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Chavez Threatens To Cut Off Oil Shipments If US Opposes His Impending Dictatorship

By Rob on December 1, 2007 at 02:13 pm
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If we don’t keep quite about Chavez appointing himself dictator for life, we don’t get any oil.

Personally, I say let him try.  Oil revenues make up a big chunk of where Chavez’s government gets its revenues.  While on one hand this means that we Americans are funding this cruel thug by buying his oil, it also means that should he refuse to sell us oil he’d be shooting himself in the foot.

America is the biggest consumer of oil on the planet.  Chavez may be able to sell the oil he was selling us to other nations, but who else is going to buy as much as we do?

So it’s an idle threat, I think.  If he did it, it’d hurt him more than it would hurt us.  But even if it did hurt us more we should still oppose his power grab, because as the Americans we should support the aspirations of all free people.  And Hugo Chavez’s regime has little to do with freedom.

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2Hotel9

Chavez has ordered the sell off of all of Venezuela’s refining and transfer facilities in America. So fuck him. We own it, it is all in our country. Just like he stole all the petroleum company property in Venezuela.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2Hotel9 on December 1, 2007 at 05:00 pm
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Oil is fungible.  It makes no difference that tHugo won’t sell his oil to us, because whoever does buy it frees up their previous supplier to provide us with that stream of oil.  This is all smoke and mirrors.  It seems that Venezuelans see through his bullcrap, and I don’t think he’ll make it another year without a bloody purge of some variety.

skh.pcola on December 1, 2007 at 07:58 pm
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Actually Chavez would have no trouble selling his Venezuelan oil on the emerging asian markets. Should that happen, we may need to provide Hugo with deluxe accomidations at the El Presidente de Panama Suite in Florida for a few years.

pparets on December 1, 2007 at 08:04 pm
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I’m sure the other oil-producing countries would be glad to increase their revenues at Hugo’s expense.  Heck, we might even be stimulated to develop our own oil!  Imagine that.

Will America hold to the principles of capitalism and free enterprise or will it embrace elements of socialism, Marxism and communism? Those are our choices.
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robert108 on December 1, 2007 at 08:17 pm
2Hotel9

Too true, pp. Noriega has vacated the room recently, has he not? A quick change of linens and a bit of paint and viola!, ready for tHugo.(I like that,skh!)

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

2Hotel9 on December 2, 2007 at 06:38 am
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