Conn. Approves Venezuelan Heating Oil

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/feb/28/022801325.html

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut has given social service agencies permission to supply low-income residents with discounted heating oil from Venezuela, whose energy aid program for the needy has rankled the Bush administration.

The state Department of Social Services began notifying the nonprofit agencies Monday after Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ruled that the Venezuelan oil program is legal, said David McDonald, spokesman for the Connecticut Association for Community Action, a coalition of the private nonprofit groups.

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Venezuela, the fifth-largest foreign supplier of oil to the U.S., has been supplying millions of gallons of heating oil at a 40 percent discount to poor Americans and free heating fuel to homeless shelters.

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In Washington, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Rep. Ed Whitfield, the Republican chairman of the subcommittee for oversight and investigations, have voiced concern that the oil deals are "part of an unfriendly government's increasingly belligerent and hostile foreign policy" toward the United States.

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[phantom power]

1. venezuelan heating oil donations, E.U. strategic reserve donations...

I wonder what our economy would be looking like this winter without international charity.

[Coexist]

2. Aha! One of those "Victories of Common Sense" we hear about.

Good on CT - people should not have to choose between going cold and going hungry.

[MadMaddie]

3. Compassionate Conservatism...

translation...
Since we repugs are not going to help the poor with heating oil any country that does try to help the US poor is hostile to the * regime!!


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In Washington, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Rep. Ed Whitfield, the Republican chairman of the subcommittee for oversight and investigations, have voiced concern that the oil deals are "part of an unfriendly government's increasingly belligerent and hostile foreign policy" toward the United States.
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