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Birds of a feather?
Perhaps coincidentally, I came across the following two news reports consecutively yesterday morning. First from this BBC article: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to nationalise farms, in an effort to tackle food shortages. Government controls keep food prices low...
Myths about oil are hard to dispel
Amidst the demagoguery of a U.S. Presidential campaign, it's rare to find the mainstream media willing to run Robert Bryce's common sense on energy policy and oil prices. For example: Myth 3: Energy independence will let America choke off the...
"Che" Kennedy, Hugo Chavez’s useful idiot
This Examiner.com article picks up on something that this previous post noted over a year ago -- the economic absurdity of Joe "Che" Kennedy's deal with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez under which Kennedy's non-profit Citizens Oil Corp buys discounted oil...
Mississippi channels Venezuela
We all knew that it was just a matter of time before this would occur in Venezuela under Hugo Chavez's dubious economic leadership. But, as Ted Frank explains, how were we to know that Mississippi AG Jim Hood, plaintiff's lawyer...
Hugo Chavez's odd charitable venture
This OpinionJournal editorial reviews the rather odd arrangement under which Houston-based energy company Citgo -- which is controlled by the Socialist Venezuelan government of Hugo Chavez -- supplies home heating oil to former Democratic Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy, II's Citizens...
Thinking about energy prices
This earlier post noted that even the Washington Post editors now understand the folly of Congress considering a windfall profits tax against oil companies as a result of the price spikes that resulted from temporary supply disruptions. The last time...
The grand mismanagement of Citgo
This New York Times article -- entitled The Troubled Oil Company -- reviews the Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez's mismanagement of Houston-based oil company Citgo, which is owned by Petroleos de Venezuela, the Venezuelan national oil company. Over the past two...
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