Chavez makes US oil export threat

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[A CA Guy]

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.

[GOP_1900AD]

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!

[RightWhale]

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.

[TheCrusader]

"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.

[rovenstinez]

that indeed would be agression, imperialistic.

[Cincinatus]

Ping!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thanks sweetie.

Chavez is doing his Castro impression.

[Cincinatus]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

That's the clown!

[Cincinatus]

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

[houeto]

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.

[cherry]

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.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LOL!!

[CORedneck]

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.

[diverteach]

"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.