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It's hard to find much to disagree with via-a-vis Chavez's intervention in the climate change debate. However, has it struck anyone as sort of odd that Venezuela is a major producer of climate change CO2 feed stock? The fashionable slogan at Copenhagen is "Oil, leave it in the soil" and other haiku's for tar sands and coal, all of which Venezuela is producing in ever greater amounts. The Venezuelan State clearly differs from this perspective and I'm wondering if anyone has raised this with them? Even the much vaunted Correa gov't in Ecuador is mired in a bit of hypocrisy. They received much publicized media coverage for their decision not to develop a jungle oil field, to "leave it in the soil". However, it hasn't stopped them at all from basing their entire export economy on producing oil...and more oil, in more accessible fields closer to existing pipelines. Ecuador is doing anything BUT "leaving it in the soil". My own opinion is that the slogan(s) is dumb. It does not address the huge structural issues with energy that do need to be addressed and are not. But I wanted to raise this as Venezuela seeks billions of foreign investment to develop their oil-shale projects (huge prodigious extraction methods producing huge quantities of CO2 even before it gets burned in US and Chinese automobiles). David ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
