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Hugo Chavez offers inexpensive gasoline to USA’s poor
by
Hector Carreon
La Voz de Aztlan

Caracas, Venezuela - August 29, 2005 - (ACN) The Mexico City newspaper that
has been covering the Reverend Jesse Jackson’s visit to Venezuela, El
Universal, is reporting that President Hugo Chavez is offering gasoline and
heating fuel at very low and affordable prices to the poor and needy in the
USA. Hugo Chavez said yesterday that he will be apportioning 1.5 million
barrels of oil daily at 40% less than market price through the Venezuelan
government-owned "Citgo" in the USA. Citgo will refine the oil into gasoline
and heating fuel and make it available to the unemployed, the poor and old
folks who find it difficult to heat their homes in the winter. Petróleos de
Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela, purchased Citgo in the 1990’s.

The "Jesus-like" offer by Hugo Chavez came after USA televangelist Pat
Robertson called for the assassination of the Venezuelan president and after
Chavez said he may insist on "extraditing" Robertson to Venezuela. Not many
Americans know that Robertson , the former US presidential candidate, is a
failed "wannabe oilman" who squandered millions of his followers' dollars in
the purchase of a run-down oil refinery . This information is mostly known
to the citizens of Santa Fe Springs, California, where Pat Robertson lost an
expensive battle to start up the highly polluting refinery he purchased from
a savvy business group that essentially dumped the old and useless refinery
on the televangelist. The refinery is now a rotting pile of iron junk and an
ugly eyesore in the City of Santa Fe Springs. Pat Robertson is not very
smart, and the financial disaster represented by "The Oil Refinery Folly" in
Santa Fe Springs may have led to the mental derangement of the
televangelist. The Pat Robertson’s oil refinery is located on the corner of
Florence and Bloomfield Avenues in the City of Santa Fe Springs, California.
La Voz de Aztlan has a Google Earth satellite photograph of the rotting
refinery below.

President Hugo Chavez said that he estimates that his offer will benefit
from between 7 to 8 million needy Americans. He added that his embassy in
Washington, D.C. has already received 140 applications for the program
because Americans are being "defrauded" and "gouged" by greedy US oil
companies like Chevron and others. Chavez plans to implement the program
through 8 refineries and 14 thousand gas stations that Citgo (Petróleos de
Venezuela, S.A.) owns in the USA.

Meanwhile, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who is visiting Venezuela, said that
the suggestion by Pat Robertson to "assassinate" Hugo Chavez is a criminal
act. Jackson also believes that it is "immoral and un-Christian". The
Reverend Jackson also condemned comments that Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld made recently concerning President Hugo Chavez. Rumsfeld said that
Chavez represented "a destabilizing influence in the region". The Reverend
Jackson commented that these were the same kind of remarks that were being
made against Saddam Hussein to justify a war against the oil-rich country of
Iraq.

http://www.aztlan.net/chavez_gas_for_poor.htm


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