Boycott Targets CITGO [Hugo Chavez's Oil Company]

Palantine Countryside ^ | 4/27/2006 | Tom Johnson

[ex-Texan]

Chavez has rankled most U.S. conservatives. He certainly is a thorn in the side of President Bush and causes concern by meddling in American politics. Most notably, when he decided to sell cheap heating oil to people living in the northeastern section of the country. But Chavez is a mercurial character. Last week he said he would prefer $ 50 oil rather $ 100 oil. At the same time, he was targeting big oil companies doing business in Venezuela. Hugo Chavez spells trouble for the U.S. because he is in the pocket of Fidel Castro and the DGI (Cuban Intelligence Service). With the price of oil set to move higher this summer, gasoline prices cause the White House more grief than Iraq. Read more reports? This looks to be a very unsettling year.

[daybreakcoming]

I'm all for boycotting the very air that Chavez breathes but I also have to remember there are Americans and their families who depend on their employment in US based CITGO refineries. Rock and a hard place.

[Mercat]

But are their bathrooms clean?

[ex-Texan]

I understand. My son lives in Upstate NY and explained that CITGO helped people he knows by selling cheap heating oil during the winter. Chavez is a puppet of Castro. Cuba will continue to be a problem for the U.S. as long a Castro continues to breathe. Unfortunately, Fidel is getting state of the art medical care including the most recent stem cell treatments and benefits of genetic research. Most of the Island is barely surviving while this murdering ego maniac lives like pampered royalty.

[HamiltonJay]

Well I can't even tell you the last time I was at a CITGO station... nice to know I haven't been supporting at least one communist. Now if I could find a way to stop supporting Islamofacists I'd be set.

[bereanway]

Unfortunately strategic natural resources around the world are increasingly controlled by madmen and it's not just in the ME. Not only is there Chavez, but Morales in Bolivia and very possibly Humala in Peru (depends on the upcoming runoff).

Most of North Africa, many of the former Soviet Republics are either controlled by the Muzzies or have growing populations of same. Couple this with insatiable demand from the east for energy and metals and things sure look dicey.

I don't know what to do with Chavez, but the guy sure is a thorn and he's actively exporting his leftist ways down there. Pat Robertson wasn't smart in saying what he did about Chavez but the guy will drive a dagger through our heart the moment he gets a chance.

[eastforker]

Have you ever noticed the citgo sign in the background of several FNC segments during interviews?

[wallcrawlr]

If the other stations receive extra business they'll have to grow to accommodate.

The jobs will transfer

I didnt know this about CITGO and I aint going there ever again.

[Thermalseeker]

My son lives in Upstate NY and explained that CITGO helped people he knows by selling cheap heating oil during the winter.

Chavez should donate gasline to the 'po folks in the upstate. 'Po folks need a vacation, too......

Give 'til it hurts, Hugo!

[Mister Da]

If you sleep with dogs, you get fleas.

If I was working for CITGO, I would find another job.

I vote with my dollars, too.

[mountainlyons]

So does anyone have a list of all foreign owned businesses and a list of the businesses that support illegal aliens? I need to add to my boycott list which is only denver now.

[concrete is my business]

Chin up Bucko.

Look north. :0)

Canada has got your back.

It is true the commies and socialists are a real problem for everybody and the falling of the Berlin Wall seems to have some blowback as all those commies and socialists can now get out and about, but I am thinking there may be fewer of them now than there was 40 years ago.

I hope their numbers are actually falling and that freedom will one day prevail.

Having said that, someone said "Chavez is just like Castro on crack" and we need to step up the pressure on them.

They think we are preoccupied elsewhere and they can take advantage.

I think they think wrong.

[wildbill]

Hasn't Chavez also threatened to cut off oil supplies to the US?

Seems to me that this boycott of Citgo would only be a little one-upsmanship in preparation for his threatened boycott.

[Liberty Valance]

I buy Valero. Refined in Texas by Texans.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Does Citgo only use the Citgo brand name? Or are there other names associated with this company?

[Juan Medén]

I have been holding my own private boycott for over a year now. Glad to know there are others out there.

Hugo keeps his own nation in abject poverty while sending discoutned heating oil to the richest nation on earth. Get a clue, Hugo!

[ex-Texan]

There is a wealth of material posted on this site. I do not have any information about companies employing illegal border jumpers. The INS and FBI ought to have that information posted on their web sites. Very disappointing that they do not publish that information. "But, why stir things up?," is their official position. The government wants our borders wide open. The government encourages companies to ship jobs overseas and more inexpensive goods from foreign nations. NAFTA, CAFTA and the WTO all are acting in concert to make America more dependent on unstable foreign countries. Those Mexicans working in Taco Bell are probably members of the violent revolutionary group the Zapatistas. Zapatistas are funded and armed by the Chi-Coms. But nobody in the government wants to listen. Nobody wants to hear about our open borders and national security issues? Amazing, isn't it? I though we were fighting a War on Terror.

When you have found a comprehensive list of companies supporting and employing illegal, please let me know.

[concrete is my business]

I know Canadians are a little tipsy at times but they are hardly "unstable" and Canadian goods and resources are not "inexpensive". Canadian/American trading has accrued many benefits for both the individual parties involved in the transactions and for both nations.

[JasonC]

Yes, you are anti-American sweetie. And it doesn't matter how many flags you put out, or how much lipstick you smear across the pig.

[daybreakcoming]

Whatever.
CITGO, Lake Charles was brought on line waaaay before Chavez could wipe his own butt. 1944. Major jet fuel producer since that day. CITGO bought Connoco out in 2002. Nearly 2000 AMERICANS work there with untold numbers in the service area. You want to screw them over because of a madman who is going to do/say whatever he wants regardless of a boycott - have at it. I won't do that to my fellow Americans because of something that happened beyond their control.