{"id":197351,"date":"2008-02-11T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/11\/venezuela-threatens-oil-cutoff-over-exxon-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T03:26:00","slug":"venezuela-threatens-oil-cutoff-over-exxon-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/11\/venezuela-threatens-oil-cutoff-over-exxon-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela Threatens Oil Cutoff Over Exxon Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like we&#8217;ll have to choose between the folks who poisoned Prince William Sound, and the average American driver, because we <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/02\/10\/news\/international\/chavez.ap\/index.htm?postversion=2008021017\">have a threat from Chavez to cut off oil shipments over Exxon lawsuit filed in London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How a company based in the US files suit in the UK, over actions taken in Venezuela is beyond me.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, Venezuelan oil is not fungible.  It&#8217;s a &#8220;sour&#8221; crude, and refineries have to be set up to refine it, so this would be a hole in the world oil supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like we&#8217;ll have to choose between the folks who poisoned Prince William Sound, and the average American driver, because we have a threat from Chavez to cut off oil shipments over Exxon lawsuit filed in London. How a company based in the US files suit in the UK, over actions taken in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1135,964,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy","category-foreign-relations","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}