Venezuela's president has decided to expand his Oil-for-the-Poor program and sell cheap oil to the number one superpower of the world. The Houston-based petroleum company CITGO, wholly owned by Venezuela, will begin the program in Boston. Up to 12 million gallons of heating oil will be offered at a bargain price, representing $10 million in savings for locals, according to CITGO.
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article ... ryid=47165
Ouch
Unfortunately; for the needy to get a break from their own pathetic greed infested pigs, it would take a freakin baseball bat.
RACK Hugo Chavez for setting a good example.
RACK HIM AGAIN, for his Christian act.
Govn finally gives the American Poor a break
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Govn finally gives the American Poor a break
Am I wrong...God, I hope so.
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I feel your pain as I can empathize with the silent embarrassment of your most disturbing disenchantment.
I too was in a state of mute bewilderment when the illusion first begun to dissipate about me, and can fully understand the despair in your difficulty to respond to the knawing prospect that you are but nothing more then meaningless pawns of the greed infested who rule us over.
If this helps speed up your process; YES, our governments are a $ham, YES, our vote is indeed an exercise in futility, and YES, our carnal life here belongs wholly to the bea$ts greed machine.
While you attempt to get over your trama and move on; here's a little something on the thread subject to replace the hurt and emptiness which initially accompanies the realization that ones poli_puke_$ystem doesn't really give a crap about that which they are supposed to cuz their over-all purpose is to simply herd the sheep in the right direction.
If it helps to ease your pain; your $elf_$erving poli_puke$ are mearly pawns of the bea$t, as well.
Best for you to just try and cheer it upsome if you can cuz by all indications of our enslavement, things can't help but get worse given the direction that we be confined upon.
Anywho, I do hope your recovery goes well, and you enjoy the following read, and if it helps; Jesus loves the eternal better you, as so do I . :)
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1122-24.htm
Oil For Bronx Poor is a Foreign Gift
Santa Claus, make way for Santa Chavez
by Juan Gonzalez
Poor residents and nonprofit groups in the South Bronx are about to receive a huge Christmas gift from Venezuela's firebrand President Hugo Chavez: Eight-million gallons of heating oil at bargain-basement prices.
Two months ago, in an interview with the Daily News during his visit to the United Nations, Chavez first made the startling offer of cheap fuel for this winter from his oil-rich country to a handful of poor communities in the United States.
At the time, critics of the radical populist Chavez, the Bush administration's biggest nemesis in South America, scoffed at his proposal.
But the Venezuelan leader is about to deliver.
"The first shipments of low-cost fuel from CITGO will begin arriving in my district by late next week," U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano (D-South Bronx) said yesterday.
CITGO, the Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela's national oil company, owns 14,000 gas stations and eight refineries in the U.S. Because of that, Chavez has a ready-made distribution system and doesn't need any special approvals from the White House for his project.
"My constituents are facing some of the highest energy bills in recent history, even as oil companies are reporting the largest profits in recent memory," Serrano said. "I'm very pleased to have helped broker this historic agreement."
The Bronx congressman has been working feverishly for weeks to connect local nonprofit groups with CITGO and Venezuelan government officials. The South Bronx plan is similar to one announced yesterday in Boston for CITGO to supply 12 million gallons of discounted heating oil to 45,000 low-income families and nonprofits in Massachusetts.
Under the Chavez plan, CITGO will sell oil for way below the market price - about $1.35 a gallon instead of the current average of $2.25. The average Massachusetts homeowner would save about $180 for each 200-gallon shipment, enough to last about three weeks.
But the South Bronx project is a little more complicated because so many low-income residents live in rental apartments instead of individual homes.
"The Venezuelans want to make sure landlords don't pocket all the savings," Serrano said.
You can be sure, if there's a way to do so, New York City landlords will find it.
That's why Serrano recruited several local nonprofit housing corporations to be the first to join the discount-fuel program.
To assure that the bulk of savings are passed on to residents, not just to the nonprofit corporation, lawyers for CITGO are working out a pilot effort in which every renter will receive a cash voucher equal to the average fuel savings for each unit in the building.
"The idea is to make sure the financial help goes directly to the poor, not the middle man," Serrano said.
Details are still being ironed out by lawyers for all sides, Serrano said, which is why he will not announce the specific housing groups and buildings to receive the first fuel shipments until a press conference late next week.
"We'll start with a few groups, then expand it throughout the winter," Serrano said. Homeowners aren't the only ones eligible: Even schools in low-income areas could apply for the program.
In his interview with me two months ago, Chavez vowed to set aside 10% of all the oil that CITGO refineries produce for his oil-for-the-poor program.
His government is already directing hundreds of millions of dollars from its windfall petroleum profits to expand social programs for Venezuela's own poor, and it has begun providing cheap oil to more than a dozen poor Caribbean nations.
To the people at the Bush White House and their buddies at the Big Oil companies, sharing the wealth with those less fortunate is a dangerous idea.
Santa Claus is for children, they say, and profits are for shareholders, and this Chavez guy is giving oil a bad name.
