support citgo gas and support venezuela

unfortunately I drive alot so im feeling this if you gonna buy gas ...help make some change with it!

Hey folks,

Imagine! Being able to pump gas and know the profits are going to a Revolution  that is providing its people with health care, education, food. and NOT going to corporate multinationals who are about exploitation! Now you can do this!!! When you buy CITGO GAS you are supporting  Venezuela! (see article below)

For Oaklanders, there is a gas station selling Citgo at the 7 ELEVEN at 4193 PIEDMONT AVE. in Oakland. You can click below to find other locations. Please help spread the word. This is VERY exciting!!!

Peace,

Felicia

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-25.htm

Published on Monday, May 16, 2005 by CommonDreams.org

Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!

by Jeff Cohen

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. A country with so much oil wealth shouldn't have 60 percent of its people living in poverty, earning less than $2 per day. With a mass movement behind him, Chavez is confronting poverty in Venezuela. That's why large majorities have consistently backed him in democratic elections. And why the Bush administration supported an attempted military coup in 2002 that sought to overthrow Chavez.

So this is the opposite of a boycott. Call it a BUYcott. Spread the word.

Of course, if you can take mass transit or bike or walk to your job, you should do so. And we should all work for political changes that move our country toward a cleaner environment based on renewable energy. The BUYcott is for those of us who don't have a practical alternative to filling up our cars.

So get your gas at Citgo. And help fuel a democratic revolution in Venezuela.

see 'the revolution will not be televised'

about hugo chavez

^seen it, pretty good. i saw that at this makeshift cafe and there were

alot of south americans and venezuelans there..pretty interesting hearing

their views on venezuela and chavez. meanwhile 2hours away at a shitty

little variety store i met another venezuelan lady who chewed me out for

merely mentioning chavez.

People who support chavez without actually knowing what he does is a fucking idiot.

try to think... hitler, on a more scaled down version. without all the dead jews.

Here's another thing, he's backed by castro. and we all know that communism is great right?

for real, some of you people on here really shock me at the stupidity that you exume.

i think most of yall have a knot in your head going " if it's against bush, im with it" now here's the question what if the thing that's against bush is going to hurt it's people?

idiots.

yep, i'm 'exuming' stupidity.

please enlighten: how is chavez a mini hitler?

yea i spelled that wrong, whatever.

He's trying to make venezuela a communist state. He's already taken control of the media and anything that doesnt flow with what he wants he takes out.

The big petroleum companies down there, when he first went into power and the whole issue of him trying to convert ven. into a communist state came up there was a referendum passed. Hundreds of thousands of people signed it.

A few months later. (starting about august 2004 i beleive) he began to have all the people that signed the referendum let go from their places of work. Simply put if you arent on his side you will not have any support or help from his nation.

He outlawed the dollar bill basically, it cannot go in and cannot go out. Basically shutting out the rest of the world and isolating that nation.

Passports cannot be issued in venezuela anymore and their consulates here in the united states have stopped issuing passports to their citizens as of last year. Thus making it nearly impossible for those that signed the referendum to leave that country.

In most of the big petroleum companies he let go most of the workers and brought in cuban workers, same with the military of that nation. Half of the military are cubans.

Teachers, Civil engineers, mayors, anybody in any kind of leadership role, if they voted in the referendum, their jobs were lost. It's a civil part that's happening there right now.

i could go on and on about shit that occured there and is occuring, pretty much he won the election by stating that he would get rid of all the corrupt officials in the gov. but instead switched up and is making it into a communist nation. that alone should be enough to make any person that has a remote idea of what the conditions under a dictatorship are, to oppose such a person, not pat their back because they are anti - bush.

Hugo Chavez isnt the best of people, but i wouldnt go around calling him hitler.

Its because of his isolation from the U.S. that he has to look elsewhere for support, namely Cuba. The prevailing thought is that along with Cuba, Venezuela is arming itself to promote Socialism in its neighboring countries, Colombia for example; it already has communists waging war against the ruling government. That could be a start.

