On Tuesday, August 30, 2005 5:22 PM [PDT], Brian O'Grady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This ran in today's Chicago Tribune. Does anyone know anything more > about this? > > CARACAS, VENEZUELA -- After a four-hour closed-door meeting Monday, > Jesse Jackson and Venezuela President Hugo Chavez announced a plan to > help the poor in the United States weather the storm of rising fuel > costs this winter. > > Chavez said that the Venezuelan-owned, Texas-based Citgo Petroleum Co. > would offer to poor schools, hospitals, churches and other groups > 66,000 barrels a day of oil products refined at its U.S. plants. > > Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said Chavez has offered heating oil to be > sold directly to communities, avoiding retailers, to bring down costs, > Ramirez said. Details of the plan would have to be settled. Jackson > called it "a brilliant idea." That Hugo! What a kidder! Look here, Venezuela's working on it unless the U.S government torpedoes it: http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/2005/08/verified-venezuela-to-sell-cut-price.html Venezuela/Latin America news: http://www.leighm.net/vnnws Leigh www.leighm.net
