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Looking for an easy way to protest Bush foreign policy week after week? http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp |
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 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.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-25.htm
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| Title: Re: Looking for an easy way to protest Bush foreign policy week after week? http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp |
14 Aug 2005 11:53:54 AM |
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wrote:
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 to find one near
you.)
[...]
This is like buying Fair Trade-certified coffee! And there are several
Citgos with in 10 miles of my house. Thanks for the heads-up!
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| User: "Shawn Hirn" |
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| Title: Re: Looking for an easy way to protest Bush foreign policy week after week? http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp |
14 Aug 2005 07:10:03 AM |
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In article <1123910749.882050.112730@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
wrote:
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."
The store locator doesn't show any Citgo stations in my area. Even so,
you are making the assumption that each Citgo station actually sells
Citgo gas. That's not always going to be true.
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