Posted on 04/05/2015 7:40:29 PM PDT by Kartographer
Venezuela's product shortages have become so severe that some hotels in that country are asking guests to bring their own toilet paper and soap, a local tourism industry spokesman said on Wednesday….
"It's an extreme situation," says Xinia Camacho, owner of a 20-room boutique hotel in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada national park. "For over a year we haven't had toilet paper, soap, any kind of milk, coffee or sugar. So we have to tell our guests to come prepared."…
Montilla says bigger hotels can circumvent product shortages by buying toilet paper and other basic supplies from black market smugglers who charge up to 6-times the regular price. But smaller, family-run hotels can't always afford to pay such steep prices, which means that sometimes they have to make do without.
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Most of their oil is tar and asphalt. We imported it because we had the only refineries setup to refine the poor grade oil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w15kDYI8s8
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
Toilet paper as well.
Apparently one of those new all-purpose dummies: Bush’s face, Johnson’s chin, and Obama’s hair. Buy one, and use it for a lifetime. Maybe it’s a clever solution to the effigy shortage.
Just give Maduro a little time...he’s working out the pooping schedule: half the people will poop only on M-W-F, the other half will poop T-Th-Sat...and no pooping will be allowed on Sunday.
Maybe! LOL
Heh heh. Great picture!
The upscale outhouses have a supply of white corncobs,so you can check your clean-up.
...some hotels in that country are asking guests to bring their own toilet paper and soap....
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Who would be visiting that hell hole for a vacation?
Excellent point.
How about a Procter & Gamble person overseeing the mothballing or removal of the equipment necessary to make Luvs.
Babies might also be lacking disposable diapers
Heck, those would probably be STOLEN by OUR TSA!!!!!!!......
I thought in Communist countries you were suppose to share things?
Gives new meaning to, “Lend me a hand, will ya?”
Venezuela has never provided a majority of our oil imports.
U.S. Crude Oil Imports by Country of Origin
http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_ep00_im0_mbblpd_a.htm
When our imports from Venezuela peaked in 1997 at 1.77MMBPD, that was less than 20% of our total imports.
Share the wealth programs always end up as share the poverty programs.
Most of Venezuela's oil is refined outside the US.
Anyone planning a vacation in VZ this summer ?
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