Xiao Feng looked at Bella's posture, how could he not understand what she meant, but it was not convenient to express his position here.

After chatting with Bella and Daliang about some ideas about the construction of Ithaca City, Xiao Feng went back to the villa.

His villa was left by the Li family, and after the Li family's power was cleared from Ithaca, their family's property was confiscated and shared.

Many of these high-quality properties ended up in Xiao Feng's hands, and this villa is where he and Jesse are now living in the Ithaca area.

After resting in the villa for one night, Bella called early the next morning and said that two oil tankers had come from the dock and asked him to come and have a look.

Xiao Feng drove to the wharf, and when he arrived at the wharf, he found that there were two 10,000-ton oil tankers, and the captain was a hairy bear, named Andre.

Seeing Xiao Feng, he was also very polite, and took out his satellite phone to call Liukin.

Liukin explained to Xiao Feng on the phone that these two ships were the oil he got from Venezuela, and they were already of relatively good quality.

Xiao Feng didn't understand it very well, so he asked Bella to find someone to take a look on the ship, it was still heavy oil from Venezuela, but the quality was relatively good.

But now he doesn't have a stocked warehouse on the dock, and there is nowhere to put the oil when it is unloaded.

Bella immediately took out the phone and got in touch with the people of the Copper Country Oil Company, and as soon as the situation was communicated, the Copper Country Oil side immediately promised to take over this batch of heavy oil.

And let them send the oil to the refinery in Aconcagua, and at the same time promise that they will be provided with affordable diesel according to the production of oil.

However, the other party will send someone to test the quality of the oil today, and then finalize the contract.

Xiao Feng communicated with Captain Andre, who was leading the team on Mao Xiong's side, and asked them if they could send the oil to the refinery in Aconcagua, but the other party didn't care where the oil was sent, anyway, as long as Xiao Feng gave money.

According to the price of a barrel of twenty dollars that was negotiated before, Xiao Feng had to pay about two million dollars for these two ships.

Two million dollars is not much, the point is that the business is still profitable.

The Aconcagua refinery is part of the Copper State Petroleum and is the closest refinery to the Ithaca region, halfway between Ithaca and Santiago.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the representative of Tongguo Petroleum arrived, a team of more than a dozen people, who came by helicopter.

The reason why they are so active is because they give Bella Chen a face, because they have cooperated with the Chen family before.

Second, it is also because the copper country is too short of oil, even if the copper country oil company is the largest oil company in the copper country, but the majority of the sales in the copper country market is the Chevron of the United States.

Copper oil has always lacked its own raw material supply, some time ago because of the shortage of crude oil imports, they even announced a price increase.

It led to a series of chain reactions, with power plants raising prices, freight companies, and finally subways, which led to the previous big movement.

Later, the government stepped in to put an end to the big movement, but the copper country oil also suffered and had to obediently adjust the oil price back to the previous price.

But in this way, they don't make much money.

So much so that some time ago, they had to sign an agreement with Ecuador to invest $37 million to increase the exploitation of oil fields in Ecuador.

But Ecuador's oil fields can't produce any high-quality crude oil, which is similar to Venezuela's heavy oil.

In the past, they could still import low-cost heavy oil from Venezuela and refine it, but now the problem is that the coup d'état in Venezuela has not succeeded.

As a result, policies were introduced to sanction Venezuela, so that everyone did not dare to import heavy oil from Venezuela, so that the cost of oil in the copper country was high.

Although I heard that Venezuelan Petroleum is now the exclusive agent of ROSNEFT in Mao Xiong Country, because of the fear of the United States, Copper Country Petroleum does not dare to have any contact with ROSNEFT.

This time, when they heard that Bella could get Venezuelan oil, they were very happy.

Anyway, they didn't go to contact the Venezuelan people, and their oil was not bought from ROSNEFT, so even if the rice people wanted to get them, they couldn't do it.

The quality inspectors of Tongguo Petroleum soon boarded the ship to test the oil on the tanker, which was indeed heavy oil from Venezuela.

This kind of inferior oil has not been used less in the copper country before, so they also have very rich refining experience, which is nothing more than heating at high temperatures, and then adding hydrogen to it, and then it becomes a high-quality fuel.

However, the cost will be higher, for example, exhaust gas will be generated during the heating process, and the liquid hydrogen used for hydrogenation is not cheap.

But as long as it is produced in large quantities, the cost can still be lowered.

After the inspection by the quality inspectors of Copper Oil, the person in charge of the negotiation talked to Bella.

Xiao Feng did not show up during this negotiation, but he wanted to see Bella's negotiation ability.

Sure enough, Bella did not disappoint Xiao Feng, and the price of a barrel of heavy oil was raised by her by ten dollars, and finally sold at thirty dollars per barrel.

