[Maelstorm]

Listen to this guy whine. Its such a beautiful thing. Venezula is going to go through another civil war in the near future if things continue as they are.

[Nervous Tick]

>> a controversial technique that involves pumping a pressurized fluid - usually composed of water, sand and chemicals

Oooh! CHEMICALS!

I read in Rolling Stone that the “chemicals” are equal parts plutonium, dioxin, and DDT.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[FatherofFive]

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blasted the United States Wednesday for its large-scale use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, saying it is flooding the market with oil produced with environmentally destructive methods.

ESAD

[NonValueAdded]

drill, baby, drill

[Autonomous User]

What’s that smell? Payback is a bitch.

[Cicero]

"You fracking b*stards!" (En Español.)

[Uncle Miltie]

Meanwhile, back in Venezuela:

[dowcaet]

You know the world is a better place when foreign countries are jealous and resentful of us in public. For almost six years we’ve been mocked and ridiculed by our enemies. Hopefully, in twenty-five months we’ll have a president who will inspire us again and one the world will think twice about tangling with on the world stage.

[Paladin2]

Why doesn’t Venezuela just stop oil exports?

[Paladin2]

Venezuela has vineyards? A Dairy Industry (for the cheese)?

[clearcarbon]

Does Maduro think we owe him something?

[Chaguito]

This is why the socialist in Venezuela will destroy his country. Is he so clueless that he believes that the frackers would do the very thing that could drive themselves out of business?

[Vince Ferrer]

This picture was from the protests in Venezuela over the summer, before oil started declining. Chavez, and now Maduro, are not dictators. They get elected because they can buy off 51% of the vote, and the biggest tool they have is oil. Until now. The price of oil now is $60, but they need almost $200 to keep the promises to their base. It is impossible for them to raise the price of oil, all they can do now is cut social payments to their supporters. It is getting unlikely that they can pay off that 51% anymore.

[Gay State Conservative]

...flooding the market with oil produced with environmentally destructive methods.

Having done some traveling in South America (but not Venezuela) I can attest to the fact that examples of environmental destruction are about as numerous as are the mosquitoes.

[nascarnation]

Cuba winds up sucking bilgewater on this deal also.
Multiple wins!

[exit82]

No money.

And no toilet paper.

Another Marxist success story.

[tflabo]

He misses those Yanqui Imperialist dollars days when his oil was high priced. Sucks to be a one trick socialist pony that Maduro? Looks like his Castroist economic model is going to the basura dump. Let Fidel bail him out now.

[PGalt]

ESAD you socialist puke, Maduro.

[lonestar67]

I don’t think this would be necessary but the geopolitical ramifications of US drilling are so profound the government subsidies to make it happen would be cheaper than a wide array of other options.

The possibility of destabilizing or crushing governments such as Venezuela, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, ISIS, and broadly reducing profit to terror friendly states is vitally important.

The possibility of not having to militarily rescue the oil supply of China with our own 5th fleet is an incredible shift in power toward us.

[ptsal]

Why buy gas from a commie dictator ???

WHO OWNS CITCO ????

Think about it....