Americans: Buy Your Gas at Citgo
This may be the only ad you'll see me run; but I do it gladly this time.
Looking for an easy way to protest Bush foreign policy week after week? And an easy way to help alleviate global poverty? Buy your gasoline at Citgo stations. And tell your friends.
Of the top oil producing countries in the world, only one is a democracy with a president who was elected on a platform of using his nation's oil revenue to benefit the poor. The country is Venezuela. The President is Hugo Chavez. Call him "the Anti-Bush."
Citgo is a U.S. refining and marketing firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company. Money you pay to Citgo goes primarily to Venezuela -- not Saudi Arabia or the Middle East. There are 14,000 Citgo gas stations in the US.
(Click here http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp to find one near you.) By buying your gasoline at Citgo, you are contributing to the billions of dollars that Venezuela's democratic government is using to provide health care, literacy and education, and subsidized food for the majority of Venezuelans.
Instead of using government to help the rich and the corporate, as Bush does, Chavez is using the resources and oil revenue of his government to help the poor in Venezuela.
Read on ....
posted by Earl Duthler at 12:53
3 Comments:
Actually, unless you use less gas, this won't accomplish anything. Assuming constant demand, buying more gas from Citgo simply means that other international or domestic consumers will shift to non-Citgo petroleum - therefore a zero net gain for Venezuela.
This is without comment on the state of Chavez's "universal health care".
Aside from the fact that your post was completely plagiarized.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-25.htm
I don't follow your reasoning in your first comment. Because someone would buy from Citgo does not mean someone else will not.
Chavez cannot possibly completely reverse years of the results of foreign control. But he's well on his way.
No plagiarizing at all. Anything I write is italicized. All else is a direct quote from the source.
If you had read my "about this blog" piece, you would have also seen that posted there.
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