Alaskans to Hugo Chavez: Keep Your Oil

On the other hand, the article continues:
About 150 native villages in Alaska have accepted money for heating oil from Citgo. The oil company does not operate in Alaska, so instead of sending oil, it is donating about $5.3 million to native nonprofit organizations to buy 100 gallons this winter for each of more than 12,000 households.

"When you have a dire need and it is a matter of survival for your people, it doesn't matter where, what country, the gift or donation comes from," said Virginia Commack, an elder in the arctic village of Ambler, an impoverished Eskimo community of 280 where residents are paying $7.25 a gallon for fuel.

For years, Alaska natives have accused the state and federal governments of sending too little money to their tiny, far-flung communities, where fuel and grocery prices are bloated by the high costs of delivery by plane and barge.
An editorial last month in the Anchorage Daily News bashed the Legislature's rejection in March of an $8.8 million state supplement to a federal program that helps poor Alaskans with home heating costs.

"It's embarrassing that residents in a state with so much oil wealth should be looking to a foreign nation for help," the newspaper said. "It's hard to blame villagers for accepting the gift."
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The reals story is still those who turned it down because they consider themselves to be patriotic Americans first.

I applaud them.:applause:

 

I will applaud that sentiment!

 

Makes me proud.

It's just an easy way out. "Well, someone's gotta help us or else!"

The natives that I know work for what they have, either by working at a job, or hunting, fishing, picking berries, and growing crops.

But, then again, most of the natives that I know left the villages because of all the lazy, alcoholic, drug addled people in the villages.

 

Still, if the Federal government does not sit up and take notice of the Alaskan people's complaints about being "left behind", the likes of germs such as Hugo Chavez will continue to insult the patriotism of Americans while at the same time pretending to be benevolent to the poor.

 

So, the answer is to pay off the leeches?

 

I second that applaud and good for the patriots!:applause: As I have started giving more my busines to such as those. I would rather pay more elsewhere than give my money to those as Citco. Unless they change.

take care.

 

You would think that, with all the profits American oil companies have raked in in the past few years, due to overpricing in the futures market and corporate greed, that American companies, not a Venezuelan company, would step up to the plate and help.

 

Beware of the wrath of KenH!

 

But... But... But... They're still making a profit! How dare they!