Good find CJR. Thanks. ________________________________________________________________________-Makes perfect sense to me....both gold and oil come from the ground. They're practically the same thing! - Chavez is an idiot. ________________________________________________________________________ PDVSA, CVG, and Chavez...the Three Stooges of Las Cristinas...yeah, that's gonna work. _____________________________________________________ "Professor Quiros -- widely considered pro-Chavez in the local political divide"--------QUESTION: How can anyone in their right mind be pro-Chavez??? I Really don't get it. ___________________________________________________________________ "The government of Hugo Chavez either has blind faith on the company headed by Rafael Ramirez (who is also Minister of Energy and Oil, Vice President for Territorial Development, and also National Director at Chavez’s PSUV party) or has no one else to turn to." ------I'd say it is blind incompetence AND Chavez has absolutely no one else to turn too. ________________________________________________________________________________________ "In 2008, PDVSA purchased over one million tons of food of which an internal audit found that only 266,000 tons ever got to the country. The cost of the one million tons of food was $2.2 billion for the period covered by the audit, implying over US$1.5 billion "disappeared." "-------Can you say 'corruption'?______________________________________________________________________________________________ "And while PDVSA's payroll has doubled in the last 5 years -- from 47,433 to 99,867 -- oil production has been declining -- from 3.5 million barrels per day (bpd) in 1998 to 2.3 million bpd in 2011."---------Ah, socialism. You gotta love it. Look out Mars, here it comes!