Posted on 04/03/2006 7:16:44 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
Hehe, it is rather amusing.
It is pretty funny and there is actually a simple reason why it is. All the easy to get oil in the western world we have already pumped out. The US actually began with about the same oil reserves as Saudi Arabia!
So all the really backwards places in the world are where the oil is left. And by oil I mean the conventional oil that you just drill down and pump out. There is lots of oil in shale, tar sands, deep sea drilling, coal liquification etc.
They're "going along to get along" - not to worry. This news item from last Friday:
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" ... President Hugo Chavez said Friday his government will sign the agreements with foreign oil companies later in the day. He thanked the transnational companies that operate in Venezuela for their willingness to cooperate.
Most affected companies, including Houston-based Conoco Phillips, France's Total SA, U.S.-based Chevron Corp. and Norway's Statoil ASA, were expected to sign the agreements in a later ceremony. ..."
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"There is some joke GOD is playing on all of us. We have the Jihadist Muslims in the Middle East, Russian Jihadist Muslims, Socialist in Mexico and Venezuela, and Muslims Jihadist in North Africa, all sitting on the majority of the worlds oil. Something is just not right with that picture?"
And all the fifth columnist, treasonous, seditious home grown, left wing Jihadists right in out own midst.
Seems like a lot of people forgot that in becoming the best country in the world, the US avoided tyrants and dictators. Now we have the moonbats actually trying to install them.
.......It would sort of be nice if those foreign companies at least blew up the facilities before leaving.......
Perhaps the French company has the word from Chirac that Venezuela will be invaded by French commandos to hold the French oil assets. ;)
Nothing so radical is necessary. There aare ways to make things not work so well--or ever again without a refit, and still preserve most of the infrastructure.
Chavez better watch out or the French are going to take their case to the U.N.!
Or, perhaps some significantly less effective, but typical, French move.
SOmething like this happened in Libya in the 1950s iirc. It is not the first time.
That's communism. Expect it to happen more.
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