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Venezuela Oil Production Capacity 1ac The plan: The United States federal government should increase investment in Venezuelan oil production and refinery capacity. Contention 1 – Advantages Advantage 1 –Oil production US imposed sanctions on PdVSA, limiting the company’s relationship with the US and US companies Sullivan, Specialist in LatinAmericanAffairs 2013Mark P. “Venezuela:IssuesforCongress” CRS Report January10, /sgp/crs/row/R40938.pdf accessed tm 7/2In May2011, the United Statesimposed sanctions onVenezuela’sstateoil company, Petróleosde VenezuelaS.A.(PdVSA), pursuanttothe ComprehensiveIran Sanctions,Accountability, and DisinvestmentAct of2010(P.L. 111-195) becausethecompanyprovided $50 million worth of reformate, anadditive usedin gasoline,to Iran betweenDecember 2010and March2011. Specifically, the State Department imposedthree sanctions on PdVSAto prohibit itfrom competingfor U.S. government procurement contracts, securingfinancingfromthe Export- Import Bank, and obtainingU.S. exportlicenses.The sanctionsspecificallyexclude PdVSA subsidiaries(Citgo) and donot prohibit theexportofoil tothe UnitedStates.168At the same time, Venezuela oil production decreasing now- laundry list of reasons Krauss 13 (Clifford Krauss, he is a correspondent for the New York Times, national business correspondent based in Houston, covering energy, used to cover the State Department, Congress and the New York City police department before serving as Buenos Aires bureau chief and Tornot bureau chief, has worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and was the Edward R. Murrow fellow at the council on Foreign relations, “Dwindling Production Has Led to Lesser Role for Venezuela as Major Oil Power”, New York Times, 3/8/2013, /2013/03/09/world/americas/venezuelas-role-as-oil-power-diminished.html, GU)In a fundamental geopolitical turn, Venezuela now relies far more on the United States than the United States relies on Venezuela.? Venezuela depends on the United