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"Harry Hope" |
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24 Nov 2005 01:44:41 PM |
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Venezuela's Chavez embarrasses Bush with cheap fuel for US poor |
From The Telegraph, 11/24/05:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/24/wchavez24.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/24/ixnewstop.html
Chavez embarrasses Bush with cheap fuel for US poor
By Alec Russell in Washington
Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, has pulled off his greatest public
relations coup yet in his campaign to irritate the Bush administration
with a deal to supply cheap fuel to thousands of poor residents of
Boston and New York.
To the annoyance of many in Washington, Citgo Petroleum Corporation, a
company controlled by the Venezuelan government, is to supply more
than 12 million gallons of heating oil at 40 per cent below market
prices.
The deal is one of the most high-profile moves yet in Mr Chavez's bid
to market his "21st-century socialism" using his country's oil wealth.
While it will not change many minds in Washington about his populist
and autocratic regime, the government in Caracas hopes that it will
help to stake out Mr Chavez's claim as the coming leader of an
anti-capitalist Latin America.
Mr Chavez, who once dubbed President George W Bush a "genocidal
madman" and led a huge anti-American protest earlier this month, first
proposed his fuel offer in August when oil prices were at a record
high after Hurricane Katrina.
Since then prices have dropped a little but there is still widespread
public concern in America over the anticipated cost of heating bills
this winter.
Joe Kennedy, the chairman of Citizens Energy, one of the organisations
that will distribute the oil, said the deal highlighted the failure of
oil companies in the US and the government to step in to help.
"Our federal government has made billions and billions of dollars just
this year on the royalty payments the oil companies pay to the
government," he said.
But when it is a question of poor Americans, he said, "What do we hear
from Washington? Sorry boys. There's no money in the till."
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Viva Chavez
Harry
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| User: "Frank B." |
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| Title: Re: Venezuela's Chavez embarrasses Bush with cheap fuel for US poor |
24 Nov 2005 05:03:24 PM |
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"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:o06co1p32hdgh2j7vc351tec2o6ddm9grl@4ax.com...
From The Telegraph, 11/24/05:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/24/wchavez24.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/24/ixnewstop.html
Chavez embarrasses Bush with cheap fuel for US poor
By Alec Russell in Washington
Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, has pulled off his greatest public
relations coup yet in his campaign to irritate the Bush administration
with a deal to supply cheap fuel to thousands of poor residents of
Boston and New York.
Somehow it seemed that Joe Kennedy was a natural at helping to distribute
(redistrubute?) communist manna. Viva Chavez, Viva Kennedy....Long live
the revolution!
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| User: "Rick Hohensee" |
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| Title: Re: Venezuela's Chavez embarrasses Bush with cheap fuel for US poor |
24 Nov 2005 05:16:43 PM |
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Chavez needs to legalize cocaine, marijuana and opium if he really thinks
he's a leftie. That won't cost him anything.
--
Rick (Richard Allen) Hohensee Party of one
candidate, President of the United States of America
humbubba@smart.net Maryland, USA
Ground troops out of Iraq Put the CIA under INS
Semi-legalize drugs Prosecute Bush Tighten the borders
Isolate Israel Tax churches halve military aquisitions
platform http://www.smart.net/~humbubba/platform
Hohensee-Feingold Amendment http://www.smart.net/~humbubba
In article <0Frhf.141983$tD4.14599@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com>,
Frank B. <f@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:o06co1p32hdgh2j7vc351tec2o6ddm9grl@4ax.com...
From The Telegraph, 11/24/05:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/24/wchavez24.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/24/ixnewstop.html
Chavez embarrasses Bush with cheap fuel for US poor
By Alec Russell in Washington
Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez, has pulled off his greatest public
relations coup yet in his campaign to irritate the Bush administration
with a deal to supply cheap fuel to thousands of poor residents of
Boston and New York.
Somehow it seemed that Joe Kennedy was a natural at helping to distribute
(redistrubute?) communist manna. Viva Chavez, Viva Kennedy....Long live
the revolution!
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| User: "Dennis M" |
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| Title: Re: Venezuela's Chavez embarrasses Bush with cheap fuel for US poor |
24 Nov 2005 05:28:36 PM |
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In article <0Frhf.141983$tD4.14599@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com>, "Frank B."
<f@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
Somehow it seemed that Joe Kennedy was a natural at helping to distribute
(redistrubute?) communist manna. Viva Chavez, Viva Kennedy....Long live
the revolution!
Don't you want poor young men and women in Mass. to survive the harsh
winter and grow up to fight in imperial Republican wars?
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| User: "Susan" |
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| Title: Re: Venezuela's Chavez embarrasses Bush with cheap fuel for US poor |
24 Nov 2005 03:57:16 PM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
From The Telegraph, 11/24/05:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/24/wchavez24.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/24/ixnewstop.html
Chavez embarrasses Bush with cheap fuel for US poor
By Alec Russell in Washington
It sure would be nice if we could mobilize the poor (and insure legitimate
elections) like they've done in Venezuela. I bet we could knock this
ultra-corrupt US government on it's *****.
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