Comments on: Venezuela Halts Oil Sales To Exxon Mobil

Move Prompted By U.S. Oil Company's Bid To Seize Billions Of Dollars In Venezuelan Assets

[brianbwb-2009]

It is time we see countries stand up to Texas oil people, even if it means higher pump prices.

Sometimes bitter medicine is needed to force Americans to change our wasteful energy habits, and sometimes big money must lose, just to let the good guys win every once in a while.

[eyedrive1]

Re: Responses to electric vehicles. First, these are proprietary LITHIUM POLYMER
batteries in stacks kept in the trunk. VERY HIGH TECH, No Memory, quick charge, low maintenance, and with a very long life, after which they will arrange for replacement and recycling of yours for which you get paid. Power gets you 0''60 in 4 secs. Only gradual loss of battery power when they age. Any they do have plans for a sedan in the $50''s and an entry level in the $30''s in the works so pretty soon most anyone can get in one soon. All they need is some more capitalization to meet demand. And as to power source, nuc works for me, not to mention water, air, clean coal, and the price of solar will drop dramatically with volume. So will efficiency with time and engineering. Between all of them on the grid we should be able to make it work, oil ain''t everything.

[jeff-fla]

-So now Exxon Mobil Corp is in charge of U.S. foreign policy? Wonderful.

They have been in charge for years. Remember the "secret meeting" during the Bush''s 1st term?

-Exxon Mobil Corp has already raped Americans with high oil prices that have led to the highest profits in history, now they are going to close the tap of Venezuela oil.

They all work together. They are just driving up the price once again

-I''''m sure they find some way to profit from that too... at the expense of U.S. drivers and the U.S. economy.

They haven''t drained all of our saving yet. Give them time, they soon will have it all

i would gladly pay twice as much for gas from an

alternate technology just for the ENTERTAINMENT value

of watching a dictator try to figure out how to pay

for his gulfstream.

[wango2007-2009]

So now Exxon Mobil Corp is in charge of U.S. foreign policy? Wonderful.

Exxon Mobil Corp has already raped Americans with high oil prices that have led to the highest profits in history, now they are going to close the tap of Venezuela oil.

I''m sure they find some way to profit from that too... at the expense of U.S. drivers and the U.S. economy.

Someone needs to crush Chevez AND Exxon Mobil Corp.

[ioweign]

Will Exxon Mobil hire Blackwater USA to protect its assets ??

[tiredofthebs]

Gotta love CHAVEZ !!!!!!


-IMPEACH BUSH

[nearl4511]

Nluclear power plants. OK.

However, making hydrogen from water continues to be an economic loser - comsumes far more energy making the hydrogen than it gives back. Even reformation with catalysis is too energy costly.

Oil companies are fine with a perceived shortage, I tell ya.

[hbevis]

RE-newster1 at 10:06 PM : Feb 12, 2008
HAVE YOU NOT HEARD ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS??

HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN BURN VERY WELL TOGETHER. AND BOTH CAN BE MADE USING THE COMMON THING THAT WE DRINK EVERY DAY. PLAIN OLD WATER.

SO, LET CHAVEZ DRINK HIS OIL.

[nothappyatall]

PS eyedrive1;

Those Tesla electric cars you mention, PRICETAG was left out;

A fully-loaded Roadster will cost $100,000, with a $75,000 down payment required to reserve one.

Electric cars will probably always be more expensive than cars that use combustion engines. The savings comes when you look at its the fuel costs and environmental impact. "

Yeah well, how many people with a $20,000 car are going to be spending $80,000 on FUEL, say 20,000 gals at $4 per gal over the normal life of about 5-7 years or so most people keep new cars?
20,000 gals of gas will get you moved around 700,000 miles @35 mpg

Nice idea but your WORKING STIFFS, families and poor are not going to be able to afford a high tech $100,000 car, only the rich will and even if they all switch over, their numbers are miniscule out of 300 million in the country.

[nearl4511]

If there is one thing that oil companies love more than an oil shortage, it is a perceived or threatened oil shortage.

Profits are UP UP UP!!!!!!

[nothappyatall]

"For those really interested in all-electric vehicles that produce zero emissions,"

Posted by eyedrive1"

There is NO such thing as ''zero emissions'' vehicles, all you are doing is transferring the pollution and fossil fuel burning from your tailpipe to the POWER PLANT smoke stack, electric cars are NOT a free ride!
Most power plants are barely able to keep up with the damand as it is NOW, thats why you have brownouts, blackouts and problems during the summer with all those air conditioners overloading the grid on hot days, add in a few million battery chargers charging cars and you will really see the problem.

