Woo-hoo Vermont is among Hugo Chavez's chosen ones!

That's either because it gets awfully nippy up here, the fairly large group of fairly poor people up here in the land almost without industry, our semi-socialist (Canadian!) policies on some things, or a mix of all of these things.

Unfortunately for Chavez Rednecks don't exactly take a liking to him, and even free oil may not turn them into Venezuela loving, red-sweater wearing, hippies! And the other half of the population already are hippies so that's not exactly going to change anything now is it?