Chavez Starving Venezuela

Well, Hugo's crazy socialism is starting to starve his people. Remember seeing people in the good ol' USSR waiting in line for 5 hours for the possibility of a scrap of food? Yeah, that's what socialism does, and that's where Venezuela is heading.

Reports the AP, "Meat, Sugar Scarce in Venezuela Stores:"

Meat cuts vanished from Venezuelan supermarkets this week, leaving only unsavory bits like chicken feet, while costly artificial sweeteners have increasingly replaced sugar, and many staples sell far above government-fixed prices.

President Hugo Chavez's administration blames the food supply problems on unscrupulous speculators, but industry officials say government price controls that strangle profits are responsible.

Photo caption: "A supermarket worker explains to a customer that their meat section is out of beef and chicken in Caracas..."

Chavez: Soon To Be A Dictator

Chavez is moving quickly down the road to dictatorville, with Venezuela's Congress giving "initial approval to a bill granting President Hugo Chavez powers to rule by decree for 18 months as he tries to force through nationalizations key to his self-styled leftist revolution."

Just when I'm ready to head on down to the Castro death party, this tyrannical socialist has to seize power?

Terror Free Gas - Socialist, Maybe

Coming out of Omaha:

Group Plans 'Terror Free' Gas Station in Omaha

The Terror-Free Oil Initiative is planning to open the nation's first "terror free" gas station in Omaha.

The Florida-based group claims U.S. dollars used to purchase gas made from Middle East oil funds terrorism. It urges Americans to only buy oil products that originate from countries that do not support terrorism.

The Terror-Free Oil station in west Omaha will sell gas from oil companies that do not do business in the Middle East. Signs calling for the use of non-Middle Eastern oil were up at the station today.

Spokesman Joe Kaufman says the station will open Feb. 1, with a grand opening scheduled for Feb. 12.

Other Terror-Free Oil stations are planned.

Not a terrible idea, but are they still selling Venezuelan oil? And Russian? And are any of the liquors or tobbaco products inside French? Someone look into that.

***Update - 5:43 pm ***

Jawa did some digging, i.e. clicked two links on their site, and found that Citgo is on their banned list. Good

***Update - Jan. 25, 3:03 pm ***

We seem to be getting quite a few hits to this post, so I'm adding a video of the CNN report on the terror-free gas staion: