Venezuela to donate more heating oil to U.S. poor

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Venezuela to donate more heating oil to U.S. poor
Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:27am GMT

By Jason Szep

BOSTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Standing on the deck of an oil tanker in Massachusetts Bay on Monday, Venezuelan energy officials kicked off the third year of a controversial program of delivering subsidized home-heating oil for the U.S. poor.

A Houston unit of a state-owned company backed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a foe of the Bush administration, will supply oil at 40 percent below market prices in 23 states, an expansion from 16 states last year.

The donations by Citgo Petroleum Corp, owned by Venezuelan state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela, are worth about $147 million at market prices.

Deliveries began arriving at homes just as a deadly ice storm swept the U.S. Plains and many Americans start to grapple with record heating bills to heat this winter.



Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1045253920071211

[Pastiche423]

1. Gracias Chavez de Presidente!

[HughMoran]

2. Can I get some?

We're all gonna be poor at the end of this winter :(

[Judi Lynn]

3. Officials: More Heating Help Needed For Struggling Families

Officials: More Heating Help Needed For Struggling Families
Citizens Energy Gets Oil Shipment From Venezuela

POSTED: 4:52 pm EST December 10, 2007
UPDATED: 6:11 pm EST December 10, 2007

BRAINTREE, Mass. -- Help for families trying to stay warm this winter arrived in the form of an oil tanker in Braintree on Monday. But even as Joe Kennedy accepted a huge shipment of oil for Citizens Energy, he said he is worried that it won't be enough.

NewsCenter 5's Kelley Tuthill reported that it is the third year that Citizens Energy has partnered with Venezuela's Citgo to provide millions of gallons of heating oil to families in 16 states.

Kennedy said his program might not be enough to help many families struggling to heat their homes amid skyrocketing oil prices this year.

"We can get them 100 gallons, but that's it. Unless the federal government puts money back into fuel assistance, I'm so worried about what people are going to go through this winter," Kennedy said.

More:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14816257/detail.html

[provis99]

4. giving away oil? What a dictator!

[lvx35]

7. Hey, Hitler did it!

You know, when he gave heating oil donations to the British? Oh wait. That never happened. Whoops.

[Kurovski]

17. Good going, Oprah.

at least he gives away shit we need, instead of DVDs and Popsicles. :-)

Recommended.

[Ignis]

23. Yes, he just chose BOMBS as the delivery method.

:rofl:

But he did deliver light and heat in this approach.

[balantz]

5. That's fucking brilliant!

Thanks Venezuela!

[rAVES]

6. K&R

[trashcanistanista]

8. Now with a Dem president

we should be matching Chavez's donation with one of our own and sending the Venezuelans cases of wine for CHristmas. Thank you Hugo. Felice Navidad.

[Angela Shelley]

20. Great Idea!

[EFerrari]

9. Bravo.

K&R

[AllyCat]

10. But, but, but, he's an evil dictator and hates the U.S!!

Viva Chavez. I'm sorry he can't be elected to more than 2 terms. It was a nice try though.

[Rageneau]

12. I wish our evil dictator was as nice as Venezuela's evil dictator is.

[Angela Shelley]

21. No chance of that

[Orwellian_Ghost]

11. K&R n/t

[Selatius]

13. This at a time when Bush has cut money for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program

Cuts in heating oil pushed by Bush:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/11/national/main532737.shtml

GO FUCK YOURSELF, BUSH!

[rAVES]

14. any rightwing spin storys to read on this? I feel like a laugh right now.

[EFerrari]

16. No, the Noise Machine shut up as soon as the vote went their way.

Funny how at that exact moment Chavez stoppped being a threat to humanity AND the vote turned out to be squeaky clean.

[Forkboy]

24. He's pandering to leftist sympathies.

Did that help? :evilgrin:

[Psephos]

15. I think this is what they call a "Win-Win"

Chavez gets some needed PR + a chance to thumb his nose at Bush; people struggling with rising oil prices get some needed relief.

Works for me.

[Zorra]

18. Bu*h will probably confiscate the oil and use it to fuel tanks in Iraq.

And besides, those poor folks should suffer in the cold, and shouldn't be rewarded for not slaving hard enough in the wonderful "free market" to be able to keep themselves warm.
:sarcasm:

[Angela Shelley]

19. Now that´s good news!

and vveeeerrrry interesting.

[ceile]

22. 23 states?

Thanks, Hugo!