BE AMERICAN, BOYCOTT CITGO

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

[MadIvan]

The strange thing is, we can make a start. Here is a realistic way of doing this -

1. End the insane bias against diesel. We do this through taxation in both Britain and America. We should be changing the incentives around; this is a gateway technology and will save us fuel, thus depressing demand and prices.

2. Work on bio-diesel. Petro-diesel cars can run bio-diesel. Bio-diesel can be made from ordinary rubbish.

3. Build nuclear power plants. Natural gas and oil driven plants should be an absolute no.

With these three steps, we can start hitting the blighters where it hurts, right in the wallet.

Regards, Ivan

[EBH]

The one on my corner has a sign up that says,

American Owned
American Operated
Last one.

[shortstop]

Check out today's "Day by Day" comic strip. Very appropriate: http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/

[montag813]

Savage has been urging this as well. A caller said CITGO is on to these calls for boycoot and are changing the names of many stations to "PETRO EXPRESS". Can anyone else confirm this? If so we need to add PetroExpress to our boycott list.

[massgopguy]

Call the Boston Landmarks Commission and tell them to shut of the CITGO sign by Fenway Park. It has been done before, during the "energy crisis" of the 70's

617-635-3850

[pugmama]

..."Get off oil and watch their economic lever shrivel"

I have been saying this for years.
It is just so clear. I continue to be mystified as to why we haven't been working actively to do this.

[nascarnation]

Here's the DUmmy view (barf alert):

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 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.

[buck61]

I think a few months ago someone posted on FR that Chavez
notified all Citgo station owners beginning next yr. he would no longer be selling oil to America.
Would anyone know if this is true?

[Dysart]

A ChavezGO station lies than a quarter mile from my house and I've never patronized the station for obvious reasons, and I don't intend to change my disloyalty at this juncture.

[Fiddlstix]

I quit buying at Citgo quite a while back.

[LZ_Bayonet]

An economist specializing in this area told me that, unfortunately, if there was a massive boycott against CITGO, it would only help them.

ExxonMobil, Shell and the rest would deplete their supply because of the increased business. To keep up with this newfound demand, they would have to buy from CITGO at an inflated rate.

If that were true: 1 - Why did Venezuela buy the chain in the first place? 2 - Why wouldn't Venezuela just sell, or shut down, their Citgo stations?

[litehaus]

"Who is responsible for making this thug a hero?"

---

The Un-tied Nations?

[Veggie Todd]

I heard on Savage last night that they're changing the names of the gas stations to Petro Express or something like that.

[Solamente]

Erra, Teddy Kennedy got campaign dough from Occidental:

http://www.opensecrets.org/1996os/detail/S6MA00015.htm

[Hornet19]

Oil is a fungible commodity. Venezuela has already realized monetary gains from the sale of it's oil on the world market long before it gets refined into the gasoline sold at Citgo.
Therefore, boycotting gasoline at Citgo stations would have no monetary effect on Venezuela.

Having said that, however, boycotting the goods sold at Citgo stations would have some monetary impact.

[Shimmer128]

Yeah, i doubt that. It may be true, but I doubt it.

[Neoliberalnot]

The crowd in NY were not UN members. I don't dispute that UN 3rd world dictators and commies support him, but we are talking about a crowd in NY.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[reegs]

My question about their homepage: what nationality is that kid??? I don't want to sound Xenophobic, but what ever happened to the apple-cheeked, freckle-faced, all-American boy???

[NC28203]

>>>I heard on Savage last night that they're changing the names of the gas stations to Petro Express or something like that.

CITGO is pulling out of the Midwest, so that may be why gas stations are changing names. They are not refining enough gasoline to supply all of the stations throughout the US, so they have been forced to purchase gasoline from other refiners to supply stations in the Midwest. Rather than pay that cost, they are choosing to stop supplying.