[ggm]

No, your view is valid. The people in Venezuela deserved better than the government they had, and expropriation of the oil assets broke the system and they were left to rot. It's stupid. The parade of refugees down through Brazil to Uruguay and beyond tells a tale.

But lets not pretend this is about global oil prices, or that the oil is good oil to work with. The huge reserves are there (ie unexploited, in the ground) for a reason: it wasn't economic to exploit them.

So why has that changed now? I don't think it has.

Honestly? I don't think my words were particularly angy. Writer-Reader impedence mismatch. Your own are hardly un-emotional I might add, but lets keep off ad hom, it doesn't go anywhere useful.

teapot dome forever!