Boycott Citgo
Posted on September 22, 2006
Like Captain Ed, I too was unaware that Citgo is wholly owned by Venezuela’s state-owned PDVSA. And after his little sulfer smelling tirade at the U.N. calling our president the devil, I think Mark Tapscott’s advice to buy our gas elsewhere is something I can get behind. Besides, my wife has already made the decision for me.
Lots of folks are getting on board with this. The Man over at GOP and the City came up with the photo above and is leading the way in the effort. He is putting together a list of blogs that are on board. Here’s what he’s got to say and I completely agree.
Hugo Chavez had the gall to insult America while he was still on American soil (yes, the UN is still in the heart of New York). Let’s stop handing over our money to this chunky dictator. Don’t buy gas from Citgo, ever. Even if it means paying $0.01 more across the street.
Ms. Underestimated came up with this logo. Texas Fred is also all over this. He has started a blog Boycott Citgo and looking for folks to add their blog to his blogroll in support and solidarity with the cause. Well, we’re on board with all of it. I didn’t really ever buy from Citgo anyway. I’m not sure who supplies the gas at a Turkey Hill, but if it is Hugo then I will go down the road just a few more miles.
Also see: Wizbang
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Nice to see others finally taking notice of this. I was all over this back in January and I haven’t bought at a Citgo gas station since.
And when you buy it anywhere else, you’re helping the rest of them.
Eh, he’s welcome to sound as stupid as he wants. When did we start losing sleep over the political equivalent of a shock-jock?
7-11 drops the Citgo brand. It is the beginning of the end for Citgo!
Support the boycott http://citgoboycott.org
Danno D, Actually 7/11 dropped it because their 20 year contract ran out. In one of its reports 7/11 stated that it would make no difference whether it marketed Citgo oil, or its own brand. So it chose the latter.
What some people here are missing is that the other oil companies buy their gas from Arab countries which use them to fund terrorism. The companies buy them indirectly from Iran, Saudi Arabia, and even Libya through distributors. Even officially, 4% of Libya’s oil goes to to the US. 3% of US oil comes from Colombia, the most bloody violator of human rights in Latin America. Saudi Arabia gives its profits to the “royal family” (eg Bin Laden).
Rachel Enrenfeld, author of “How Terrorism is Financed,” on Saudi Terrorism:
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200406010834.asp
This is far worse than a democratically elected Venezuelan president who criticizes the Bush administration over globalization. (Hardly unique for a world leader anyway)
The area I live in has the highest unemployment in the state. All the jobs are going to Mexico and Latin America because people are getting paid 1 an hour for a job that would pay a US worker 20$ an hour.
The first time I heard Venezuela criticized on the news, it was CNN saying Chavez spoke at an “anti-American” rally in Argentina. Then she cut over to a reporter actually at the protest. He said, no, the protest is not anti-American. They like the American people. This is an anti-globalization protest, and the people are protesting the system that gives them horrible working conditions. Van Sustren, the CNN moderator replied, “Anti-globalist, Anti-American, whatever,” totally ignoring the fact that the reporter said they were not anti-American!
The corporations who move to Venezuela don’t like it now that the government is regulating them to make them pay decent wages. And if Latin American countries paid people decent wages, Mexicans would not be pouring across the border, and jobs would not be pouring out of America. And Chavez’s main disagreement with Bush is over globalization.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=4601
In fact, since corporations are the main supporters of illegal immigration, Bush seems to actually be helping it:
“According to CRS, worksite arrests fell from 17,552 in 1997 to 445 in 2003. Fines collected from companies illegally hiring undocumented aliens declined from almost $3.7 million in 1999 to $62,000 in 2005. Finally, according to government statistics, between 1999 and 2003, work-site enforcement operations by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and its successor agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, were scaled back by 95 percent.”
If Chavez has a conflict with Bush and the corporate news about globaliztion, that’s fine- our country would be better off without it.
Don’t fund terrorism, buy Citgo Oil.
Yes I agree with boycot Citgo
I like the logo, is it available to purchase
I think we should stick it on the back of our car
I stop buying gas from this lunitic but I can see the CITGO station is as busy as the other one