Buy your gas at Citgo. Here's why:

[roguevalley]

A letter from Bartcop:

Re: Citgo

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.

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 to find one near you: http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp) 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.

[Jade Fox]

1. Thanks for the info!

[Nitrogenica]

2. Disinformation?

[donheld]

3. Say what?

:shrug:

[1932]

4. No. Just information.

I'm sure it's going to freak out a lot of right wingers.

[mcscajun]

7. Only a tad...

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

[1932]

8. 2002 might have been an unusual year. It wasn't until after 2003 RW strike

that Chavez replaced CITGO management with people who represented the interests of Venezuela.

That year, they might have been trying to cause misery in Venezuela, and part of that plan might have been to make less work for Venezuelans.

But I'm guessing.

[mcscajun]

9. Dunno. I'm sure the info is somewhere in the CITGO Annual Reports.

If you can read that deep into corporate-speak. I won't. :)

[krkaufman]

5. Thanks for the positive action info. n/t

[SouthernDem2004]

6. Citgo's parent company is Petroleos de Venezuela. Info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petróleos_de_Venezuela

http://www.pdvsa.com/en/

http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/41/41358.html

[Berry Cool]

10. Snopes is your friend...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/saudigas.asp

covers a variation on this theme that would imply it doesn't matter much where you buy your gas. What really matters is how MUCH you buy.

[OneTwentyoNine]

11. You could cut off mid-east oil with E-85 produced in quanity....

It will most likely never be an end all but it would be enough to cut off or come very close to cutting off that 31% of mid east Oil. For those who don't know that fuel is 85% ethanol and only 15% regular gasoline. Of course the engine has to be able to run on it so it can only be run in newer cars. And...IMO the oil companies are putting pressure on Detroit not to make those engines available in very many vehicles--its a fucking insult to see just how few can run on that gas. Most times when I check its about .50 per gallon cheaper,and thats with it not be produced in huge quantities.

Of course all the idiots want everyone to think that we get 90-95% of all crude from Saudis which in fact is not true. When I told a friend the other day that we get about as much oil from Canada as we do the Saudis he all but called me a liar.

Whatda you know,in May of 05 we got MORE oil from Canada than SA. Guess I'll be feeding him this chart for lunch come monday.

[win_in_06]

12. Thanks!