Venezuela's plunging output comes amid strong demand as well as concerns that supplies from the Middle East, by far the world's
biggest oil producing region, could also be disrupted, especially should the United States in May re-impose sanctions against OPEC - member Iran.
I travel from the legendary artist town of Marfa in the southwest to Houston in the third
biggest oil -
producing region in the world, and from there to Austin, Boomtown of the USA.