Electric cars are NO GOOD in the snow belt, you cant run wipers, defroster, heater and lights and expect to drive any distance on battery power.
Charging batteries is VERY inefficient, a large loss in the charging conversion is lost as heat, lead-acid batteries also do not last and need to be replaced as well as disposed of/recycled. As those whose starting battery dies suddenly with no warning one day around age 3 years can attest, when the things go bad they just GO, and that could be at a bad time.

[nothappyatall]

Figures that EXXON would do something stupid that would surprise surprise- make the price of gasoline at the consumer end higher still.
We may be #1 importers of his oil, but not for long, CHINA''s economy and demand for oil have skyrokcketed, the US purchasing power will dwindle as they start selling more higher priced oil to China.
Of course BUSH was behind attacking Chavez in the media and creating a lot of this hostility.

"I would actually like to see gas hit $8 a gallon. That would end fossil fuels once and for all."

Oh? think so? and what do you think will happen to the cost of EVERYTHING you buy or use in the years it takes to make changes? remember- EVERYTHING runs on energy- OIL in one form or another, including your electric, food transportation and those nice solar panels that have to be manufactured using fossil fuels- their cost due to that and sudden demand will skyrocket!

"because at $8 a gallon it becomes ecomicly viable to go out buy an electric car and put solar panels on my house."

Buy one? IF you can, and IF you can find places to plug in to recharge on the road, and it takes hours to recharge all those batteries and they dont last long.
Priced a roof of panels lately? its around $20,000 for a small system- would take 20 years to even break even but with a huge demand and shortages or panels- expect that cost to go to $60,000

" $8 gas let them keep thier oil. We''ll use something else.

Posted by cbscrash07"

Such as ? ethanol? LOL read the impact of that.

[walt1944-2009]

The Great Emperor Bush is upset that Venezeula may cut off oil supplies to the US if the greed of Exxon-Mobil gets its way in the courts.

The Great Emperor is considering moving the country of Venezeula up to No. 2 on his "TO INVADE" list, right behind Iran. He already hs both VP Darth Vader Cheney and Paul (Wolfy) Wolfovitz working on a list of "reasons" to invade Venezeula, and it has been learned the first "reason" is that the CIA has learned that Osama Bin Laden has built an Al Qeada "terrrrrrrorist" base in the back yard of Hugo Chavez'' presidential palace complete with WMD''s formerly belonging to Saddam Hussein!

Meanwhile the citizens of the USSA will be riding bicycles to work as they USED TO do in China 30 years ago before NAFTA and the nightmare of the Bush years was ever thought of!

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!!

[andrew_693]

The days of driving a fu...ing tank in the streets wearing a straw hat dressed up in a cowboy costume and growing a beer belly for fun are over. Whether we want it or not we are going to have to find a solution to this problem of foreign oil dependency. Those who favor big oil are against our country and independence, they want us to be dependent on the saudis, the taliban, the venezuelans etc.... Time to get rid of the christian republicans and get our freedom and independence back.

[hypnotoad72]

Well, if the US is the key stone to the global economy, gerbilbrain''s desire to cut off sales - to anybody - isn''t going to please anybody. Anybody. For all the rabble''s talk of "GI George wants a country to invade", you''re not as much myopic as you are wrong.

I think the King of Spain said it best...

Oil is a necessity. But there are plenty of viable venues, even if Mr Chavez actually does what he claims.

[rgmiron]

This is one of many changes, I believe are ahead of use. It will hurt but in the long run we, and our children, will come out ahead. You fear mongers and anti-american idiots will just once again wake up the creative sleeping Giant.

[eyedrive1]

For those really interested in all-electric vehicles that produce zero emissions, get the equivalent of 150 mpg, made in America (for the most part), get 250 miles on a few hours charge, will end our dependence on foreign oil (75% of which goes to transportation) search Tesla Motors. You will be astounded at what you find there.

[Syndicate]

I would actually like to see gas hit $8 a gallon. That would end fossil fuels once and for all. the other OPEC nations better settle Hugo down before he goes and ruins the oil market forever. I say this because at $8 a gallon it becomes ecomicly viable to go out buy an electric car and put solar panels on my house. $3 gas its cheaper to burn gas. $8 gas let them keep thier oil. We''ll use something else.

[Syndicate]

mh4cbs1 your a dumba$$.