TO SENATE: Chavez tells the truth on OIL crisis, you DON'T

[yurbud]

I'm faxing this to all US senators, and my representatives.

October 15, 2005

United States Senate
Washington, DC

Senator,

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and former OPEC chair Hugo Chavez has said we have reached peak oil production, the world is facing an energy crisis, and we must develop other forms of energy.

It's sad that the president of a Latin American country is more honest about our energy situation than our own elected officials. If you don't trust Hugo Chavez, National Geographic, Scientific American, and gas and oil journals have been making the same point for a while.

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0406/feature5/?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.com
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/sciam983.htm
http://www.mymethow.com/~joereid/oil_coup.html

KEY EXCERPTS:

Chavez: World Faces Major Energy Crisis

By CIARAN GILES, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that the world faces an energy crisis but there is little chance of his country and other OPEC members increasing production because they are already pumping near "their capacity."

"We're at the doorway of major energy crisis worldwide," Chavez said. "We'll have to develop other resources such as wind, solar and nuclear energy — naturally for peaceful purposes." He said Venezuela was in talks with Argentina and Brazil regarding nuclear power.

"The United States for example, with scarcely five percent of the world's population, uses almost 25 percent of the petroleum and combustion fuels produced in the world," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051015/ap_on_bi_ge/spain_chavez_oil

Our current energy policy seems to be to invade and occupy oil producing countries until every last drop is sucked out, which is costing us dearly in lives, tax dollars, and the goodwill of the rest of the world while oil companies reap the profits and repay us by gouging us at the pumps.

When will you do your job, be honest with us and start working for the welfare of the American people instead of the oil companies and the cronies of the president?

Stop the happy talk about “success strategies,” and just tell us the truth about why we are in Iraq, and it will make it that much easier to get out and prevent the invasion of Iran.

[goclark]

1. Can Chavez be our President?

He makes so much more sense than the Chimp.

[Mass]

2. Some Democrats would agree with you.

The Republican majority, however, is too linked to the oil lobby to accept that.

[yurbud]

3. it would at least let them know that not everyone is fooled.