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You Go, Hugo
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mouths off about conservation |
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06 Feb 2007 |
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| You Go, Hugo Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mouths off about conservation The campaign to fight climate change and reduce global oil use seems to have an unlikely new champion: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. In a country where car salesfolk do a healthy business and gasoline is subsidized to 12 cents a gallon -- that's about $3 to fill an SUV -- Chavez's environmental hype has been knocked as rhetoric. But at the very ... |
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