Inter Press Service / antiwar.com,
With threats of a Venezuelan oil blockade helping to push petroleum prices higher, neo-conservative politicians and analysts continue to insist the biggest threat to U.S. energy supplies is Washington's reliance on Middle East oil.
President Hugo Chavez on Sunday vowed to halt oil exports to the United States and launch a “100-year war” if Washington ever tried to invade Venezuela.
The United States has repetitively denied trying to topple Chavez, but the embattled president, facing another round of demands for a referendum on his possible recall