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Again and never enough:
RACK the human Chavez, and for the sake of all humanity, here's to the bea$ts man servant not succeeding in murdering him.
I too was in a state of mute bewilderment when the illusion first begun to dissipate about me, and can fully understand the despair in your difficulty to respond to the knawing prospect that you are but nothing more then meaningless pawns of the greed infested who rule us over.
If this helps speed up your process; YES, our governments are a $ham, YES, our vote is indeed an exercise in futility, and YES, our carnal life here belongs wholly to the bea$ts greed machine.
While you attempt to get over your trama and move on; here's a little something on the thread subject to replace the hurt and emptiness which initially accompanies the realization that ones poli_puke_$ystem doesn't really give a crap about that which they are supposed to cuz their over-all purpose is to simply herd the sheep in the right direction.
If it helps to ease your pain; your $elf_$erving poli_puke$ are mearly pawns of the bea$t, as well.
Best for you to just try and cheer it upsome if you can cuz by all indications of our enslavement, things can't help but get worse given the direction that we be confined upon.
Anywho, I do hope your recovery goes well, and you enjoy the following read, and if it helps; Jesus loves the eternal better you, as so do I . :)
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1122-24.htm
Oil For Bronx Poor is a Foreign Gift
Santa Claus, make way for Santa Chavez
by Juan Gonzalez
Poor residents and nonprofit groups in the South Bronx are about to receive a huge Christmas gift from Venezuela's firebrand President Hugo Chavez: Eight-million gallons of heating oil at bargain-basement prices.
Two months ago, in an interview with the Daily News during his visit to the United Nations, Chavez first made the startling offer of cheap fuel for this winter from his oil-rich country to a handful of poor communities in the United States.
At the time, critics of the radical populist Chavez, the Bush administration's biggest nemesis in South America, scoffed at his proposal.
But the Venezuelan leader is about to deliver.
"The first shipments of low-cost fuel from CITGO will begin arriving in my district by late next week," U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano (D-South Bronx) said yesterday.
CITGO, the Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela's national oil company, owns 14,000 gas stations and eight refineries in the U.S. Because of that, Chavez has a ready-made distribution system and doesn't need any special approvals from the White House for his project.
"My constituents are facing some of the highest energy bills in recent history, even as oil companies are reporting the largest profits in recent memory," Serrano said. "I'm very pleased to have helped broker this historic agreement."
The Bronx congressman has been working feverishly for weeks to connect local nonprofit groups with CITGO and Venezuelan government officials. The South Bronx plan is similar to one announced yesterday in Boston for CITGO to supply 12 million gallons of discounted heating oil to 45,000 low-income families and nonprofits in Massachusetts.
Under the Chavez plan, CITGO will sell oil for way below the market price - about $1.35 a gallon instead of the current average of $2.25. The average Massachusetts homeowner would save about $180 for each 200-gallon shipment, enough to last about three weeks.
But the South Bronx project is a little more complicated because so many low-income residents live in rental apartments instead of individual homes.
"The Venezuelans want to make sure landlords don't pocket all the savings," Serrano said.
You can be sure, if there's a way to do so, New York City landlords will find it.
That's why Serrano recruited several local nonprofit housing corporations to be the first to join the discount-fuel program.
To assure that the bulk of savings are passed on to residents, not just to the nonprofit corporation, lawyers for CITGO are working out a pilot effort in which every renter will receive a cash voucher equal to the average fuel savings for each unit in the building.
"The idea is to make sure the financial help goes directly to the poor, not the middle man," Serrano said.
Details are still being ironed out by lawyers for all sides, Serrano said, which is why he will not announce the specific housing groups and buildings to receive the first fuel shipments until a press conference late next week.
"We'll start with a few groups, then expand it throughout the winter," Serrano said. Homeowners aren't the only ones eligible: Even schools in low-income areas could apply for the program.
In his interview with me two months ago, Chavez vowed to set aside 10% of all the oil that CITGO refineries produce for his oil-for-the-poor program.
His government is already directing hundreds of millions of dollars from its windfall petroleum profits to expand social programs for Venezuela's own poor, and it has begun providing cheap oil to more than a dozen poor Caribbean nations.
To the people at the Bush White House and their buddies at the Big Oil companies, sharing the wealth with those less fortunate is a dangerous idea.
Santa Claus is for children, they say, and profits are for shareholders, and this Chavez guy is giving oil a bad name.
------------
Again and never enough:
RACK the human Chavez, and for the sake of all humanity, here's to the bea$ts man servant not succeeding in murdering him.
Am I wrong...God, I hope so.
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He might be a complete dickhead, but a hearty RACK to Chavez for a brilliantly subtle "fuck you" to the US gov't.
If there's a state-run Venezuelan flannel factory, you can bet they'll be cranking out blankets to be passed out to the homeless in San Francisco and Seattle next winter.
This is so much better than the sabre-rattling bullshit from North Korea and the like.
If there's a state-run Venezuelan flannel factory, you can bet they'll be cranking out blankets to be passed out to the homeless in San Francisco and Seattle next winter.
This is so much better than the sabre-rattling bullshit from North Korea and the like.