The fact that Chavez can't persuade even one state to join his ALBA Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas "trade" pact signals Chavez's interest in using "other" techniques for coercion. It is also moving oil operations from Venezuela's nearby Caribbean ports to Havana's port nearly 1,000 miles away. Since the countries will be dependent on Venezuelan oil from Cuba's capital, don't imagine any of those countries will try to cross Fidel Castro. Because neighboring countries get their oil from venezuela theyre pretty much forced to buy the venezuelan oil from cuba. Thereby giving both countries a sizeable source of revenue. This is a very good deal for the Cubans, who in return provide military assistance and other forms of help to Venezuela.

Expect some shit to go down in the region within a couple of years.

Found this article as well:

http://www.vcrisis.com/index.php?content=l...rs/200505191507

May 19th, 2005 | In the U.S., it comes like a wave. All of a sudden, far-left media outlets are shilling, embarrassingly enough, for a dreaded Giant Corporation (an oil company!), Citgo, the refining and gasoline retailer once known as Cities Service. Formerly best-known for a massive neon advertising sign over Boston's Kendall Square, easily visible in nightime panoramas of the Back Bay skyline, Citgo was acquired by the Venezuelan government oil company a number of years ago.

 

This left wing apostacy from the doctrine of corporate original sin is ridiculous. It has happened in the last two days like a coordinated effort from some central planning authority in Venezuela. And given the out-of-the blue quality to it, that might be what it is. Common Dreams, Pacifica Radio, Indybay, Democrats.com and others are suddenly hawking Citgo gas to American consumers like a 1960s-era advertising campaign, the same era giving birth to the Boston neon extravaganza, which once had preservationists urging Boston to declare it a landmark. The current left-wing shilling for Citgo is a landmark of sorts, marking a willingness to alter doctrine to suit craven considerations unseen since the the day the American Communist Party switched from urging peace with Hitler to clamoring for war, when Germany turned on its former Soviet ally.

 

The move comes, ironically, a couple months after Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez declared Citgo an evil organization that gave no benefit to Venezuela because (get this!) he found out that each Citgo gas station was independently owned. Anathema!

 

Chavez was so angry at Citgo for this that he threatened to sell the chain last February. Someone apparently whispered to him the insanity of it: getting rid of a huge refining and marketing network in the world's largest consumer market would be lunacy. Venezuela produces a heavy high-sulfur grade crude oil, the hardest kind to sell when oil prices drop because of its higher cost of refining into gasoline. The idea was quietly dropped.

 

But it's true that Citgo doesn't make as much money as it should in an era of sky-high oil prices. There are at least three reasons for it. One is the squeeze all U.S. gasoline retailers are feeling with prices at the pump going sky-high. Consumers are buying less gasoline, so sales volume is down. Another reason is that the company is not public, but owned by the inefficient state oil company. Last March, Miguel Octavio proposed the idea of making Citgo a publicly traded company, which would bring needed capital into the company at a time of high oil prices. That lucrative opportunity's out of the question with market-phobic Chavez at the helm.

 

A third reason is in the atrocious way Citgo is being run. The New York Times, of all papers, published a devastating article in April about mismanagement at Citgo now that Chavez's cronies have taken control. It wasn't hard for the Times to find U.S. sources who'd quit Citgo, appalled at the pit of corruption and thuggery it was becoming. It definitely looked like Chavez's men were running it.

 

The turmoil at Citgo, though, doesn't begin to touch on the depth of destruction Chavez has wrought on PDVSA, the once mighty Venezuelan state oil company. The state oil company is bankrupt and falling apart, its production far lower than anyone imagined. Against the leftwing flackery urging U.S. consumers to buy Citgo gas in the fringe presses, Venezuela is awash in news stories about the corruption, mismanagement, and declining production at Venezuela's state oil company. It's unbelievable. Daniel in Yaracuy has a good rundown of the recent news stories exposing the extent of the decline. One important detail from all this: Chavez himself is extremely upset about the stories, and last Sunday railed away about the news on his personal television show in Venezuela.

 

The oil-company story that upset Chavez the most was in El Universal, by Roberto Giusti. He wrote an article citing $120 billion (with a b) in state oil revenue that's done nothing to benefit Venezuela, and much of which seems to be unaccounted for. He built it around the recent essays of Gustavo Coronel (an American Thinker contributor), who's done more than anyone to show how badly Venezuela has fallen as an oil power, citing his work. Daniel has a great photo of the enraged Chavez pointing to the news article close to where Gustavo's Coronel's name appears in the paper.

