Here is the UNREDACTED article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/08/21/international1707EDT6668.DTL
That's quite different from the snippet that was posted and some of the hysterics posted by others.
The complete article doesn't add much. At least the scion dumped on the Venezuelan scepter of ominous portent - quite ominous. Oil is going to be around 50 bucks or more a barrel for a very long time. Maybe that will thin out those horrid SUV's on the roads. There is a silver lining in that.