Post #208,249
5/23/05 2:40:02 PM
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Join the BUY-Cott.
Published on Monday, May 16, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!
by Jeff Cohen
Looking for an easy way to protest Bush foreign policy week after week? And an easy way to help alleviate global poverty? Buy your gasoline at Citgo stations.
And tell your friends.
Of the top oil producing countries in the world, only one is a democracy with a president who was elected on a platform of using his nation's oil revenue to benefit the poor. The country is Venezuela. The President is Hugo Chavez. Call him "the Anti-Bush."
Citgo is a U.S. refining and marketing firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company. Money you pay to Citgo goes primarily to Venezuela -- not Saudi Arabia or the Middle East. There are 14,000 Citgo gas stations in the US. (Click here [link|http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp|http://www.citgo.com.../StoreLocator.jsp] to find one near you.) By buying your gasoline at Citgo, you are contributing to the billions of dollars that Venezuela's democratic government is using to provide health care, literacy and education, and subsidized food for the majority of Venezuelans.
Instead of using government to help the rich and the corporate, as Bush does, Chavez is using the resources and oil revenue of his government to help the poor in Venezuela. A country with so much oil wealth shouldn't have 60 percent of its people living in poverty, earning less than $2 per day. With a mass movement behind him, Chavez is confronting poverty in Venezuela. That's why large majorities have consistently backed him in democratic elections. And why the Bush administration supported an attempted military coup in 2002 that sought to overthrow Chavez.
So this is the opposite of a boycott. Call it a BUYcott. Spread the word.
Of course, if you can take mass transit or bike or walk to your job, you should do so. And we should all work for political changes that move our country toward a cleaner environment based on renewable energy. The BUYcott is for those of us who don't have a practical alternative to filling up our cars.
So get your gas at Citgo. And help fuel a democratic revolution in Venezuela.
Jeff Cohen is an author and media critic (www.jeffcohen.org)
bcnu,
Mikem
Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
God Bless America.
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Post #208,255
5/23/05 3:21:56 PM
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Nice tip!
Better for me, there are Citgo stations very close.
Thanks!
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Post #208,258
5/23/05 3:25:06 PM
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Horrible thought.
Won't this action just cause Bush and his pet Congress to declare war on Venezuela?
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] Imric's Tips for Living
- Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
- Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
- Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.
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Nothing is as simple as it seems in the beginning,
As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
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Post #208,260
5/23/05 3:46:37 PM
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They've tried that already. :-(
I'd be more worried about assassination. Remember another popular Latin figure? Che?
bcnu,
Mikem
Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
God Bless America.
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Post #208,306
5/23/05 6:46:05 PM
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Thanks +5 for relevan$e
Not many round chere, but I see there's one a bit westward; will make it a point to coordinate for fillups.
I too see assassination as the means for stamping out non-Vulture Capitalism -- an affront to our National Religion akin to flushing Korans or Constitutions down toilets.
We Do Our Part
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Post #208,440
5/24/05 5:08:00 PM
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Got a Citgo 3 miles away
It's regular unleaded price today is $2.00 9/10, while a Chevron 1/4 mile east of it has regular unleaded for $1.93 9/10. Sorry, but as an unemployed person with little hope of future employment, I gotta buy from the cheaper source whenever possible.
lincoln
"Until the revolution, we are only useful for our private information and our money."
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Post #208,467
5/24/05 10:18:56 PM
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Got a Citgo 3 *blocks* away
This one routinely has the cheapest gas for miles around, including the Thorntons (a local independent brand, known for cheap gas and highly inflated convenience items) right across the street.
I was buying there before it became either fashionable or politically incorrect!
jb4
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Post #208,528
5/25/05 10:39:26 AM
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That's the same here. Citgo is typically cheapest.
bcnu,
Mikem
Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
God Bless America.
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Post #208,595
5/25/05 3:02:17 PM
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Around here
Citgo is being beaten by:
Diamond Shamrock
Chevron
Shell
Exxon
and the major grocery stores:
H-E-B
Randall's
In fact, there's only 1 gas station within this zip code where a Citgo is cheaper, and that's a Texaco that's off the beaten track, that has a mini mart, a pizza takeout, and a paintball (formerly a driving range) field attached to it.
lincoln
"Until the revolution, we are only useful for our private information and our money."
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Post #209,932
6/5/05 4:22:28 PM
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You misspelled "Iraq"
[link|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/politics.world.html#20040819|The Venzuela election was blatantly rigged]
[link|http://www.mre.gov.br/portugues/noticiario/internacional/selecao_detalhe.asp?ID_RESENHA=70533|Here's the story]
Excerpt:
vidence of foul play has surfaced. In the town of Valle de la Pascua, where papers were counted at the initiative of those manning the voting center, the Yes vote had been cut by more than 75 percent, and the entire voting material was seized by the national guard shortly after the difference was established.
Three machines in a voting center in the state of Bolivar that has generally voted against Ch\ufffdvez all showed the same 133 votes for the Yes option, and higher numbers for the No option. Two other machines registered 126 Yes votes and much higher votes for the No. The opposition alleges that these machines, which can both send and receive information, were reprogrammed to start adjudicating all votes to the No option after a given number of Yes votes has been registered.
Although the Organization of American States and the Carter Center have called the election free and fair, their quick count justifying this statement was also based only on the numbers provided by the voting machines. The two organizations had brokered an agreement to examine, in the presence of government and opposition representatives, a sample of 150 voting points chosen at random. A comparison of the results printed out by these machines with the papers contained in the corresponding boxes was to be concluded this week. But the opposition now wants all machines and ballot boxes to be examined.
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Post #209,934
6/5/05 4:29:51 PM
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You're back, darling!
I've SO missed you.
Peter
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Post #209,947
6/5/05 6:09:24 PM
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This just in....
<sarcasm>
according to sources, the elections in Valle de la Pascua used famed "Butterfly-ballots". This appears to have confused the voters into not knowing whether or not they were voting for or against. US officials are demanding that every vote be counted, particular the 143 "dimpled" votes in Venzeula.
</sarcasm>
Yeah, right.
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Post #209,967
6/5/05 10:17:24 PM
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Are you sure that wasn't Ohio?
By the way, quagmire much lately?
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #209,970
6/5/05 11:04:35 PM
8/21/07 6:06:10 AM
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I think it's properly spelled O H I O
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #210,393
6/8/05 1:52:01 AM
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Wake me when
you're off the Neoconman pabulum, Quagmire Boy.
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