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.

when you buy gas at a Citgo station, you’re helping one of America’s most vocal enemies.

And when you buy it anywhere else, you’re helping the rest of them.

Hugo Chavez had the gall to insult America while he was still on American soil

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?

Check out the posts here, here and here and here about the boycott.
After Hugo Chavez’s comments about ’smelling sulfur’ and “Bush is the devil” this past weekend, it is amusing now to note that CITGO is Venezuala’s…