Thousands in Mass. to get cheaper oil - Delahunt, Chávez broker deal (it might as well be Castro)

Boston Globe ^ | November 20, 2005 | Michael Levenson and Susan Milligan

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A subsidiary of the Venezuelan national oil company will ship 12 million gallons of discounted home-heating oil to local charities and 45,000 low-income families in Massachusetts next month under a deal arranged by US Representative William D. Delahunt, a local nonprofit energy corporation, and Venezuela's president, White House critic Hugo Chávez.

The approximately $9 million deal will bring nine million gallons of oil to families and three million gallons to institutions that serve the poor, such as homeless shelters, said officials from Citizens Energy Corp., which is signing the contract. Families would pay about $276 for a 200-gallon shipment, a savings of about $184 and enough to last about three weeks.

The contract is to be signed Tuesday by officials from Citizens Energy, based in Boston, and CITGO, a Houston-based subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela SA. The contract was arranged after months of talks between Delahunt, a Quincy Democrat active in Latin American affairs, and Chávez, a leftist former paratrooper and fierce critic of the Bush administration.

''We recognized that we had an opportunity," Delahunt's spokesman, Steve Schwadron, said yesterday.

Chávez showed ''an inclination to do a humanitarian distribution" of oil, and poor families in Massachusetts had a ''desperate need" for relief from high home-heating prices, Schwadron said. He characterized the deal as one between ''a US company and two nonprofits to help them do more of what they already do, with terms that mean the price is good."

Delahunt was not available for comment yesterday.

Schwadron said the congressman did not get involved in the details of the contract, but had raised the issue with Chávez and helped connect the nonprofits with CITGO, which is owned by PDV America Inc., an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela SA, the national oil company of Venezuela.

[acapesket]

Delahunt..another student of Joe Moakley's! Ole Joe would lick Castro's boots from Havana to Southie if only he hadn't been gracefully "interred". Dlahunt and Mc Govern have been his rumpswabs ever since! Quite sure the Swimmah is runnin' the whole show!

[acapesket]

You have to speak Spanish to live here! Welfare state!!
White flight is outta control, pretty soon we won't have any more taxpayers to support all of the illegals sucking us dry. Socialism run amok!

[acapesket]

Is Dave Wedge a friend of yours? See his articles!
The Herald is a tabloid Glob in disguise!

[Allosaurs_r_us]

Apparently it doesn't bother the Rs either.

 

I'd say there is quite a bit of difference when the Rat that set up the deal considers Chavez a close personal friend and the Swimmer Kennedy pats him on the back for it.

 

Oh, and by the way, you don't know me well enough to consider yourself my friend, and from your rhetoric I doubt you will ever fill that bill. So go play on the freeway and BS sonebody else who thinks you're some kind of intellectual giant. Chances are youi will a whole bunch at the Daily Kos or DU.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

This is coming to a head.

[dennisw]

Check this one out for posting!!!

Castro's Medical Mercenaries
http://www.forbes.com/business/global/2005/1114/126A.html

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thanks for the LINK. I'll check it out.

[Kenny Bunk]

a local nonprofit energy corporation

Gee, I wonder who runs that. Nifty way for Chavez to get some money to Ted, and the rest of those Kennedy miscreants.

[Kenny Bunk]

home heating oil is higher than the more highly refined and heavily taxed gasoline

This is a great and continuing mystery, although the low sulfur standard now required in diesel and home heating oil (essentially the same product) has driven the cost up.

There is no supply shortage. There is a shortage of refinery capacity. The Maine Coast would be an excellent place to put a huge new refinery. The Gulf of Maine would be a wonderful place to look for oil.

In re: pinched soul polemics and hyperbole you've demonstrated here which will drive people to vote for the democrats in the midterm elections!

The failure of the Bushes, both oil men, to formulate a sane energy policy will be the biggest dent in their "legacies." Very disappointing leadership on that issue. You're right about the election, too. My biggest fear is that George II will follow in his father's footsteps, and wimp out at the very moment soundly based Republican policies are most needed.

[Kenny Bunk]

So who is getting the just over 80% mark-up? IF this was really to "help the poor folks", then why such a high mark-up?

The Kennedy Trust spun off a not-for-profit oil deal "to help the poor." It has proven a wonderful place to stash the Kennedy relativeswho have history of milking 501C-3s for astronomical salaries,expenses, and write-offs.

Nothing more profitable than a not-for-profit run by a crook.

[Kenny Bunk]

pingobono