Hugo Chavez has just reminded me why I shouldn't be buying his gas (even though it's cheaper and therefore tempting).

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of using the earthquake in Haiti as a pretext to occupy the devastated Caribbean country and offered to send fuel from his OPEC nation.

"I read that 3,000 soldiers are arriving, Marines armed as if they were going to war. There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that's what the United States should send," Chavez said on his weekly television show. "They are occupying Haiti undercover."

Besides, as Danny Glover says, the earthquake was caused by global warming. Glover is a high profile supporter of Chavez, who bankrolls his films, (including one about Haiti).

So I think the least we can do is send in the Marines -- as many as it takes to put a stop to that nasty earthquake-starting climate change thingie once and for all.

Then we can all kiss and make up.