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Venezuela offers fuel, food to hurricane-hit US
Yahoo News | 8/30/05

Posted on 08/30/2005 1:39:55 PM PDT by Victor

CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered to send food and fuel to the United States after the powerful Hurricane Katrina pummeled the US south, ravaging US crude production.

The leftist leader, a frequent critic of the United States and a target himself of US disapproval, said Venezuela could send aid workers with drinking water, food and fuel to US communities hit by the hurricane.

"We place at the disposition of the people of the United States in the event of shortages -- we have drinking water, food, we can provide fuel," Chavez told reporters.

Chavez said fuel could be sent to the United States via a Citgo refinery that has not been affected by the hurricane. Citgo is owned by Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

In the Gulf of Mexico, which accounts for a quarter of total US oil output, 92 percent of crude and 83 percent of natural gas production were shut down due to Hurricane Katrina, which slammed Louisiana and Mississippi, according to US government data.

Venezuela is the fourth-largest provider of oil to the United States, supplying some 1.5 million barrels a day.

Last week, Chavez offered discount gasoline to poor Americans suffering from high oil prices and on Sunday offered free eye surgery for Americans without access to health care.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: hugochavez; hurricanekatrina; venezuela
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To: bert
He is doing precisely the right thing. We should accept his aid and all other his example generates and humbly say thanks

This week he called on the President of the United States to extradite Pat Robertson to Venezuela for punishment. I don't think we should be dealing Chavez at all. If it were up to me, we wouldn't use his oil either.

41 posted on 08/30/2005 2:20:12 PM PDT by msnimje
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To: Victor

Maybe Pat Robertson will be the laison for this noble effort from Fidel's good friend.


42 posted on 08/30/2005 2:20:28 PM PDT by Brofholdonow
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To: BenLurkin
Talk is cheap.

Maybe he will come through, maybe he won't; if he does we will appreciate it. What I want to know is where are the rest of our alleged friends? Where is the UN organized rescue effort? It loks like our global "partners" just don't give a damn.
43 posted on 08/30/2005 2:21:32 PM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: Victor
Guess we know who our real friends are.

Not a word from the UK or Australia.

44 posted on 08/30/2005 2:24:40 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: Iscool
"C'mon Chauvez, I'll take your gas"

We already received his gas the moment he opened his mouth.
45 posted on 08/30/2005 2:27:47 PM PDT by wmileo
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To: Victor

Yeah right! Wake me when the 1st Tamker rolls in!


46 posted on 08/30/2005 2:29:14 PM PDT by funkywbr
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To: Iscool
They already jacked the gas price to 3.00 a gallon...

Who is "they?"

47 posted on 08/30/2005 2:30:13 PM PDT by Cobra64
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To: Victor

Isn't Citgo owned by these folks?


48 posted on 08/30/2005 2:30:26 PM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: Shqipo
Bingo! He wants that bullseye off of him.

Exactly, but it is to our advantage in the long term, because we will get the aid he is offering. Also, it will take the heat off of him from us, but the iranian mullahs are going to be angry with him for doing this, thus defusing the creation of a possible oil axis.

49 posted on 08/30/2005 2:32:43 PM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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To: wmileo

Trickly lil' SOB, ain't he. In all honesty, if it is a real strings-free offer, it would put President Bush in a hard spot to turn it down. We still have no idea how bad it will get before NO is completely underwater. My worst-case scenario - they'll never get the water back out of it....


50 posted on 08/30/2005 2:33:30 PM PDT by Amalie (FREEDOM had NEVER been another word for nothing left to lose...)
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To: azhenfud
...but where is the UN or our close "friends and allies" in this mess.

And where is that pukeface that called our entire nation "CHEAP" as we were almost singlehandedly feeding every tsunami victim we or anyone else could find!

51 posted on 08/30/2005 2:33:38 PM PDT by JoeSixPack1
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To: splint
When we NEED your OIL, we will TAKE IT! Amazing how these freaks think they have the power to bargain.

What flavor of KOOL-Aid are you drinking?

52 posted on 08/30/2005 2:34:19 PM PDT by Cobra64
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To: msnimje
This week he called on the President of the United States to extradite Pat Robertson to Venezuela for punishment. I don't think we should be dealing Chavez at all. If it were up to me, we wouldn't use his oil either.

When people are watching everything they own get ripped away, when they are devastated, without food or shelter, and devoid of hope, it is no time to assert prideful, political spite. Accepting aid in time of need from one that you would under normal conditions consider an adversary is not weakness, any more than offering it when the conditions are reversed is a sign of superiority.

Sometimes even those you hate help their fellow man in times of disaster.

53 posted on 08/30/2005 2:37:27 PM PDT by Antonello
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To: Victor

I'll believe it when I see it but really, I don't remember anyone else making an offer like this after a disaster like this. God can reach the hardest hearts. Remember Nebbachadnezzer.


54 posted on 08/30/2005 2:55:07 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Antonello
This may turn out to be a worse disaster than the tsunami. Expect to see the movie stars etc start donating big time. I hope so anyway.
55 posted on 08/30/2005 3:16:59 PM PDT by Shannon
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To: Shannon

Expect to see NO ONE from Hollywood donate. Oh, there MIGHT be a fundraiser but youre dreamin if you think they'll donate.


56 posted on 08/30/2005 3:48:19 PM PDT by splint (...another proud member of the sand to glass club!)
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To: msnimje

Thjat was then, this is now.

Chavez is a problem but accepting his gesture of aid is an excellant step in the right direction. The proper exercise of power involves adroit dealing with ones opponents. We have vast two way trade and there are more people interested in maintaining the trade than opposing it.


57 posted on 08/30/2005 4:13:58 PM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . The wild winds of fortune will carry us onward)
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To: Iscool
They already jacked the gas price to 3.00 a gallon...

Except it to go up another $1.00 to $1.50 by the end of the week if not sooner.

58 posted on 08/30/2005 4:15:59 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Cindy Sheehan, Pat Buchanan, John Conyers, and David Duke Are Just Different Sides of the Same Coin.)
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To: COEXERJ145
Except=Expect.
59 posted on 08/30/2005 4:17:48 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Cindy Sheehan, Pat Buchanan, John Conyers, and David Duke Are Just Different Sides of the Same Coin.)
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To: azhenfud
Might be, but where is the UN or our close "friends and allies" in this mess.

Well, I finally found something that shows the UN has at least heard of Hurricane Katrina. Too bad the extent of the 'aid' they are offering amounts to basically telling us we should have been better prepared. But the good news is this disaster will 'provide an opportune moment for the media to pass the message that it is important for all to be prepared in the future.'

Thank God for the UN. Everything is all better now. /sarcasm

60 posted on 08/30/2005 4:34:36 PM PDT by Antonello
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