Posted on 11/20/2005 5:31:04 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
And whose senator committed treason back in the late sixties and early seventies?
Whose senator left a woman to drown?
Whose senator was a communist who took the fifth at a senate hearing?
"Hmmm, sounds like you favor big government to regulate prices. That's certainly not a conservative issue."
No, I remember very well what price controls on gasoline did the last time we tried that. What is hapening at the reatil level isn't the problem, or at least it isn't the root of the problem. The problem really lies in the unregulated trading of petroleum as a commodity, which, as we have seen, is a prescription for boom and bust.
"Your screed belongs over on DU."
LOL! Trust me on this one; they'd reall get angry with me! Off to church!
The State Department and the President need to read this Congressman the riot act. Foreign relations are the sole province of the executive branch, not a Congress person on behalf of a specific state.
Did the reporter actually put the word Kennedy anywhere in the article? I did not see it, and submit my observation as yet another example of how "MSM" deletes information that would be "not in the best interests" of their readers. We know that Citizens Energy is Robert Kennedy's pet project, but how many casual readers know it.
In common language: CENSORSHIP
This is typical of a left-wing dictator. Harm your country and your people just for propaganda purposes.
The oil belongs to the people of Venezeula and they should get the right value for it. Why should rich people from Boston be subsidized by the poor people in Venezeula?
And it is typical of the American left. Play right into the hands of the propaganda machine of a left-wing dictator without having any clue whatsoever what harm they are really doing.
OMG-Did you even read the article?
"When the discounted oil arrives early next month, Citizens Energy -- whose chairman and president, former US representative Joseph P. Kennedy II, also helped arrange the contract -- will screen recipients with the help of local organizations that serve the poor. Some 350 local dealers will then distribute three-fourths of the oil to local families."
"Kennedy said he was not concerned about Chávez's politics.
''You start parsing which countries' politics we're going to feel comfortable with, and only buying oil from them, then there are going to be a lot of people not driving their cars and not staying warm this winter," Kennedy said. ''There are a lot of countries that have much worse records than Venezuela. At the end of the day it's not our business to go choosing other peoples' leaders, particularly when they are duly-elected democratic leaders."
Kennedy said Delahunt has been working with Chávez ''for years now and has gone down there many times and developed a personal relationship with him.""
I read the 7 graphs that were posted here. No, I did not clik on Boston.com and have no intention of doing so.
So consider my remarks about censorship to include the first 7 paragraphs only.
> Why do we buy gas from CITGO?
> Buy American.
That nice to say, and it would be nice to boycott Mideast oil too, but I'm afraid I swallow my patriotic pride and buy the cheapest.
Nice spin- There are no cuts to LIHEAP-quit calling an increase a cut. Perhaps the increase is not what LIHEAP wanted, but it is not a cut.
Don't mislead people
No problem- Kennedy wasn't mentioned until later in the article.
> Did the reporter actually put the word Kennedy anywhere in the article?...We know that Citizens Energy is Robert Kennedy's pet project, but how many casual readers know it.
Citizens Energy is Joseph P. Kennedy II's non-profit vehicle. In Boston at least even non-readers know this because he reminds us constantly of it. It's true that the Globe has minimized the Kennedy family's involvement in an oil deal with an honest to God enemy of America, but the real news is that Rep. Delahunt is a pal of Hugo Chavez.
"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."
Get a few years under your belt and you'll understand economics and socialism a wee bit better. If you're already seasoned, you're a crack-pot.
From another part of the article:
***.....MassEnergyConsumer Alliance, a nonprofit group that also offers discounted oil, will distribute or sell the remaining quarter to homeless shelters, food banks, and low-income housing groups, said Larry Chretien, the group's executive director. Recipients must apply for the help, he said....***
Given that you started this rant with the words "The fact" it would be nice to see at least one fact in it.
I'm sure you can name someone who die because they couldn't afford to heat their home?
Other than miserable druggies who spent their $ on getting their next fix.
Just wait until some anti-chavez bill comes up in congress- Kennedy will support it.
On second thought you get partial credit for noting the existance of stupid government regulation...but only partial, since the context of the comment would seem to imply that such regulation (not allowing ANWR exploration, preventing new refineries, reformulated fuels mandate, etc.) exists at the behest of the oil industry (whose pockets you seem to believe the entire US government is in), which is really dumb...
A dictator subsidizes a product at the expense of the really poor(the people of Venezuela) in order to buy political goodwill from people who are, on average, far better off (the people of Mass.).
No wonder Kennedy goes for it...it is indistinguishable from standard Democratic party politics.
I abhor Senator Kennedy, but without a doubt, the treason of North Carolina killed far more Americans than Sen. Tipsy ever did.
1.I'm actually not 'from' North Carolina. I live here.
2. The question is a bit ambiguous, like "Which is smaller, a penny or a dime?" I need a little clarification.
a. Are you asking about current events or history?
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