[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.

[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

[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.

[Pharmboy]

Pat Robertson had a point, eh?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

His economy would tank in 30 days.

[RightWhale]

his country could halt all oil deliveries to the United States

If they embargo US shipments, they won't be making shipments anyplace.

[RightWhale]

he has some cards

But no face cards.

[burzum]

Yeah right, Chavez. Do you really think you have supporters because they 'love' you?

Cut off the oil, and he'll be out of office in weeks.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I don't buy CITGO. Chavez can stop deliveries to the US, but others will sell to the US and it will have little or no impact on the oil market. Thanks Jimmy for validating his fraud recall election. Now people in Venezuela who signed the recall petition have lost their jobs and intimidated by Chavez's thugs.

[Just mythoughts]

Putin is the real oil and gas cartel to watch, his "energy security" G8 Summit is coming soon.