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Thursday, August 25, 2005

okay, this was unexpected...

venezuelan president hugo chavez has expressed an interest in selling oil to -- get this -- poor americans:

..."we want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the united states," the populist leader told reporters at the end of a visit to communist-run cuba.

chavez did not say how venezuela would go about providing gasoline to poor communities. venezuelan state oil company pdvsa owns citgo, which has 14,000 gas stations in the united states.

the offer may sound attractive to americans feeling pinched by soaring prices at the pump but not to the u.s. government, which sees chavez as a left-wing trouble-maker in latin america...



gee, i wonder why the government hates him so much?

chavez said venezuela could supply gasoline to americans at half the price they now pay if intermediaries who "speculated... and exploited consumers" were cut out...


oh.
posted by Jim Yeager at 3:57 PM |

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