Posted on 03/07/2013 10:18:39 AM PST by llevrok
If you drove by CITGO’s corporate headquarters yesterday you would have seen what many consider a disturbing sight.
Many Houstonians are up in arms after driving by CITGO's Eldridge Parkway headquarters and noticing the U.S., Texas and Venezuelan flags being flown at half staff, and you let your feeling show on Matt Patrick's afternoon show.
“I gave them a call, and the operator told me that it was in observance and respect of the death of Hugo Chavez,” Teddy told Matt Patrick on his afternoon show on The 9-5-0 yesterday.
Teddy wasn’t satisfied with the company’s explanation.
“I told the person that answered the phone that if she had a problem with raising the flag back up that I could come down and do it for her,” he said.
And it wasn't just at the corporate headquarters. Flags were at half staff at a refinery in Corpus Christi as well.
A caller named ‘Doc’ told Patrick, “I called their facilities manager and led a march of about 800 patriots from one of my Facebook pages.”
Doc also said he would head down to the corporate headquarters and take matters into his own hands if necessary.
“I’m ready to go down there. Eldridge isn’t far from my house. I’ll either remove the flag or I will put it at full mast,” he stated.
CITGO, a Venezuelan owned company, released a statement explaining why the flags were lowered, confirming it was to honor Chavez, who died on Tuesday from cancer.
The flag may only be lowered for the death of foreign dignitaries if indicated in Presidential instructions.
The NAS Jacksonville gas station took down its CITGO sign several years ago. I don’t know if they still buy their gas FRom CITGO, but I haven’t bought gas there since Chavez stole Venezuela.
I haven’t been anywhere near a CITGO station since then, come to think of it, and I get a large grin when I see a closed CITGO station.
I’ve avoided Citgo since Chavez showed up on the world stage but I wonder if he was really any worse than the arab states that provide so much of the other gasoline.
CITGO pulled a name change to try and hide the fact they are owned by a Marxist. Their retail centers were are under the Valero name. Don’t be fooled, same anti-American crew there.
I have a love hate relationship with that sign. It has been around so long it has become a part of the area. I hate what it stands for, but would miss it if removed.
I know of several that closed in my area. The ones that remain open are in small towns as the only station.
The 7-Elevens in mt state switched from Citgo to another brand after Chavez’ “sulfur” remark.
I thought most people got wise to CitGo way back in the early Bush years. Most of them only managed to survive because of their convenience stores, but we caused enough business impact in our area to force one to sell out the petro vendorship to ARCO.
That's true! CITGO = Valero
I'll bet the city inspector of signs would find them to be half rusted thru and need to be taken as a hazardous condition now exists.
Simple, boycott forever.
Support 7 Eleven
7-Eleven Drops Citgo as Gas Supplier
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/9/27/133204.shtml
I wonder...
...how many paintballs would it take...
Is Citgo the same company as Gitgo? The supermarket chain, Giant Eagle, gives a discount available at Gitgo stations here in Ohio. I think it’s 10 cents a gallon for every $50 spent at the store.
Valero is a Texas company. They are in no way affiliated with Citgo or Venezuela.
That is false.
Valero is a Texas company. They are in no way affiliated with Citgo or Venezuela.
Citgo may have sold some local retail station to Valero, but they are not tied to Citgo.
Did a search. It’s Getgo, not Gitgo. Giant Eagle bought some Shell stations, so no connection to Sluggo.
I have purchased about 5 gallons of Citgo gas in the past many years. I refuse to buy from them except when I get in trouble on tank levels - the station I planned to use had a power failure, my tank was almost empty, and Citgo had power. Otherwise, no thank you. If
“CITGO = Valero”
That’s not true. Valero bought some Citgo properties a while back and rebranded them to their own name, but they are by no means the same company.
Valero (NYSE ticker VLO) is a US refiner/gas station operator headquartered in San Antonio, Texas
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