Whilst coming back home, I noticed that gas had rocketed up to 91 cents. Such an insane number automatically made me think that something of importance must have happend in the U.S./Venezuela ring, and according to a quick news.goole search it appears that something sure did happen:

Petroleos de Venezuela SA, South America's No. 1 oil company, agreed to sell fuel oil for a year to China's largest oil company PetroChina Oil to help meet surging energy demand.

...Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, has repeatedly said it wants to diversify its customer base. The South American country currently sends about 1.5 million barrels of oil a day, or about two-thirds of its oil exports, to the U.S.