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2010-02-09 Caribbean-Latin America

Chavez puts Venezuela under 'electricity emergency'

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Posted by Ebbesh Speaking for Boskone2051 2010-02-09 07:19|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Reddy Kilowatt isn't a Bolivarian Revolutionary?

Posted by Frank G 2010-02-09 07:56|| 2010-02-09 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Industrial users will also have to cut their usage by 20% or face sanctions.

And that means the presumably useful output of these enterprises also decreases by 20%. Hurrah for socialist logic!

Posted by gromky 2010-02-09 08:03|| 2010-02-09 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 They're way behind Caliphornia. Mr. Davis did that 10 years ago.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-09 08:17|| 2010-02-09 08:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Who goes first - El Gordo or El Commandante?

Posted by Glomock Tojo6610 2010-02-09 08:52|| 2010-02-09 08:52|| Front Page Top

#5 But isn't an emergency something that, by definition, is unexpected? I would call this a logical consequence of mismanagement.

Posted by gorb 2010-02-09 11:06|| 2010-02-09 11:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Just a good electrical storm or two and he will have risen his country to North Korean standards.

Posted by newc 2010-02-09 11:17|| 2010-02-09 11:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Someone needs to put that country under a "Chavez Emergency".

Posted by crosspatch 2010-02-09 12:35|| 2010-02-09 12:35|| Front Page Top

#8 He has an easy solution: nationalize the electric companies.

Posted by KBK 2010-02-09 12:35|| 2010-02-09 12:35|| Front Page Top

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