Hugo Chavez

I don't care what he thinks about our policies. He probably didn't appreciate hearing from a government official we should assassinate him.

As long as he doesn't become another Castro and keeps sending us our oil without bending us over, I don't care.

The situation over there may already be very bad. I'm somewhat uneducated.

I don't care what he thinks about our policies. He probably didn't appreciate hearing from a government official we should assassinate him.

As long as he doesn't become another Castro and keeps sending us our oil without bending us over, I don't care.

The situation over there may already be very bad. I'm somewhat uneducated.

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,184021,00.html

We get between 10%-15% of our foreign oil imports from Venezuela. Recently Chavez has been fighting a war of words with Washington over what he considers US attempts to undermine his government. As of late he has threatened to sell his oil to other countries.

By doing so he would inflict as much damage to his country as ours if he followed through with his threats. It seems not just any country can refine the oil he exports.His refineries, or the refineries he sells his oil to in the US,
are specially designed to refine Venezuela's heavy, highly sulfurous crude oil .

"If they sell these refineries, there are no other refineries in the world able to process Venezuelan crude, not in sufficient capacity," said Jose Toro Hardy, a Chavez critic and former director of the state oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA.

For now it's a war of words, but it's conditions and statements such as Chavezs that continue to keep oil prices at an all time high.

Washington needs to come up with a comprehensive energy policy.A target of a 10% reduction in oil consumption implemented through a conservation policy would be a good start IMO.