BUY -cott CITGO - support Venezuela!

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-25.htm

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. 
 
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