Re: venezuela helps U.S. citizens

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:59:56 GMT, "SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim"
<killgod@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>gee, wonder why the U.S. government won't help U.S. citizens.
>save america, kill a republicscum today
>
>http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/22/venezuela.us.fuel.ap/index.html
>
>QUINCY, Massachusetts (AP) -- Thousands of low-income Massachusetts
>residents will receive discounted home heating oil this winter under an
>agreement signed Tuesday with Venezuela, whose government is a political
>adversary of the Bush administration.
>
>Citgo Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company,
>will supply oil at 40 percent below market prices.
>
>It will be distributed by two nonprofit organizations, Citizens Energy Corp.
>and the Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance.
>
>The agreement gives President Hugo Chavez's government standing as a
>provider of heating assistance to poor U.S. residents at a time when U.S.
>oil companies have been reluctant to do so and Congress has failed to expand
>aid in response to rising oil prices.
>
>U.S. Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts, a Democrat, met with Chavez in
>August and helped broker the deal.
>
>He said his constituents' needs for heating assistance trump any political
>points the Chavez administration can score.
>
>"This is a humanitarian gesture," Delahunt said, speaking after a news
>conference with Venezuelan officials and others outside the home of a
>constituent in Quincy who will receive heating aid.
>
>Citgo is the Houston, Texas-based subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil
>company and has about 13,500 independently owned U.S. gas stations.
>
>It is offering Massachusetts more than 12 million gallons of discounted
>heating oil over the next four months, starting in December.
>
>The two nonprofit organizations will screen recipients for financial need
>and cooperate with oil distributors that will make discounted deliveries to
>qualifying homes and institutions, such as homeless shelters and hospitals.
>
>Chavez proposed offering fuel directly to poor U.S. communities during a
>visit to Cuba in August.
>
>He has said the aim is to bypass middlemen to reduce costs for the American
>poor -- a group he argues has been severely neglected by Bush's government.
>
>Chavez has become one of Latin America's most vocal critics of U.S.-style
>capitalism, which he calls a major cause of poverty.
>
>U.S. officials accuse Chavez of endangering Venezuelan democracy by assuming
>ever greater powers.
>
>During a short-lived 2002 coup against Chavez, the U.S. government promptly
>recognized the new leaders, who were soon driven out amid a popular
>uprising.
>
Thanks Hugo. I'm sure that your third world poor applicate your
largess with their money. With an average personal income of slightly
more than half of that of Mexico I'm sure that they feel that they
have money to burn.


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