Support democratic Venezuela - buy CITGO gas (if you buy any gas)

[JackRiddler]

(For those who missed it, and for the doubters, a new attempt.)

Join the CITGO BUYcott:
See http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-25.htm

Find the CITGO station nearest you:
http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp

CITGO is a fully-owned subsidiary of the Venezuelan state oil company. When you buy at CITGO, you are supporting democratic Venezuela, which is under siege from the Bush administration.

Venezuela already endured and survived a CIA-backed coup attempt in April 2002; the victory of the people in bringing Chavez back to power was an inspiring turning point for Latin America.

Of course, we all need to reduce our energy and especially fossil fuel consumption every way we can. Buying CITGO is not a cure-all. But if you need to buy gas anyway, do it at CITGO.

This also means less of your money will go to the Middle Eastern monarchies like Saudi Arabia.

Of course, at the theoretical extreme, if everyone switched to CITGO, it would be forced to buy Middle Eastern oil to provide for the demand. As long as oil is used, the kingdoms will still end up getting about the same money.

But on a more practical level: Imagine what a message it will send if U.S.-based CITGO sales double, while Exxon sales plunge! For anyone within easy range of a CITGO station, the decision is clear.

(Please punt, forward and recommend!)

[Captain Hilts]

1. I always make an effort to buy CITGO gas.

To keep money in THIS hemisphere and out of the bin Laden family's bank account.

[JackRiddler]

2. Mookie!

Everyone's favorite Met! We miss you. How do you like this year, though? Just watched'em crush the Phillies. Sweet.

[Captain Hilts]

3. I worked at Met Park in Norfolk when Mookie was a minor leaguer...

he later followed me to Toronto.

Mike Piazza used to sweep floors for my uncle. His old man owns nearly every car dealership in Philly and my uncle managed one of them. Vince Piazza gave Mike to my uncle for a summer.

It's ALWAYS good to beat the Phils, isn't it?

[JackRiddler]

4. yes, of course...

best would be if it ever becomes possible to beat Atlanta.

So, do you still know Mookie or Piazza? You think any of these guys is a 9/11 skeptic? (One current baseball star could finance a movement on a third of his salary.)

Sorry, can't help that, I always ask that.

[1932]

5. What kind of job took you from Norfolk to Toronto?

[Captain Hilts]

6. Mookie and Me: Norfolk to Toronto

For me it was graduate school.

I've met the Mook a couple of times - a gem of a man and his wife is just as good.

I've never met Piazza actually, but my uncle vividly remembers when Vince Piazza plucked Ted Williams out of the Keys and flew him up to watch Mike play baseball when he was a kid. Ted said that Mike had more talent than he had at that age. And, of course, Vince Piazza was/is married to Tommy Lasorda's sister. Hence, why Mike was drafted number 5?? in the draft as a dark horse.

By the way, the Tides new stadium is absolutely wonderful. The old one always had a nice breeze off the water, but was a rat hole.

[1932]

7. A PhD in Baseball History, perhaps?

Or baseball poetry?

[trogdor]

8. There's a CITGO 3/4 of a mile from me.

It's good gas.

[JackRiddler]

9. well, I expect...

it's just like all the other gas.

I find it curious that this thread has not attracted more interest here.