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   From: dave-no_spam@unixhome.net   
      
   "John Fleming"  wrote in message   
   news:ebcs14t37b4s9c9su12se3okinfv15f7ji@4ax.com...   
   > On Sun, 04 May 2008 20:56:42 GMT, while chained to a desk in   
   > the scriptorium "Canuck57"    
   > wrote:   
   >> $"Mr.Smartypants"  wrote in message   
   >> $news:a25887df-5cf0-401c-95e7-5c5112b3bcdd@d19g2000prm.googlegroups.com...   
   >> $   
   >> $>Chavez is trying to ensure that his PEOPLE benefit from the   
   >> $>expoitation of the resources that THEY own.   
   >> $   
   >> $That is why 50% of his people are at or below the poverty line.   
   >> $   
   >> $Lets see them buy a car to burn that cheap gas.   
   >   
   > I was talking to someone earlier today about how our own   
   > hydrocarbon based society really isn't sustainable.   
   >   
   > The days when we can jump onto a plane for a couple of weeks   
   > in Mexico (or jump into my fictional Learjet for a shopping   
   > trip to Milan's exclusive designer botiques and Rome's Value   
   > Village) aren't going to last forever.  At least not the way   
   > we are doing it.   
   >   
   > And with rising oil prices pushing up the price of food, it   
   > won't be long before Venezuelans not only can't buy a car to   
   > burn the cheap gas, they won't be able to buy food either.   
      
   There will be wars for food.  I suspect Africa will be the first big place   
   to erupt.   
      
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