[LAAMN] FWD: BUY YOUR GAS AT CITGO: JOIN THE BUY-COTT!!!

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�   Published on Monday, May 16, 2005 by CommonDreams.org 
    
Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott! 
    
by Jeff Cohen
    
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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 
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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 <A 
HREF="http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp";>
http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp</A> 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 (<A 
HREF="http://www.jeffcohen.org/";>www.jeffcohen.org</A>
    
    
    
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