BE AMERICAN, BOYCOTT CITGO

boblonsberry.com ^ | 09/21/06 | Bob Lonsberry

[FJ290]

Be American, Boycott Citgo."

I buy American anyway. I have stock in Valero. Only place I buy gas. :-)

[Rte66]

Sure, Anna Nicole Smith needs that money more than Hugo and Pedevesa do!

[SoFloFreeper]

Almost every 7-11 down here has a CITGO sign and pumps right with it. I'm not sure about stand-alones.

[BIGZ]

GRASSY ASS

[rakovsky]

Shortstop,

"Valero obtains about one-fourth of its crude oil from domestic sellers. Internationally, it makes its biggest buys from Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Iraq."
http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16926425&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=474107&rfi=6

As you see, what some people here are missing is 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 distributors. Even officially, 4% of Libya's oil goes to to the US. 3% of US oil comes from Colombia, the most bloody violator of human rights in Latin America. Saudi Arabia gives its profits to the "royal family" (eg Bin Laden).

Rachel Enrenfeld, author of "How Terrorism is Financed," on Saudi Terrorism:
www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200406010834.asp

This is far worse than a democratically elected Venezuelan president who criticizes the Bush administration over globalization. (Hardly unique for a world leader anyway)

The area I live in has the highest unemployment in the state. All the jobs are going to Mexico and Latin America because people are getting paid 1 an hour for a job that would pay a US worker 20$ an hour.

The first time I heard Venezuela criticized on the news, it was CNN saying Chavez spoke at an "anti-American" rally in Argentina. Then she cut over to a reporter actually at the protest. He said, no, the protest is not anti-American. They like the American people. This is an anti-globalization protest, and the people are protesting the system that gives them horrible working conditions. Van Sustren, the CNN moderator replied, "Anti-globalist, Anti-American, whatever," totally ignoring the fact that the reporter said they were not anti-American!

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. And Chavez's main disagreement with Bush is over globalization.
www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=4601

In fact, since corporations are the main supporters of illegal immigration, Bush seems to actually be helping it:

"According to CRS, worksite arrests fell from 17,552 in 1997 to 445 in 2003. Fines collected from companies illegally hiring undocumented aliens declined from almost $3.7 million in 1999 to $62,000 in 2005. Finally, according to government statistics, between 1999 and 2003, work-site enforcement operations by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and its successor agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, were scaled back by 95 percent."

If Chavez has a conflict with Bush and the corporate news about globaliztion, that's fine- our country would be better off without it.

Don't fund terrorism, buy Citgo oil.