Posted on 03/05/2005 6:48:18 PM PST by Kitten Festival
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose country is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, said that the world should get used to high oil prices. "The world should forget about cheap oil ... it won't happen," Chavez told a news conference in the Indian capital on Saturday, saying that the new price range for oil would remain between 40 dollars and 50 dollars.
"That is the new band for oil," said Chavez, whose country is the only South American member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Chavez, on the second day of a visit to India where he signed a slew of energy and other agreements, said the "world needs a fair price for oil."
"We are evaluating how we can stabilise the price of oil (within the 40 dollar to 50 dollar band)," he said.
He added later, however, he was certain the prices "will go up even further" than the 40 dollar to 50 dollar range, given rising prices of other goods.
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Not me. It'll give us an excuse to invade and maybe finally we can keep some oil for ourselves since Venezuelans (spelling?) don't blow themselves up and set fire to oil wells.
so the price is where they want it, the oil barons are billinaires and here we sit, pawns of their greed.....
if only we had a sensible energy policy....
I would go for increasing the mpg's on all vehicles along with finally figuring out how solar energy could serve us, and of course, opening up the Alaskan oil fields.....
Alaska is dripping with oil and methane mostly on federal lands.. Most of Alaska is federal land.. ANWR is the tip of the oil barrel.. This federal land thing spits in the eyes of all state residents, in any state.. The ONLY federal land should Washington D.C... else we are not a republic but a mere democracy..
Time to say the oil man's prayer.
Oh God, I promise not to piss off this boom!
Why? It's their oil not ours. They can sell it at any price they want.
Those who refuse to allow us to develop domestic production and make us dependent on these creeps are the ones we have to blame.
Whoa - couldn't have said it any better!
As a Freeper said some time ago: "We need to drill ANWR like a $10 hooker!"
ANWR briefing by Gale Norton-DOI
http://www.doi.gov/news/anwr/ANWRtestimony.htm
ANWR
http://www.anwr.org/index.php
We have been hearing that from our liberals for a long time in America. Now we hear the same words from a communist.
You are correct
i meant by his OWN people... NOT by us. stuff happens
Actually, I was alluded to Frist when I mentioned "Well, it's politics" comment.
President Bush is the leader, not Frist. President Bush should use Chavez's comments as a springboard. He needs to come out and say something like:
"My fellow Americans, we don't need to rely on others, and we certainly don't need to rely on others who want to keep oil prices high.And, I agree that Bush and Cheney can't do it alone. We need to have an effect on Congress. We need to reject the leftist propaganda in every open forum that we can find.Do you want to keep paying more at the pump?
If the answer is no, then we need to stop relying on other countries for our oil. In the meatime, we are leading the way with new fuels.
The United States of America was built on the idea of self-reliance.
It's time we start getting back to that."
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