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(Ex-Congressman Joe) Kennedy defends Venezuelan heat oil program
Eyewitness News TV ^ | 02-18-2006 | Eyewitness News

Posted on 02/18/2006 12:45:16 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

WASHINGTON—Former Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy fires back at the House Energy chairman investigating whether politics, not charity, is behind Venezuela’s offer to provide low-cost heating oil to needy Americans.

In a letter to Congressman Joe Barton, Kennedy says the committee’s highest priority should be praising Venezuela, not investigating its motives.

Kennedy heads the Boston-based nonprofit Citizens Energy Corporation, which is helping to deliver the oil in several states. Rhode Island is among states where low income people are getting discounted oil.

Barton has requested all records pertaining to the program from Citgo Petroleum, a subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: 109th; energy; joekennedy; oil
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Inexpensive oil seems like it would be bad for the environment, Joe.


21 posted on 02/18/2006 1:53:53 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: HostileTerritory

My electric bills went from an average of $155 dollars a month to $215 in ONE MONTH...

Maybe I should get my Congresscritters to make a deal with Chavez also??

I think that Bush sent a message to Chavez in his SOTU address when he said that Americans are "addicted to oil"...and it was a message that he doesn't want to play games with Chavez anymore...and he will try other fixes.

BTW..how do you guys in the northeast feel about nuclear energy?

I also think you guys should get onto Kennedy and Kerry for not letting the wind farms be built where it would "ruin their view" of the ocean.


22 posted on 02/18/2006 2:02:21 PM PST by Txsleuth
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

for a nice detailing of the Oil Barons of The Kennedy Family,
find a copy of "Do As I Say (Not As I Do)" by Peter Schweizer.

Read pages 89-92
(ISBN 0-385-51349-6; Hardcover, 2005)


23 posted on 02/18/2006 2:06:46 PM PST by VOA
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Why is it my respon$ibility to help pay someone else's heating bill? I don't get help paying my A/C bill during the summer!

People who choose to live in a cold climate should pay their own heating bills. This should not be a job for the federal government.
24 posted on 02/18/2006 2:07:04 PM PST by rottndog (WOOF!!!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Democrats never met a marxist dictator they didn't like.


25 posted on 02/18/2006 2:07:30 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (Americans need to remember Osama's "strong horse" -"weak horse" analogy. Let's stop acting weak.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Ah yes, the former Congressman once named Spy Magazine's dumbest member of Concrete after boasting that he had never read an entire book.

Of course Chavez is doing this for political, not charitable reasons. Chavez' policies are, of course, having their inevitable effect on his country. The oil fields are not being maintained, production is dropping. The situation is so bad that oil is being withheld from the average Venezuelan and the commie government is pushing people to use natural gas rather than gasoline to power their vehicles.
26 posted on 02/23/2006 7:41:32 AM PST by mak5
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To: mak5

Of course, after I call him dumb, I fail to notice that the spell checker changed "Congress" to "Concrete" in my post.


27 posted on 02/23/2006 7:43:41 AM PST by mak5
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Seen this propaganda yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNE0os3f3VY


28 posted on 12/03/2006 4:03:48 PM PST by Disturbin (Get back to work -- millions of people on welfare are counting on you!)
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To: mak5

"Chavez' policies are, of course, having their inevitable effect on his country."

It required him to bring in scores of illegals to sway the election. But funny we didn't hear that from our friends at CNN .....


29 posted on 12/03/2006 4:05:38 PM PST by Disturbin (Get back to work -- millions of people on welfare are counting on you!)
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