Join the Buy-cott!

Bush still get's the tax.

 

Way ahead of you.:thumbs:

I stopped buying Citgo and starting telling others many months ago.

 

Citgo is based here in Houston. Boycotting them will only lead to loss of jobs here. It won;t hurt Chavez one bit.

Boycott cocaine instead. That should put a big dent in the Venezuelan economy.:thumbs:

 

The OP is saying to buy Citgo, not stop buying Citgo. Their point is Citgo oil is not from the middle east.

 

Only a fraction of the oil consumed in the U.S. comes from the Middle East.

CITGO is a fully owned subsidiary of the Venezuelan national oil company. I will not buy CITGO gasoline as I have no desire to line the pockets of Mr. Chavez, regardless of how low CITGO prices its gasoline.

 

Huh? The federal and state governments gets the tax - and these are almost exclusively controlled by Republicans and Democrats.

 

Likewise! Upon finding out that Citgo was owned by Venezuela, and hence "controlled" by the Dictator of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez as his own little personal toy and his penchant for and love of Castro and hatred for the USA, I made up my mind that I would never buy another drop of any Citgo products while that situation existed. I recently went across the street, so to speak, and paid a $.15 a gallon premium to fill up an SUV that was riding on E.

I don't get heavily into the boycotts thing, per se, but I refuse to buy anything from certain countries, if possible, including anything made in Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and such as that. While the "Iron Curtain" stood, I bought nothing from any "Communist country", if possible or if I knew it, including not buying any farm machinery made in any, even though some were very good products and priced very well. No matter, I ain't buying them.
And I will not intentionally buy anything if possible from any other dictatorship, either. That's just the way it is. The one exception I make and that mostly not by choice, is China, which makes so much, sometimes one gets something made there without being aware of it, as a component of something else.

Back to Citgo. If it were entirely up to me, these days I prefer to sit and NOT go!, rather than Citgo!

Ed

 

How and why has Venezulea become an "enemy"? We were on good terms with our fifth largest petroleum supplier during the previous administration. Is our current president totally inept at foreign relations?

Far from being a "dictator", Chavez is a popular, democratically elected leader. What pretext will the neocons find for ousting him?

 

It's OK , Daisy.

Keep your eyes shut. It'll all be better some day.

 

I stopped buying citgo a couple months ago... not because of this, but because of the poor service at the local station.....

Imagine not accepting any debit cards unless the purchase was over $10!
So I went down the road to BP

 

It's not ok, carpro. The Bush administration seems to be going out of its was to provoke an international incident.

When you don't have an answer, change the subject by making condescending inane remarks.

This president is the very worst at foreign relations. How and why has Venezulea become an "enemy"?

 

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Imagine not accepting any debit cards unless the purchase was over $10!
So I went down the road to BP
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I don't fault them, to be honest, and it should include credit cards.........they both cost the business money to accept credit and debit cards...The individual servers don't make that much on each gallon/ltr of petrol.

Cheers,

Jim

 

Two years under Chavez our own government was lead by socialists. Good terms would have been expected.

Chavez will remain in favor in Venezuela if he keeps the promises he made to his constituency. If he cannot, the electorate will swing the other way.

As for any "pretext", Chavez has spewed the same socialistic, Bush inspired hated we read right here. Not conducive to building bridges or reaching compromise from either direction.

In fact, IMHO, international politics, like America's, has moved from idealogy to personal, individual hatred. Instead of looking to principles, there's a greater movement toward "Anybody but..." and you can substitute for those three periods: Bush, Clinton (Bill or Hillary), etc.

 

Why don't you ask the red suited Hugo?

I'm sure , in your liberal mind, that whatever the cause, it's totally our fault or Bush's.

 

Interesting...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060927/ts_nm/energy7_eleven_gasoline_dc

 

Good for 7-Eleven. May other Americans follow suit. :thumbs:

 

Chavez has cozied up to his pal, the Communist Fidel Castro. The Venezuelan economy is going down the drain. I hope that the Venezuelans can save their country from Chavez.