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Chavez makes US oil export threat
BBC ^

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hugochavez; oil; venezuela
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To: Red Boots

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.


41 posted on 08/15/2005 3:50:12 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: traumer

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!


42 posted on 08/15/2005 4:33:11 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the"and Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: A CA Guy

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.


43 posted on 08/15/2005 4:37:32 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open the Land Office)
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To: rovenstinez
"And if a Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is elected and he joins the club... and decides no longer to send black sweet low sulfur crude to the USA...then what?"

Then instead of sealing our southern border with Mexico, we extend it a few hundred miles south and then seal it.

44 posted on 08/15/2005 6:44:27 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" -Pope Urban II, 1097AD)
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To: TheCrusader

that indeed would be agression, imperialistic.


45 posted on 08/16/2005 10:04:21 AM PDT by rovenstinez (..)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Ping!


46 posted on 08/16/2005 10:06:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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To: Cincinatus

Thanks sweetie.

Chavez is doing his Castro impression.


47 posted on 08/16/2005 10:12:31 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

48 posted on 08/16/2005 10:28:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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To: Cincinatus

That's the clown!


49 posted on 08/16/2005 11:15:36 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

That perch that he's sitting on is pretty dog-gone ugly too!


50 posted on 08/16/2005 11:17:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
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To: diverteach
The threat of a Hurricane Irene to hit the offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico caused another spike. Why?

Yea, but look what Dennis did to Thunder Horse.


51 posted on 08/16/2005 11:25:11 AM PDT by houeto
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To: rovenstinez
I'm no economist but gee....isn't oil a MARKETABLE commodity, emphasize on "market"......

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.

52 posted on 08/16/2005 11:28:19 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Cincinatus

LOL!!


53 posted on 08/16/2005 12:57:16 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: traumer
I remembered when this jack-@$$ took over Venezuela, our gas prices took off. Back in 1998/1999, I remembered paying $0.98 per gallon for gas and now it is $2.45. That is ridiculous ! I drove my Jeep from Colorado to Indiana more than a week ago, I spent about ~$170 for gas.

This @$$hole needs to be removed from office especially since he was fraudulently elected.
54 posted on 08/16/2005 1:20:47 PM PDT by CORedneck
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To: houeto

"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.


55 posted on 08/16/2005 2:15:40 PM PDT by diverteach
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