President reportedly hopes falling price will cut domestic consumer energy bills Business live – latest updates Donald Trump plans to use Venezuela’s vast crude reserves to establish control of most of the western hemisphere’s oil in an attempt to drive the market price down to about $50 a barrel, according to reports. The US president has repeatedly raised the prospect of producing enough crude from Venezuela’s oilfields to drive down the US oil price from more than $56 a barrel today to about $50 to cut energy costs for consumers, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited senior Trump administration officials. Continue reading...