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 Published on Monday, May 16, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
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> Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!
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> 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 stations.
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> And tell your friends.
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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."
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> 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
> herehttp://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp 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.
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> 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.
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> So this is the opposite of a boycott. Call it a BUYcott. Spread the
> word.
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> 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.
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> So get your gas at Citgo. And help fuel a democratic revolution in
> Venezuela.
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> Jeff Cohen is an author and media critic (www.jeffcohen.org)