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Citizens Energy accepts $25m of oil from Venezuela(Joe Kennedy)
Boston Globe ^ | December 11, 2007 | Peter J. Howe

Posted on 12/11/2007 6:29:34 AM PST by GQuagmire

...."Our government gets their panties in a knot much more than most Americans do about Hugo Chávez," said Kennedy, founder of Citizens Energy, seeking to defuse possible criticism about taking $25 million of heating oil from Venezuela's state-controlled petroleum monopoly. No other oil company Kennedy solicited was willing to make the donation, he said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chavez; energy; joekennedy; oil
Nitwit Kennedy Alert(an oxymoron)
1 posted on 12/11/2007 6:29:36 AM PST by GQuagmire
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To: GQuagmire
useful idiot alert...
2 posted on 12/11/2007 6:31:47 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: GQuagmire

Commies buy love, Dimwits pay for it with your money.


3 posted on 12/11/2007 6:32:11 AM PST by xcamel (FDT/2008)
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To: GQuagmire

A good example of how too many drugs can addle the brain.


4 posted on 12/11/2007 6:34:08 AM PST by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: GQuagmire

Kennedy’s raking in around 200 large a year for that gig.


5 posted on 12/11/2007 6:35:39 AM PST by AU72
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To: GQuagmire

Disgusting. Any US company who accepts this sort of aid should have its business license revoked. Any US citizen or resident who accepts this sort of aid should be forever banned from getting any assistance that is financed by the US taxpayer. Let them get their welfare checks mailed to them from Caracas.


6 posted on 12/11/2007 6:36:14 AM PST by pnh102
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To: AU72

Kennedy is not nitwit..he is getting richer off the poor with the help of Chavez. He is bought and paid for.
This is how Chavez is buying influence with the DemocRats.


7 posted on 12/11/2007 6:37:29 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: AU72

Kennedy is not nitwit..he is getting richer off the poor with the help of Chavez. He is bought and paid for.
This is how Chavez is buying influence with the DemocRats.


8 posted on 12/11/2007 6:39:15 AM PST by Oldexpat
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To: GQuagmire
"I know there's a lot of controversy about the fact that this oil ultimately comes from Citgo, from Venezuela and, yes, from Hugo Chávez. I'll never be in the tank to Hugo Chávez, but I'll tell you I wish we had a little more leadership in this country that has a concern for the poor and the disenfranchised as we do in other parts of the world," said Kennedy

Freakin' idiot trust-fund baby ought to be ashamed, paying himself a half-million dollars a year out of his "charity," going hat in hand to a dictator who is his country's enemy, but these people have no shame. Contrary to what he says, he is sitting snugly in Hugito's pocket. Por que no te callas, Kennedy?

9 posted on 12/11/2007 6:49:51 AM PST by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: GQuagmire

Take the 25 million and then shoot him


10 posted on 12/11/2007 6:52:57 AM PST by wildcatf4f3 (" In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompe)
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To: pnh102

Meanwhile the Kennedys stop every attempt at improved energy by internal sources, and every attempt at alternative energy.

Can’t let those windmills in the bay, when they are making $$$$$ from Chavez.


11 posted on 12/11/2007 6:53:48 AM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: GQuagmire
Also this nugget: US Representative William Delahunt, a Quincy Democrat, said...he planned to soon convene other members of Congress to travel to state-owned oil companies in Kuwait, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia asking them to make similar donations to help poor Americans pay heating bills.

I can just imagine what the Mexicans are going to say!

12 posted on 12/11/2007 6:56:59 AM PST by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: AU72

I think Kennedy earns more than $300k running that charity.


13 posted on 12/11/2007 6:59:53 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: GQuagmire

Is this that heavy sulpheric crude Venezuela is noted for, and if so does the $25 mil. cover the refining costs to make it useable? If not, who is paying the refining costs. Citgo has one or two refineries capable of refining that crud, and what about the transportation. Just curious.


14 posted on 12/11/2007 7:01:09 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: GQuagmire
“I’ll never be in the tank to Hugo Chávez, but I’ll tell you I wish we had a little more leadership in this country that has a concern for the poor and the disenfranchised as we do in other parts of the world,” said Kennedy

The tank? I don’t know what that is, but one thing is for sure, Kennedy has his head stuck so far up Hugo’s butt you can see the top of his head when Hugo opens his mouth.

15 posted on 12/11/2007 7:07:18 AM PST by monday
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To: GQuagmire

We might be at a threshold of radically better energy conservation that would dramatically reduce our use of fuel oil. Because of an invention made in 1931.

That invention is called aerogel, sometimes called frozen smoke. It is perhaps the lightest known solid, weighing only three times as much as air, and is an amazingly effective insulator.

But it had problems. First was that it was terribly expensive to manufacture, and second was that it was brittle. However, in 2000, a much less expensive and flexible aerogel was invented.

A blanket of this material a few millimeters thick can insulate from -130F degrees to over 2,000F. NASA is using it to insulate spacesuits and satellites.

Recently, aerogel was used to insulate clothing, and proved even in extraordinary cold to be too efficient. People in Antarctic cold would be hot and sweating inside just a thin jumpsuit lined with aerogel.

Imagine if it was incorporated into home insulation?


16 posted on 12/11/2007 7:23:19 AM PST by Popocatapetl
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To: GQuagmire
"Our government gets their panties in a knot much more than most Americans do about Hugo Chávez," said Kennedy, founder of Citizens Energy..."

Why do these elitist jackasses always think they can speak for us? That boy has a case of "do you have a mouse in your pocket?"

17 posted on 12/11/2007 7:55:02 AM PST by avacado
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To: GQuagmire

Maybe if we contact Iran and beg sincerely they’ll donate some oil also.


18 posted on 12/11/2007 10:57:16 AM PST by Joan Kerrey (Believe nothing of what you hear or read and half of what you see.)
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