 

With Citgo and its parent company on the skids, it's no surprise that word from on high in Caracas would come down to urge consumers to buy Citgo gas. But it's a losers' effort, rather like newspapers believing their revenues would go up if they bash internet bloggers. A simple ad campaign would likely be more effective than this ridiculous "grassroots" effort.

 

But there is no doubt Venezuela is in trouble, because its oil earnings are neither matching what they could be if this was run like an ordinary oil company, nor high enough for the amount of waste and fraud its leaders feel entitled to. There just isn't enough money to go around for all the corruption they'd like. So, they are calling out their best troops, scattered sandalista shills in the U.S., to bring in the bacon for them.

 

It's pathetic.

We have to remember that the media in Venezuela are part of the plutocratic lackeys that incited rebellion against Chavez' popular, democratic election. He's cracking down on it with good reason. I'm sure the turmoil within the state oil company is remnants of this former plutocracy trying to bring down Chavez. It will smooth out in time. He has to release this small but powerful group from their positions. I'm sure if the people were not happy with the rule of Chavez they would overthrow him in a heartbeat. But his popularity is enormous. Much like my african buddy says, if they don't like what the government is doing, they simply overthrow it. Seems like things should be that simple here.

I will continue to buy from Citgo.

Overthrowing a government is ALOT easier said than done.

Chavez is probably Number Three on the Hit List, right after Syria. What an idiot. Ever see an aerial photo of the presidential palace in Venezuela? It should have a big bull's eye painted on the roof.

"Visualize the CIA running Chavez through a wood chipper."

But what the heck, the U.S. military-industrial complex needs a threat closer to home to keep the American people busy---preferably one that acts like a caricature of a tin-pot South American dictator---while they pump Iraq dry. All Chavez needs to do now is invite some representative of Al-Quaida to come meet with his government, so we have a plausible reason for the 101st Airborne and the 2nd Marine Division to start suiting up. We don't need an enemy like Iraq, where 99% of the people could not care less who runs the government, we need a good old Vietnam style war where we get to blast the ever-loving shit out of every village and hamlet without a care for who might be there. A country whose peasant class is unified in it's hatred and opposition to the United States, so our soldiers need not feel the slightest compassion for the enemy. Do you suppose they ordered up Chavez from Central Casting? Castro is getting a little too geezerly to make a good podium-pounding threat, so it's time for Castro II to be invented. Once Castro has had his final heart attack, then MGM and Disney and Six-Flags-Over-South-America can move back in to Havana and start construction on a new, gigantic "vacation destination," complete with cruise ship docks, mega-hotels, 24-hour gambling casinos, a interactive amusement park, military airports converted into Concorde runways, etc., etc., etc., and Caracas can become the new Communist dictatorship "only ninety miles from our shores." Well, we'll have to change that a little, Venezuela is a little farther away.

What is this liberal obsession with dictators in faraway places? If Chavez was operating in the U.S. the liberals would be his first victims, just as the members of the middle class have been his first victims in Venezuela. Once he has firmly established his reputation as a crusader for the poor, he will begin to live like a king and cut deals with the oil companies and corporations world-wide. A few bones thrown to the rabble, a few new schools and clinics, and then it's "back to business as usual," only this time it's Mr. Chavez who will be getting those big checks to his Swiss bank account.

Remember Salvadore Allende?

Originally posted by CACashRefund@May 22 2005, 10:42 PM

Overthrowing a government is ALOT easier said than done.

Quoted post

And how the fuck would you know? How many governments have you tried to overthrow?

Overthrowing small governments like that is easy. Kill the top 50-100 leaders and the country is yours.

And its A lot not alot, asshole. Stop commenting on things that you obviously don't know about, it pisses me off.

Originally posted by BobTheBuilder.+May 24 2005, 05:37 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BobTheBuilder. - May 24 2005, 05:37 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-CACashRefund@May 22 2005, 10:42 PM

Overthrowing a government is ALOT easier said than done.

Quoted post

And how the fuck would you know? How many governments have you tried to overthrow?

Overthrowing small governments like that is easy. Kill the top 50-100 leaders and the country is yours.

