Chavez Threatens to Cut off Oil

Chavez Threatens to Cut off Oil

Postby TheIndependent on 02/11/08, 10:38 am

"When goods stop crossing borders, soldiers will"


Bring it on Hugo!

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Re: Chavez Threatens to Cut off Oil

Postby Eyas on 02/11/08, 3:13 pm

I could be wrong, but I don't think the U.S. gets a hugely significant amount of oil from Chavez.  

Either way, he'd harm himself more than the U.S. if he did this.

He's a pissant, tin-pot dictator who really doesn't matter to anyone other than himself, Danny Glover, and Sean Penn.
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Re: Chavez Threatens to Cut off Oil

Postby Taylor on 02/11/08, 5:20 pm

These oil people:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladni ... nt-big-oil

Ted Kennedy can take hugo's oil and shove it up his ass.
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Re: Chavez Threatens to Cut off Oil

Postby Eyas on 02/11/08, 11:33 pm

Taylor wrote:Ted Kennedy can take hugo's oil and shove it up his ass.


And with millions of barrels (or kegs) of room to spare!!!!






tee-hee, I made a funny about Kennedy's fatness!
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Re: Chavez Threatens to Cut off Oil

Postby paleocon on 02/12/08, 2:15 pm

I guess everybody forgets that they have to sell their oil to someone.  If we can't buy from them we can buy from someone else.  It will just cause a huge "shell game" that bothers everybody in the short term.  

They can't very well stop selling oil for an extended time and just sit on it.  Eventually, they would have to stop pumping when the ran out of storage and that would affect refining, shipping, etc.  Naturally, it hurts us in the short-term, but if a huge percentage of their GNP suddenly stops because they won't sell oil their economy hurts too.  

One country threatening us shouldn't overly concern us.  All countries threatening a boycott of sales is a bigger problem.
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Re: Chavez Threatens to Cut off Oil

Postby Taylor on 02/12/08, 4:14 pm

Hugo's new name is: HUGE BUTT CAMEL. Instead of Hugo Chavez. Don't ask me how, but I thought of a new nickname for him :)


Anyway, that'll just show how stupid he is if he cuts off our oil.
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Re: Chavez Threatens to Cut off Oil

Postby TheIndependent on 02/12/08, 10:11 pm

Eyas wrote:I could be wrong, but I don't think the U.S. gets a hugely significant amount of oil from Chavez.  

Either way, he'd harm himself more than the U.S. if he did this.

He's a pissant, tin-pot dictator who really doesn't matter to anyone other than himself, Danny Glover, and Sean Penn.



I read an article that said Venezuelan oil is so dirty that only a few refineries can refine it and we have most of the  few refineries  capable of the process.

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Re: Chavez Threatens to Cut off Oil

Postby paleocon on 03/02/08, 4:47 pm

Does anyone else notice a more than passing resemblance?  


These two may be among the top 100 clowns of the last one hundred years.  

There is a brief video clip of Mussolini making almost the exact same face after delivering a speech but I can't find it.
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Re: Chavez Threatens to Cut off Oil

Postby SoldiersMum on 03/02/08, 5:27 pm

Chavez has only cut off oil to Exxon.  He owns CITGO and you don't see any of them closing.  He's attempting to wage war on Columbia right now so he's a little bit preoccupied.

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Re: Chavez Threatens to Cut off Oil

Postby MajGenSnowbear on 03/10/08, 2:10 pm

Wait until the next Dubai suddenly appears in Canada.  And all of those loans for those 1000 foot indoor ski slopes in Dubai are shortchanged.  They'll be blaming a small ski town called Rossland in the Great White north.
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