Posted on 09/21/2006 6:12:02 AM PDT by shortstop
Hugo Chavez insulted our president.
Hugo Chavez insulted our country.
Hugo Chavez insulted our military.
Hugo Chavez insulted our history.
He said we are a curse on the planet and that we endanger the very survival of humankind. He said that the countries of the world must unite against us.
He hates the United States and everything about us.
Except our money, of course. Our money makes him rich. And it gives him the power to spread anti-American hatred around the globe. His entire regime is built on American money.
So I think we should stop giving it to him.
I think it has become the patriotic duty of all Americans to avoid sending another dime into Hugo Chavez’s particular Third World hellhole. He has called us his enemy. That makes him our enemy.
And we don’t do business with our enemies.
We boycott them.
Remember this word: Citgo. That’s the brand of gasoline you will never buy again. That’s the brand of gasoline you will talk your friends into never buying again.
Because Citgo equals Chavez and Chavez equals hatred of America. And it’s time for real Americans to stop buying Citgo.
Here’s the background.
Hugo Chavez is the dictator of Venezuela. Venezuela would be just another crap-in-a-hole banana farm if it weren’t for oil. Oil that is brought to the American market by the Venezuelan government – through its subsidiary, Citgo gasoline.
The predecessor to Citgo was started in America by an American in 1910. It took the name Citgo in 1965, and was bought by Occidental Petroleum in 1982. Occidental was a company most noted for its ties to the Soviet Union and Al Gore’s dad. Occidental turned around the next year and sold Citgo to the company that owns the 7-11 convenience stores.
So far, so good.
But it turned dirty in 1986 when the convenience store company sold half of Citgo to something called Petroleos de Venezuela. In 1990, Petroleos de Venezuela bought the other half and owned Citgo lock, stock and barrel.
What is Petroleos de Venezuela? It is the Venezuelan government. It is not a private company, it is a nationalized industry, much like the industries of Cuba, the Soviet Union and other communist countries.
So Citgo is Petroleos de Venezuela, and Petroleos de Venezuela is Venezuela, and Venezuela is Hugo Chavez, and Hugo Chavez is our enemy.
Therefore Citgo is our enemy.
And every dollar you spend on Citgo gasoline is a dollar that cuts America’s throat. I’m not saying that, Hugo Chavez is saying that. At the United Nations and at the conference of unaligned nations, Hugo Chavez said Venezuela would support and lead those nations that wanted to rise up against the United States.
That means he’s going to bankroll the people who hate you and your country.
Or rather, that means he’s going to use your gas money to bankroll the people who hate you and your country.
If you keep buying Citgo gasoline.
So let’s draw the line. Let the Citgo boycott begin now. And let it end when Hugo Chavez is rotting in hell.
Anything less is first cousin to treason.
Some will complain that Americans distribute Citgo gasoline and will be hurt by a boycott. Others will say that Americans own and are employed by the convenience stores and gas stations that sell Citgo gasoline and that they also will be hurt by a boycott.
Tough luck.
I know many fine people who make their living from Citgo gasoline, and I will be sorry if this boycott hurts them. But I owe my country first, and must be loyal to it before I am loyal to my friends. There are other brands of gasoline, and I will gladly go back to familiar convenience stores and gas stations when they begin carrying a brand of gasoline that doesn’t enrich a regime that threatens the safety and freedom of my children.
This isn’t a Republican issue or a Democratic issue, this is an American issue. Hugo Chavez has gotten up and told us what he thinks of us. He has told us by his words and deeds that he hates us and that he wants to tear us down.
He is our enemy. And I will not give aid and comfort to the enemy.
I will not buy Citgo gasoline.
And you must not either.
Together we must tell as many people as we can. We must use the power of free speech and the power of the free market to kick this little tyrant where it counts.
We must change our habits if we are accustomed to buying Citgo gasoline. We must find new service stations and convenience stores. We must change our ways.
Or this man is going to bury us with our own money. He is going to use the wealth we give him to buy the knife that slits our throats and destroys our country.
Be an American, boycott Citgo.
You would be more effective just buying less gas...
I already do, and now I'll pass the idea along.
Every tinhorn punk turdworld dictator needs a hate focus to keep himself in power. I heard on the radio this morning that he received a standing ovation during a talk he gave in NY. go figure. Who is responsible for making this thug a hero to be worshipped at the expense of our own President??
Citgo-to-hell
Haven't had a drop of that stuff in my cars since the 70's, we used to get water in the fuel and it was a nightmare.
I avoid Citgo whenever possible. 7-11 stores, too...they're partners.
Cool. What did they say?
Did they call you an "capitalist war-monger" and then hang up on you?
Absolutely!
No Go Citgo!!! No Go Citgo!!! No Go Citgo!!! No Go Citgo!!!
Then Chavez say Bush is the Devil, but we Americans need to 'tone down the retoric'.
Man this stuff would be funny if it weren't so dangerous.
BOYCOTT HESS TOO. Huggy owns a huge chunk of large Hess refinery in St Croix.
I think you missed the purpose of the post.
God, in His infinite wisdom, bestowed oil on a lot of the worst nations in the world - Iran, Venezeula, Saudi Arabia, etc.
The answer is to get off oil and watch their economic lever shrivel into impotence.
And laugh while doing so.
Regards, Ivan
Already have been doing so.
CHECK OUT THIS:
http://www.citgo.com/Home.jsp
What a joke!
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