And its A lot not alot, asshole. Stop commenting on things that you obviously don't know about, it pisses me off.

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Bob---like anybody gives a shit if you get pissed off or not, LOL. Go get a beer and calm down, man.

I remember reading about this when that phony boycott email circulated a while back. Not all of Citgo's oil come from Venezuela. In 2002 they imported oil from Iraq and Kuwait. Not sure if any thing has changed in the last three years with the imports. FYI.

Originally posted by BobTheBuilder.@May 24 2005, 10:37 AM

And how the fuck would you know? How many governments have you tried to overthrow?

 

Overthrowing small governments like that is easy. Kill the top 50-100 leaders and the country is yours.

 

And its A lot not alot, asshole. Stop commenting on things that you obviously don't know about, it pisses me off.

Quoted post

Lick

My black cock

And tahnks fer teh enrishl lezzon dOOd i neeeeededed its.

That's your reply? How about trying to argue the point that maybe you actually do know something about overthrowing governments. Well, there obviously is no basis for an argument there because you're a 16 year old kid with pimples who plays Halo 2. Go to school.

I love to overthrow governments,

how about me and you squash this beef and overthrow... say canada, because canada smells.

Hows around noonish for you?

Hit me up maybe we can be best friends! :love2: :love2: :love2:

Noon is fine. I'm only going to come if I can hold the title "Master of Canada" but I will settle for "King Bob" or "Bob pwns Canada"

I knew this much. Citgo gots the cheapest gas prices in baltimore. 1.97 a gallon. 5 dollars top off the motorcycle,I'm good to go.

Originally posted by oneeightyone@May 22 2005, 02:34 PM

People who support chavez without actually knowing what he does is a fucking idiot.

 

try to think... hitler, on a more scaled down version. without all the dead jews.

 

Here's another thing, he's backed by castro. and we all know that communism is great right?

 

for real, some of you people on here really shock me at the stupidity that you exume.

 

i think most of yall have a knot in your head going " if it's against bush, im with it" now here's the question what if the thing that's against bush is going to hurt it's people?

 

idiots.

Quoted post

hmm. A scaled down Hitler without the genocide isnt so bad. Had Hitler dropped dead in 1938 he could have been considered the greatest German statesman to ever have lived

communism would be great if power wasnt so seductive and in the right hands.

Dubya hurts people

haha..

you guys crack me up...

this threads got the FUNNIEZ!

From BBC.co.uk

Chavez considers breaking US ties

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he will consider breaking diplomatic ties with the US if it fails to hand over a Cuban-born terror suspect.

Venezuela says Luis Posada Carriles must stand trial over the 1976 bombing of Cuba's plane that killed 73 people.

Mr Chavez says Washington would be guilty of protecting international terrorism if it refused extradition.

Mr Posada Carriles - the 77-year-old former CIA employee - was charged last week with illegal entry into the US.

US immigration officials said that he would be held in custody until an immigration court hearing on 13 June.

Washington has up to 60 days to consider Venezuela's extradition request under a 1922 treaty between the two countries.

'Wasting money'

"If they don't extradite him (Mr Posada Carriles) in the time allowed in our agreement, we will review our relations with the United States," Mr Chavez said in his regular Sunday TV programme.

He said Caracas would decide "if it worth having an embassy in the United States, wasting money, or for the United States to have an embassy here".

"It is difficult, very difficult, to maintain ties with a government that so shamelessly hides and protects international terrorism," Mr Chavez said.

The president last week described Mr Posada Carriles as "a self-confessed terrorist".

Washington stance

Mr Posada Carriles - who was born in Cuba but now holds Venezuelan nationality - has denied involvement in the attack on the Cuban airline passenger plane on a flight from Caracas to Havana.

Mr Posada Carriles escaped a Venezuelan prison in 1985 while awaiting a trial on appeal.

He was twice acquitted by Venezuelan courts of plotting to bomb the plane.

The US says it will not deport Mr Posada Carriles to any country that would hand him over to Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba.

Venezuela has said it will not hand Mr Posada Carriles over, and Mr Castro has insisted he will be happy to see him tried there.

^werd

I'm supposed to be going to Venezuela in August for the international festival of youth and students

it should be the hotness...