Do you consider this a threat to the US?
Iran and Venezuela, the world’s fourth- and fifth-largest oil exporters, are also exploring for oil together in Venezuela’s Orinoco region. And they have plans for a joint oil trading company, part of an ambition by Caracas and Tehran to price oil in euros instead of dollars in order to weaken the influence of the United States in the international oil market.
It seems to be their plan to "hurt" the US in anyway they can.
Do you think it could become the catalyst for war ?
Im interested in your thoughts on this .
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Take a look at the links in here, too. Yeah, it's a threat. But I'd rather have it be a threat from outside than inside, if you get my drift.
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actually, fear mongers like you are the biggest threat to the USA.
Hurt economically but that's about it.
Hugo Chavez did a lot of good for his people. Maybe when we get a better president he will start getting along with Iran and Venezuela.
Chavez knows its the best way to hurt the U.S. Chavez is going to dig his own grave with his actions.
I don't think they would be stupid enough to start a war with the US, well, actually they could be. But you are right. I heard (somewhere) that Osama had some kind of stake in oil here and Bush's daddy took it from him which angered him to blow up the US. Or something to that effect, don't quote me on that, it was hearsay.
Chavez has done a lot of good for his people. Unfortunately the US government likes to try and influence people into doing things, or not doing things, for their sole benefit. Chavez doesn't give into the pressure, so the American media twists things into making him seem like a bad guy.
Economically, they can try it and possibly do some damage. No shooting war, though. If they can't get it done in the next ten years, it will not be worth doing as our government is starting to see we must break the dependence on oil.
Iran has oil sanctions in place. I'm not sure about Venezuela, but it might. I suspect the sanctions will be expanded if they try anything.
they havent done anything..leave them the **** alone.
I may be crazy.....but to me something like this might be why there is this push for the NAU and why they want to bring Mexico in the deal. If they ever did start some sort of war it would most likey start comming through Mexico instead of risking them having Mexico and potential war at our border. Unfortunatly in my opinion....Mexico has stronger ties with them because of the massive drug trade and frankly....from the attitude I see expressed about America from many Mexicans.....I'd never consider them an ally.
There HAS to be another underlying agenda for not wanting to secure that border. Heck Canada is going to be spending millions to secure their border. They use 9/11 as a reason....but also bring up the NAU.
I dont see it as a threat, and isnt Iran our ally? Are you trying to scare people? what does this have to do with immigration?
I feel wrong by saying this, but it was about time. Our government has been controlling other countries' industries to our advantage for centuries, and I think those countries have had enough. I really don't want to pay higher prices for gas, but I think this will make everybody be balanced in "middle-class" therefore establishing a world-wide democracy where everyone counts and not just one where the U.S. tells them what to do.
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By: Joseph P. Kennedy II - Boston Globe
There's been a lot of controversy lately over whether Citizens Energy Corp. should distribute -- and the poor should accept -- discount heating oil from Venezuela while that country is under the leadership of President Hugo Chávez.
But those who have no problem staying warm at night should not condemn others for accepting Venezuela's oil. Rhetoric means little to an elderly woman who has to drag an old cot from her basement to sleep by the warmth of the open kitchen stove or give up food or medicine to pay her heating bill.
For nearly 30 years, Citizens Energy has provided senior citizens and low-income families with affordable fuel oil, gas, electricity, pharmaceutical drugs, and other basic necessities. Citgo Petroleum is a US company owned by the people of Venezuela. The oil it provides to Citizens Energy, the nonprofit that I lead, acts as a safety net for hundreds of thousands.
When our partnership with Citgo was announced last year, US Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman praised the discount program as corporate philanthropy. "It's a charitable contribution," he said, "and I wish more companies did it." Charities like the Baseball Hall of Fame and the Muscular Dystrophy Association receive generous donations from Citgo, but no one is telling them to decline the gifts.
Meanwhile, oil companies other than Citgo have declined to share their record profits with those who most struggle to keep pace with rising energy costs.
In spite of the fact that heating oil prices have doubled over the past few years, the federal fuel assistance program faces a one-third cut this year, from $3.1 billion to $2.1 billion. Washington earns windfall tax revenues from the rising prices of petroleum products, but not a cent goes to offset rising energy costs for the poor. Nor do the poor benefit from increased royalties on gas and oil taken from federal lands and waters -- if, in fact, the energy companies pay the government at all.
Criticism of our program isn't about cheap heating oil. It's all about Hugo. While conservative interests in this country don't like him, US businesses don't mind his money and his marketplace.
Otherwise, why would General Motors and Ford sell more than 300,000 cars a year in Venezuela? Why would Chevron Texaco, Exxon Mobil, Shell, and other major corporations -- including Vice President Cheney's old firm, Halliburton -- invest and earn billions every year off of petroleum exploration, production, refining, and transportation in the country? Why would US insurance companies, banks, telecom firms, entertainment conglomerates, and consumer product manufacturers flock to our Latin American neighbor?
American consumers certainly don't mind doing business with Venezuela. More than 558 million barrels of Venezuelan crude and oil products were shipped to the United States last year. Just one-half of 1 percent of that goes into our organization's program, but that's the only portion that draws criticism.
Even though doing business with Venezuela has been very good for capitalists, the issue at hand is Chávez and his politics of socialism. Before we accept the characterizations of him as a socialist threat to our way of life, we ought to look at our own country -- ironically, a system of socialism for the rich and free enterprise for the poor.
Banks make billions on the gap between federal lending rates and what they charge consumers to borrow for homes, cars, small businesses, and personal needs. The government guarantees their deposits, so that if the banks fail, the taxpayer is left holding the bag.
Insurance companies charge consumers with premiums that go up and up, yet expect the government to cover their losses when they get hit -- as we saw in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Student loan corporations, working closely with colleges and universities, contribute to spiraling higher-education costs with loans guaranteed by the government.
The fact is that many of the bluest of our blue chip corporations may actually be wearing a shade of Hugo Chávez red beneath their suspenders -- with one major difference: They're fine with socializing the risks of capitalism, so long as they can privatize the profits. As for the poor? They're decidedly on their own.
Meanwhile, in Venezuela, the president is socializing his nation's oil profits. Poverty has dropped by 25 percent. State-sponsored provision of basic needs like food and healthcare has expanded.
So, sure, we'll distribute Hugo's oil. Doing so is called compassionate capitalism. Right now, our country's vulnerable families fend for themselves, while the well-to-do can afford to throw snowballs at our program from the security of their warm homes and offices.
Joseph P. Kennedy II, a former member of Congress from Massachusetts, is the founder, president, and chairman of Citizens Energy Corporation.
Yes it is. But your wrong--it is not their fault. It is ours for letting ourself get in the position in the first place.
And it could have been prevented a long time ago and no one is working hard to change it..
Rather we go to war over it-maybe greedy people are never satisfied.
But the blame is ours.
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