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| UGoGirl | Posted – 12/1/2007 9:17:04 AM | show profile And now Chavez saying he'll cut off oil supplies to the US if we cry foul regarding the vote this Sunday. Venezuela, Iran, Saudi Arabia... they've got us right where they want us. As an aside, the US is ill-prepared for oil shortages, and our increasing reliance on just-in-time delivery for fuel, food, everything makes us extremely vulnerable. A lot of entities we depend on only have a couple of days supply of gasoline, and the refineries only have a couple of days supply of gasoline. True, the strategic petroleum reserve can help but it takes at least a week or two to get oil out of there, refined, and transported to where it's needed. Just-in-time delivery may be good for business but not good for emergency preparedness. If we have gasoline shortages, all hell breaks loose... food flies off of shelves at stores, buses start running out of fuel, it can get ugly very fast. |
| questoo1 | Posted – 12/1/2007 1:44:40 PM | show profile guess that's what happens when you are always the aggressor. All the embargo's we've placed on nations can't touch this. Negotiation 101: where you sit is where you stand. At the moment, we don't have a leg to stand on |
| crimedog | Posted – 12/1/2007 5:23:10 PM | show profile This guy is out on a limb. I see an assassin on the horizon. |
| Nikongirl | Posted – 12/1/2007 7:50:34 PM | show profile Let's hope that Bush doesn't catch on to the Chavez plan of forcing people to vote him in as President for life - just when we thought we would soon be rid of him. I wouldn't put it past Chavez to play hard ball with the US and cut off oil supplies. Like he said, "I'll just turn off the spigot." |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 12/1/2007 8:37:22 PM | show profile Amazing how powerful, at least in terms of criticizing the US, both Chavez and Ahmadinejad have become with Bush as President. Including Bush they constitute the trifecta of wackola leaders. |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 12/1/2007 9:26:15 PM | show profile ... so still, even though I have many many criticisms of the US and know there are many far better places to live, I am thankful I'm a citizen of the US, rather than Iran or Venezuela. |
| chucho | Posted – 12/3/2007 10:14:30 AM | show profile Chavez can't turn off the spigot. How do you think he's funding all of his populist stuff in the first place? (Like funding "political reforms" in neighboring South American countries and building a silly "socialist city" in the mountains.) I don't like Chavez, but at the same time I don't the Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce and Ford Motor Company to run the country, either. Rock, hard place. And in between, hundreds of thousands of poor Venezuelans living in cardboard shacks clinging to the sides of deforested mountains. It's not like the Venezueland Chamber of Commerce (who's CEO almost became president during that fake coup attempt recently) is going to salve those problems either. |
| crimedog | Posted – 12/3/2007 10:39:27 AM | show profile Like any tin horn dictator it all starts well then ego overrides and paranoia sets in. If the guy cared for his country he would never try to set himself up for life. That spells imprisonment, torture and hardship for those he opposes. |
| crimedog | Posted – 12/3/2007 11:52:41 AM | show profile He lost! |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 12/3/2007 8:24:00 PM | show profile Since he appears to be accepting defeat, maybe he's not quite as power-mongering as he comes across to be? |
