Oil Fat Cats Vs. Hugo Chavez: He's stealing the oligarchy's oil

[Karmadillo]

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=45&ItemID=8586

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Last year, Exxon/Mobil, the world's largest corporation, posted the highest profits of any company in history - more than $25 billion. The oil giant, based in Irving, Tex., is on track to shatter that mark this year, with revenues that now approach $1 billion per day.

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"This is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us badly," Robertson said. His less-than-Christian remarks ignited an outcry and forced him to issue an apology of sorts, though he still insisted that he had at least "focused our government's attention on a growing problem."

That "problem," quite simply, is that Chavez, a radical populist who has been voted into office repeatedly by huge majorities in his own country, controls the largest reserve of petroleum outside the Middle East.

Neither Robertson, nor former oil executives George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice, nor their buddies at Exxon/Mobil, Chevron, etc., are happy about all this.

Even more scandalous for Big Oil, Chavez is using Venezuela's windfall not to fatten his own country's oligarchy but to benefit the Venezuelan poor and help neighboring countries.

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[bee]

1. $1 billion per DAY?!

:mad:
Are you f'ing kidding me?
Our economy is going down the shithole, people are poor, starving, have no healthcare, etc. and these assheads are raking in a billion dollars a DAY?
How is this not a crime!!!???


:banghead:

[Joanne98]

2. Feeding the poor is the worst crime a third world leader can commit...

If you feed the poor the US goverment will kill you. PERIOD!

[K-W]

3. They cant ever allow a good example to exist.

Not only does Chavez threaten our colonial control by making an example for the people in our colonial sphere, he threatens the very social structure of the United States. Without a third world to feel better than, the suppression of US workers becomes a much trickier proposition.