Venezuela 'could stop oil deliveries to US': Chavez

Deutsche Presse-Agentur ^ | 2/5/2006 | staff

[wjersey]

Another Castro, but he has some cards to play with.

[freeangel]

BOYCOTT CITGO now!

[cripplecreek]

To the people who accepted the Chavez fuel oil bribe, That's what we call "The other shoe".

[Erik Latranyi]

I warned of this possibility over a year ago.

This is a very serious threat to our nation and one of the primary reasons why President Bush emphasized oil independence in his State of the Union speech last week.

[Cicero]

Like most Communists, he is an economic idiot. If he sells oil to other countries, he will simply free up that much oil from elsewhere for us. He will lose income from Venezuela if he does not sell efficiently, but he won't hurt the U.S. one bit.

It's like the misplaced anger of Americans when we were selling most of our North Slope oil to Japan. Japan simply happened to be an efficient customer to ship to from Alaska. What we sold them freed oil up from other sources that the Japanese had previously been buying, which was handier to our ports.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Thank you obstructionist and do nothing politicians and unrealistic environuts you helping place this tin pot dictators' hands around our neck.

[Dog Gone]

Just words. Oil is fungible. If he sells it into the world market, it hardly matters what its destination is.

[GladesGuru]

Bombs, neutron bombs.

All your oil fields are belong to us.

Remember what happened to Carthage when it tried to raise the price of grain sold to Rome?

;-)

[Dog Gone]

Your point is correct even though your facts aren't. We never sold more than 6% of the daily north slope oil production to Asia.

[Rastus]

Yep. And if worse came to worst, we would just buy the same oil from whoever Venezuela sells it to instead of direct.

[garyhope]

As they say in Texas: "This guy needs killing"!

[Berlin_Freeper]

Didn't he hear we are ADDICTED TO OIL!

That means we get to blow his brains out and then seek treatment, write a children's book, poetry, be on Oprah, do the lecture tour in Europe and Japan, bad mouth our parents and blame society.

[Mike Darancette]

Chavez is a joke.

[mware]

Add this to the mix. A tread from yesterday.

look at how the 35-nation board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency voted on the resolution to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program, which was approved on a 27-3 vote with five abstentions:

YES: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Yemen

NO: Cuba, Syria, Venezuela

ABSTAINED: Algeria, Belarus, Indonesia, Libya, South Africa

[Txsleuth]

I have been boycotting Citgo for a LONG time...since Chavez started really showing his hand as a tyrant.

And, even though I know that drilling in ANWR or off shore would be a LONG time in actually supplying us with oil...this just illustrates how the dems can affect our foreign policy...and our national security in almost every way.

[Mike Darancette]

\'It would be easy for us to shut all our refineries in the USA,\'

It would be easy for us to seize all your refineries in the USA.

[bordergal]

The timing is interesting.
(1) Chavez and Iran get "buddy buddy".
(2) Iran referred to UN Security Council, fears imminent attack from Israel/US/Allies.
(3) Chavez threatens the US oil supply.

Hmmmmm.

[janetjanet998]

i could him doing this when the Iran thing heats up...price of oil would go over 100/br

[xcamel]

[monkeywrench]

"Another Castro, but he has some cards to play with."

Still not a full deck.