On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:50:55 -0700 (PDT), John B
wrote:

On Sep 2, 5:24*pm, James Farrar wrote:
shovelling money into the Venezuelan state oil company

Um, that was a Livingstone policy.

No, that was taking money *from* the Venezuelan state oil company.

Didn't it involve buying fuel from them at a reduced price? That's
still giving our money to them.