrels are secured. The barrels are ours. The barrels have not —

Sorry. The barrels have not turned up in the price of a gallon. Timing. Infrastructure. Downstream. I said "yet," and if I didn't, hear it.

Because over Labor Day the American driver paid a record $4.15, and more than six months after the war with Iran began — the war whose opening closed the Strait of Hormuz and spiked energy prices worldwide — the president spent a Wednesday post weighing whether to rename that strait after himself, hotter, he wrote, than ever before. That is morale. Morale is an input.

So the department broadens. Nuclear buildout at home, oil fields abroad, and the secretary holding court in Caracas while diesel climbs toward a record — toward the record, at the record, I am not going to litigate the preposition with you when the number is already —

Did I say that? That doesn't sound like me. What I said is the position is strong. Positions take time to monetize. Ask again in a quarter.