Xiao Feng was stunned after hearing this, knowing that the price he bought from Liujin for these heavy oils was only twenty dollars a barrel.

And now he made ten dollars per barrel when he changed hands, and he really didn't expect such a consequence.

Xiao Feng was also happy after knowing the final negotiation result, but he could make so much money just by changing hands, if this continues, it won't be long before he can become an oil tycoon!

And after Bella understood the cost of his purchase, she also exclaimed a few times, she didn't expect that Xiao Feng could get such a low price of heavy oil.

After the oil is purified and refined in the processing plant, the cost of each barrel will rise by another ten dollars.

But even so, the cost of a barrel of heavy oil rose to forty dollars, and the copper country oil did not lose money.

Because of the international crude oil price this morning, the New York Stock Exchange is quoting $51 a barrel.

That is to say, the profit per barrel of copper oil is about eleven dollars.

So no matter how you look at it, this is a profitable deal for all three parties!

So who loses money in the end of this business?

"Of course it's the Venezuelan people, but this is also their own fault, there is no life of the people of the United States, but the disease of the people of the United States!"

Bella finally analyzed to Xiao Feng that Xiao Feng didn't know much about the situation on the Venezuelan side, but Bella, as a South American native, couldn't know more about the situation there.

"What do you mean by that?"

As soon as Xiao Feng asked, Bella explained to Xiao Feng.

"When President Cha came to power, in order to gain the support of the people, he promised a lot of benefits to the people. The most important thing is that he greatly improved the welfare of the people, and at that time, the international oil price was high, and at the highest time, he could buy a barrel of oil for 120 US dollars. ”

Xiao Feng experienced that the reason why oil prices were so expensive at that time was entirely because the international economy had just recovered from the subprime mortgage crisis caused by the people of the United States.

In addition, China's economic growth was very strong at that time, which also drove the consumption of all commodities in the world.

At that time, not only the price of oil was expensive, but also iron ore, copper, soybeans, but all commodities that were consumed in large quantities in China were all rising wildly.

And the craziest price increase among them is oil, when the price of a barrel is the highest, it can be 120 or 30 dollars.

The high oil prices also dispelled Xiao Feng's idea of buying a car at that time.

But later, after President Cha's death, because of the breakthrough in shale oil technology, the country suddenly became a rich country from the world's largest crude oil importer, and even exported a large amount of crude oil and natural gas. The international oil price was knocked down at once, and President President Ma, who took over, was numb. In order to maintain his rule, he could not reduce the welfare of the people, so he could only rely on foreign debts to maintain it, but in the end he could not maintain it. You wouldn't have thought that a country that produces gold, non-ferrous metals, and all kinds of mineral resources would live like this......"

Bella was obviously very unimpressed by the mess in Venezuela, and when she introduced it to Xiao Feng, she also explained to Xiao Feng the reason why Venezuela's economy was so bad.

Xiao Feng also understood, it was really like what Bella said, it was completely self-inflicted on the country to make such a fuss, there was no life of the country, but it was sick of the country.

Think of these countries on the South American continent, it seems that they all have such diseases, such as Brazil and Argentina.

In order to come to power, the president has to shout slogans during the election campaign to improve the welfare of the people.

As a result, after coming to power, in order to cash in on welfare, they can only overdraft the country's future, and a few years will be a cycle, and in the end, the country's economy can only collapse if it cannot support it.

The most prominent example of this is Argentina, and I don't know how many times I have gone back and forth.

"Do you know how exaggerated Venezuela's welfare is?"

Bella said, Xiao Feng shook his head.

"In Venezuela, the price of a litre of oil is 0.095 bolívars, and 1 US dollar is about 6.30 bolívars, so let's put it this way, adding 40 litres of petrol to a car costs only as much as buying an egg locally, and even cheaper than a 355ml bottle of mineral water...... Keep in mind that the price of local water is 5 cents a gallon and about 3.79 liters. ”

"What?

Hearing such a frenzied oil price, Xiao Feng finally couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, this oil is too cheap, right?

And then, Bella's words made him even more dumbfounded.

"Yes, you heard it right, what's even more terrible is that such gasoline prices have been maintained for almost 20 years...... Not only does the government not get a penny of profit from gasoline sales, but it also subsidizes nearly $20 billion a year in refining costs. And whoever wants to raise the price of oil, even if it is from the price of one egg to the price of two eggs, then he will step down......"

“......”

Xiao Feng was speechless when he heard it, no wonder Venezuela's economy was so fucked up.

The people of this country have been completely spoiled, and no matter who comes to power, there is no way to save the country, unless all the citizens are cleaned up.