Venezuela helps Alaska:National oil company will buy heating fuel for Nati

[Judi Lynn]

Venezuela helps Alaska
National oil company will buy heating fuel for Native villages

Published: September 6, 2006
Last Modified: September 6, 2006 at 06:27 AM

The irony of it.

Alaska, an oil-rich state with more than $34 billion in its Permanent Fund, more than $2 billion in its budget reserve fund, a budget surplus the past two years -- and thousands of villagers fearing another winter of costly heating oil bills.

All that is ironic enough -- residents going cold in a land with so much oil and money. But it gets worse, or more embarrassing, depending on your perspective.

Several thousand Alaska villagers will benefit this winter from a new government-funded energy assistance program. Not the Alaska government, not the U.S. government, but the government of Venezuela.

Yes, that South American nation led by President Hugo Chavez, friend of Cuba's Fidel Castro and fierce critic of President Bush. Venezuela, which provides cheap oil to Haiti and other developing nations, is adding Alaska to its gift list.
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http://www.adn.com/opinion/view/story/8162994p-8055863c.html

[partylessinOhio]

1. Viva! Chavez! Make friends not enemies.

Bush has done nothing to help the poor in Amerika!

Viva! Chavez!

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Chavez isn't thinking this will embarrass PNACers to treat their taxpayers

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FAIRLY, is he?

Cuz they won't . . .

Taxpayers only purpose for the PNACers is so they have the funds to keep that never-ending War-Machine going.

The Robber Barons thrive . . . .

while others strive to survive

(sigh)

[badgervan]

3. I Got Mine... To Hell With You.

Hey, its their own darn fault for not being born into a super rich bush-type family. Its the American way, don't you know.