Chavez Seizes Private Oil Resources

NewsMax ^ | 4 April 2006

[Eagles6]

And yet the dums and the rinos refuse to open up exploration in the US.

[Muttering Mike]

I am going to cackle with laughter when Chavez gets whacked by some Euro hit squad.

Dumb, dumb, dumb Hugo...you should have stuck to poking your finger in the eye of your "mr. danger". At least then, the lefties across the pond could have feigned concern for your "banavolarian" revolution. But you are messing with their dough...

I predict that the Euros will try and frantically reestablish ties, and then move against him politically if he doesn't wobble and recant a bit.

Seems to me that if calling Bush names in the hopes of provoking things along does not work, ol' Chavez is hoping to provoke the euros into something so he can do what every dictator is great at...declaring himself leader for life for the "good" of the state and to defeat the imperialists.

[King Prout]

Hugo's taking a page from the Arabs, I see.

[KittyKares]

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.

Maybe the devil arranged it. Their governments are evil.

[ex-Texan]

I heard a rumor the oil companies had put a contract on Chavez. Of course, I might be wrong.

[Cvengr]

I liked The Wages of Fear with Edward G Robinson better, but Sorcerer did reflect much of the environment circa late 70s early 80s in N South America.

[Holicheese]

They were going to use the same title but for some reason they changed it to "Sorcerer".

[Cvengr]

Gorgeous cinemaphotography for such a hellhole.

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

{It would sort of be nice if those foreign companies at least blew up the facilities before leaving.}

Blewing up oil facilities in this type of market would shoot oil prices through the roof. We must become less dependent of foreign sources of oil before they control our economy.

We need more domestic oil, ethanol, better fuel economy, plug-in hybrids, anything that will reduce our foreign consumption. Otherwise, the US economy will continue to move more and more into the oil producing countries control.

[Tribune7]

How much longer is this guy going to last?

Since he's nationalizing French-owned fields to increase state revenue it sounds like he might be having problems.

[Tribune7]

Venezuela at this point needs a few Wyatt's Torches.

It looks like they've had their Taggart Tunnel.

[JeffersonRepublic.com]

[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?]

The joke is America. Through greed, we allowed these dirtbags to get control over our economic power.

[greasepaint]

less money for France

[Kitten Festival]

My tagline says it all

[31R1O]

I'm having this issue with a stock that I own. My IMPLATS stock has almost doubled since I bought it in September but they are currently in talks with "His Excellency" Robert Mugabe regarding his African Empowerment program. Basically they want 51% percent control of the mines and IMPLATS agreed. Like I said the stock has almost doubled and they just paid a nice dividend. I just hope I get out in time to make a little bit more.

[vic ryan]

Any idea how much it is and is there a expiration date?

[MrBlueSky2005]

It would sort of be nice if those foreign companies at least blew up the facilities before leaving.

Indeed, where is Ragnar Danneskjöld when you need him and why does almost every article on Venezuala read like something out of Atlas Shrugged?

[Graymatter]

Best Chavez critic anywhere: Gustavo Coronel.

http://www.venezuelatoday.net/gustavo-coronel/2006-archive.html

[Graymatter]

"Martinez is, like most Venezuelans, addicted to coffee. These days he is highly stressed because coffee has disappeared from the market. It is not that Venezuela does not produce coffee. It does and, furthermore, is surrounded by countries that produce large volumes of coffee, such as Colombia, Brazil or Jamaica. Yet, coffee has disappeared from the markets and the coffee shops for several months. Why? Because the government has been forcing the producers to sell it below production costs. They have refused and the government is confiscating the product..."

That's from Gustavo Coronel at http://www.venezuelatoday.net/gustavo-coronel/venezuela+real+fake.html

[Herakles]

"How much longer is this guy going to last?"

Probably not long. The one thing this idiot did not think of is that in a typical socialist society there is not very much money floating around.

Allot of people like billions of dollars, including everyone from his body guards down to the lowly private in his army. This dick might as well be walking around with a super sized target on his back.