Day 9: Gasoline prices, revisited

Whoops! After going strong for eight days, I finally missed a day in my "100 Days of LJ" task. Ah well. There will only be floggings if I can find somebody appropriate to administer them.

It's been a busy weekend thus far, and a lot of fun, but I'm too damn sleepy to write about it now. So, instead, I will share an article that I found a few days ago when I was thinking about gasoline prices. This Reuters article came out the same day that Pat Robertson declared we should assassinate Hugo Chavez. While our peaceful nation was deliberating this statement, Chavez was making an offer of cheap Venezuelan gasoline to the poor in the United States.

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Interesting, yes? Somehow this story did not receive very widespread press. Can't imagine why...

Day 9: Gasoline prices, revisited

Whoops! After going strong for eight days, I finally missed a day in my "100 Days of LJ" task. Ah well. There will only be floggings if I can find somebody appropriate to administer them.

It's been a busy weekend thus far, and a lot of fun, but I'm too damn sleepy to write about it now. So, instead, I will share an article that I found a few days ago when I was thinking about gasoline prices. This Reuters article came out the same day that Pat Robertson declared we should assassinate Hugo Chavez. While our peaceful nation was deliberating this statement, Chavez was making an offer of cheap Venezuelan gasoline to the poor in the United States.

( Here is the text of the article: )

Interesting, yes? Somehow this story did not receive very widespread press. Can't imagine why...