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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: T L Comiskey who wrote (9859)1/23/2010 12:05:37 PM
From: Ron  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 24223
 
Want to bet the US Government suddenly discovers a threat to our national security in Venezuela and dispatches troops to secure the, ahem, endangered areas?



To: T L Comiskey who wrote (9859)1/24/2010 11:39:09 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 24223
 
Tar sands, dude...

In a new assessment (PDF), government geologists with the United States Geological Survey have provided a dramatic new estimate of how much oil is “technically recoverable” from these oil sands, in an area known as the Orinoco oil belt: 513 billion barrels of heavy oil.
greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com

Here's an article on how to extract them...

theoildrum.com

graph of Venezuela exports
theoildrum.com

Meanwhile,there are problems with energy... see my post B4 yours.