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I checked Snopes urban legends...
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/saudigas.asp
To quote:
"CITGO is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the national oil company of
Venezuela, so naturally most of its crude oil comes from there. However,
in February 2002 CITGO also imported from Middle Eastern countries in
the following quantities:
Iraq: 1,342,000 barrels
Kuwait: 437,000 barrels"
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From: salifou issoufou <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, June 2, 2005 2:35 pm
Subject: Fwd: FW: Switch to Citgo!
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> Subject: FW: Switch to Citgo!
> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:31:06 -0500
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> >From: Mat Rehwaldt <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: Mat Rehwaldt <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: Jeremy Rehwaldt-Alexander <[log in to unmask]>, David Clausing
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> >Subject: Switch to Citgo!
> >Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:18:10 -0500
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> > 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
> >http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp
> ><http://wwwcitgo.com/CITGOLocator/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
> ><http://www.jeffcohen.org>
> ><http://www.jeffcohen.org> )
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