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Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:52:30 -0400
To: Christine Kapusky <ckapoo &AElig gmail.com>
Cc: improvetheworld &AElig umich.edu
From: Brian Renaud <brian.renaud &AElig gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!
Status: O

I believe the US, Norway, Canada and Mexico are all have reasonably
well-functioning democracies and produce more oil than Venezuala.  The
UK is pretty close in oil production.

Of course, the mass/alternative transport option is still a good one.

-Brian

On 5/23/05, Christine Kapusky <ckapoo &AElig gmail.com> wrote:
> Spread the word!
> 
> 
> 
>  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 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 )
>