Posted on 08/15/2005 2:57:08 PM PDT by traumer
Oil exports to the US could stop amid growing tensions between the two countries, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said.
He described recent US government actions as "aggressive" in a speech at a youth festival in Caracas. As a result, Venezuelan oil "instead of going to the United States, could go elsewhere," he said.
Venezuela exports about 1.3 million barrels a day to the US and is the world's fifth largest oil producer.
Tensions between the two countries have escalated since President Chavez accused the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of spying on his government.
Washington denies the charge and has accused Caracas of failing to co-operate in the fight against drug-trafficking.
On Friday the Venezuelan government withdrew diplomatic immunity from DEA agents working in the country in response to a US decision to revoke the visas of six Venezuelan officials based in Washington.
Venezuela is an important transport route for cocaine from neighbouring Colombia, which produces 80% of the world's supply.
I don't think there are mass devices being withheld by companies in some warehouse in some third world hell hole.
I think the human mind is brilliant and I can't believe we can put people on the moon decades ago and probes on Mars, but can't get the answer to cheap clean enegy. Makes no sense to me and I think there has been a lot of pressure against such results by those that benefit now from things being the way they are.
I'd say it's time for return of the Monroe Doctrine. Chavez has been doing the bidding of some anti Western nations and terror orgs. That qualifies. While we're at it, Cuba is way overdue as well. Enough of this tolerance of messes in our own backyard! Grenada was only a taste of what is possible!
You may be referring to the moneyed interests. They didn't want the New World populated in the beginning and have resisted the Western movement ever since.
Then instead of sealing our southern border with Mexico, we extend it a few hundred miles south and then seal it.
that indeed would be agression, imperialistic.
Ping!
Thanks sweetie.
Chavez is doing his Castro impression.
That's the clown!
That perch that he's sitting on is pretty dog-gone ugly too!
Yea, but look what Dennis did to Thunder Horse.
we are a rich nation that can buy at will.....
would any country really want to close that door?.......don't think so....
besides......I am ready for an oil shortage, and maybe if it happened, the whole country would quickly get ready too......we are very, very wasteful....
I'm going downstairs now to check on what's left of my Millenium supplies.....lol.
LOL!!
"Yea, but look what Dennis did to Thunder Horse."
I know what Dennis did, my point was that they used as an excuse for a spike in prices, a storm that never even threatened the east coast, much less digress, cross Florida into the Gulf and threaten the oil rigs. Now, had Irene been, or threatened in any way to go into the Gulf, that I would completely understand.
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