Chavez to provide cheap oil to poor Americans

[The Duke]

I can see it now.  Poor black children in Harlem filling their aching stomachs with petroleum and migrant farmers in the San Jaoqin Valley opening a nice can of Petrol after a long day in the fields.

[The Duke]

Chavez is a horrible person.

But he's absolutely brilliant.

Because most people don't know that oil is useless unless refined.  Giving oil to poor people does them no good at all, because they'd need corporations to refine it.

Not to mention his idea is so illogical and self serving we'd never accept it, so he can make promises without ever having to bear the consequences of living up to them.