Boycott Citgo? Where have you been?
Terry Trippany on Sep 22 2006 at 7:56 am | Filed under: Feature Article
I didn’t realize that so many people were unaware that Citgo is a subsidiary Venezuela’s (and thus Hugo Chavez’s) PDVSA. I’ve been boycotting Citgo for years. Unfortunately Citgo goes way beyond gas stations and the occasional 7-11.
They have a complete asphalt and petrochemical line of business. As for gas stations all you have to do is go to this locator and put in your zip code to get a complete listing of Citgo gas stations and subsidiaries in your area.
Good luck. I’d rather walk than get my gas from this anti-American dictator. (All you lefties can spare me the democratically elected crap).
Update: Flopping Aces has a great catch on Democrat Senator Tom Harkin’s defense of Hugo Chavez’s comments to the U.N. general assembly.
Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a democrat, today defended Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s United Nations speech in which Chavez called President George Bush the devil. Harkin said the comments were “incendiary”, then went on to say, “Let me put it this way, I can understand the frustration, ah, and the anger of certain people around the world because of George Bush’s policies.” Harkin continued what has been frequent criticism of the president’s foreign policy.
Others:
- Michelle Malkin : Staying away from CITGO
- Stuck on Stupid: Boycott Citgo
- Right Voices: Sick Of Hugo Chavez? Boycott CITCO
- Conservative Musings: Citgo Anyone?
- Flopping Aces: Is America This Stupid?
- Babalu Blog: Citgo Boycott
- Captains Quarters: Citgo No Go?
- Blue Crab Boulevard: Spend Your Money Elsewhere
- The World According to Carl: Venezuela Owns Citgo?
Venezuela Owns Citgo?…
Here’s something I didn’t know…the gasoline company Citgo is owned by the Venezuelan government and as such is controlled by dictator Hugo Chavez. You remember good ol’ Hugo, dontcha? He’s the guy who’s been calling President Bush “the devi…
Since Sen. Paul Wellstone is no longer with us, Comrade Harkin has obviously adopted Comrade Chavez as his new best buddy.
It’s amazing that Iowans keep re-electing two U. S. senators so different as Chuck Grassley and Comrade Harkin.
People are free to spend their money as they please (at least the money that the government lets us keep). But it’s worth noting that Citgo is providing livelihoods for American business
owners and their employees.
Yeah, for me it is a personal choice that I am pretty adamant about. I do not wish to harm American employees but I am sure that many people will still go to Citgo. Citgo is one of the biggest employers in Corpus Christi from what I hear.
In fact the indy bay crowd launched a pro-Citgo buy in last year to counter the boycott.
You can always count on the left. So much for the environmental crowd.
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I heard that 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 third party distributors. 3% of US oil comes from Colombia, the most bloody violator of human rights in Latin America. Saudi Arabia, which has the biggest oil reserves in the world, gives its profits to the “royal family,” which includes Bin Laden. What is the $50 million fund for the new martyrs I saw on Free Republic?
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200406010834.asp
Is this worse than a Venezuelan president who conflicts with the Bush administration over globalization?
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. As I understand it, Chavez’s main disagreement with the Bush administration is over globalization and sweatshops.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=4601
As you know, Venezuela’s president is not the first to criticize Bush. Do readers extend their boycotts to French products? (perhaps) And there are some countries who would not joke that Bush is the devil- they believe it! And that is where the other oil companies are getting their oil from!
As I understand it, the question is whether to buy oil from Citgo, whose president criticizes Bush, or from the Middle East, which directly funds terrorism.