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I never bought gas ever since I found out Venezula owns CITGO about a year ago.
There's CITGO nearby my home, they are always about 10 to 15 cents less than other 5 gas stations nearby. I never bother to buy any from CITGO! NO THANKS!
I am not giving my money to support their propaganda.
Perhaps, it's time to sacrifice that ".10" difference to a gas station that supports us...and not some socialist/communist regime.
The other oil companies buy their gas from Arab countries which use them to fund terrorism. The companies buy them indirectly from Iran, Saudi Arabia, and even Libya through distributors. Even officially, 4% of Libya's oil goes to to the US. 3% of US oil comes from Colombia, the most bloody violator of human rights in Latin America. Saudi Arabia gives its profits to the "royal family" (eg Bin Laden).
This is far worse than a democratically elected Venezuelan president who conflicts with the Bush administration over globalization.
The area I live in Eastern Pennsylvania has the highest unemployment in the state. All the jobs are going to Mexico and Latin America because people are getting paid 1 an hour for a job that would pay a US worker 20$ an hour.
The first time I heard Venezuela criticized on the news, it was CNN saying Chavez spoke at an "anti-American" rally in Argentina. Then she cut over to a reporter actually at the protest. He said, no, the protest is not anti-American. They like the American people. This is an anti-globalization protest, and the people are protesting the system that gives them horrible working conditions. Van Sustren, the CNN moderator replied, "Anti-globalist, Anti-American, whatever," totally ignoring the fact that the reporter said they were not anti-American!
The corporations who move to Venezuela don't like it now that the government is regulating them to make them pay decent wages. And if Latin American countries paid people decent wages, Mexicans would not be pouring across the border, and jobs would not be pouring out of America.
If Chavez has a conflict with Bush and the corporate news about globaliztion, that's fine- our country would be better off without it.
Buy oil from Venezuela, not Saudi Arabia.
And yet Chavez has "global" ambition as well.
The answer is that we need to increase our own independency on oil. We have enough oil locked in Green formation shale of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah to the amount of some 1 trillion barrels of oil. Something like Canada's sand oil but much more. Then we have oil beneath the Gulf of Mexico. Off of the Florida coast. California cost. ANWAR. Renewable energy. Soybean gas energy...(a weak joke).
Bottom line, we have the technology to do all of this. But that takes time for the complete conversion.
hmmm...
here's the flip-side of your argument against Citgo:
http://www.commondreams.org/view...s05/0516-
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