Satan's Poop Inc. Paila Master: PicturesPictures tell a story much better than words. I can tell you about marches, demonstrations and events, but nothing beats accompanying what I am saying with pictures to show the truth. In this section I include all pictures from other sections, except the orchids......A picture is worth 10,000 words 33: Central Bank's study of the population- July 31, 2007 This is a puzzling graph which appeared in El Universal a couple of days ago and I don't quite know what to make of it, it is the Central Bank's (BCV) study of Venezuelan homes:1) It says Venezuela was mostly a middle class country in 1997 and has remained the same since.2) There has been little change since 1997. Only 1.1% of the poorest families moved from strata V tto IV.the biggest change is in the increases in the seond strata, which is fully middle class3) Given the change in the price of.http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/pictures/2007/07/30.html#a3573 A picture is worth 10,000 words 32: Estimating Venezuela's gas consumption- July 31, 2007 PDVSA's black box does not tell us what is the national consumption of gasoline and diesel of the vehicles in the country. Recently a presentation by PDVSA's former economist Ramon Espinasa, put the number at 770,000 barrels per day. In this post we estimate the number using the growth in vehicle sales in the last few years and compare it to Espinasa'sIn the figure above (which has a shift in the x-axis (My Mac died, using Windows!), that is, the first point corresponds to 2001, the last one to.http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/pictures/2007/07/30.html#a3571 A Picture is worth 10,000 words 31: Active drilling rigs in Venezuela- July 16, 2007 From Espinasa's presentation: Number of active drilling rigs in Venezuela since 1990. Somewhat low since Chavez too over and now if you signed against Chavez and you work at a rig, you are out!http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/pictures/2007/07/15.html#a3550 A Picture is worth 10,000 words 30: Venezuela's Crude oil exports- July 14, 2007 From the same presentation as before, the evolution of Venezuela's crude oil exports since 2000, showing what PDVSA exports and adding to it the exports of the heavy crude partnerships of the Orinoco oil belt. Clearly, the situation is not pretty as the combination of lower production and higher internal consumption has lowered the export of the country's main source of income significantly. The trend is certainly not the Government's friend.http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/pictures/2007/07/14.html#a3546 A picture is worth 10,000 words 29: Venezuela's crude oil production- July 13, 2007 The graph above shows Venezuela's crude oil production according to the IEA since 2,000. The red line is crude production without the heavy oil partenrships, while the black is total. The plot also shows the daily consumption of gasoline in the country which is already up to 770,000 barrels a day. Not a very pretty picture.(Taken from a presentation by PDVSA's former Chief Economist Ramon Espinasa)http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/pictures/2007/07/12.html#a3544 |