Strip Citgo from Florida Turnpike..."a wake-up call for America"

[NotGivingUp]

Rep. Adam Hasner, R-Delray Beach is requesting that Florida strip Citgo of its contract to operate gas stations on Florida's Turnpike. He describes this as "a wake-up call for America". This is front page news in today's St. Pete Times. Hasner sent a letter to Florida's secretary of transportation and to Gov. Jeb Bush. Article goes on to say...Terminating the state's turnpike contract with Citgo would "send a clear message to Chavez...that the state of Florida will not support institutions that seek the destabilization of America."

[sendero]

1. Chavez ..

... is really scared because nobody wants to buy his oil/gas. /sarcasm.

Adam Hasner, another douchebag politician trying to score points with the ignorant, of which there are all too many.

[OhioChick]

2. Funny........

I have a Citgo here close by. Lately, that place is always loaded with cars. It seems like more people are buying Citgo......in this neck of the woods, anyway.

[NotGivingUp]

7. I am soo glad to hear that. I'm going over to Citgo today to fill up.

[madame defarge]

8. In IL too...

I especially loved it when I heard a woman in her SUV with a Bush/Cheney sticker who was commenting about how much cheaper Citgo gas was than the others. I casually said that we can thank Hugo Chavez -- not George -- for that. She was not very amused. :evilgrin:

[katmondoo]

12. Same here in Florida

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Bushco needs only to sign the Fuhrer Order

And everything will be done to appease the Fuhrer!

[Gman]

4. I went to look in the FEC database for how much this guy

was getting from Exxon/Shell et al except Citgo, but apparently he's a state rep.

need a link.

[ThomWV]

5. Not Suprising - "Republicans Raise Gas Prices" Would Be A Good Headline

Because restriction of competition invariably results in increased cost to the consumer. Of course if you are a resident of Florida how much time do you spend on the Turnpike? I lived there (and within just a couple of miles of the turnpike) for almost 20 years and simetimes I'd go years without putting a wheel on it. The price of fuel on that road meant exactly nothing to me as a resident.

[ima_sinnic]

13. & even when (rarely rarely) on the Turnpike, never buy gas there

--I used to travel pretty frequently on the Turnpike on the University of Florida's dime when I was going field research in Ft. Pierce. But even then, out of respect for my professor's grant money, I'd wait to get gas OFF the Turnpike. I think I have been on that overpriced road one time since leaving UF.

[RebelOne]

18. I always try to avoid buying gas on the Turnpike.

I travel often from the Atlanta area to Hollywood, FL. Unfortunately, even a full tank won't last the length of the Turnpike, so I end up having to buy it at least once there.

[Crazy Dave]

6. Oh my God...don't let freedom of choice and freedom in....

...the market actually work in the country that says it's the most tolerant of those choices.

[oasis]

9. Chavez will be forced to dump the oil since other nations can't use it.

Brilliant!:sarcasm:

[LA lady]

10. Snopes refutes ties

Snopes more or less says it deosn't matter:

Neither a "buycott" nor a boycott is likely to accomplish much beyond the symbolic. In the first case, the Citgo brand (marketed by Citgo Petroleum Corporation, which has been owned by Petróleos de Venezuela,
the national oil company of Venezuela, since 1990) doesn't have nearly enough presence in the U.S. to satisfy demand; in the second case, boycotting a gasoline brand over political issues is problematic for a number of reasons (not least of which is the notion that threatening not to buy gasoline from someone who is threatening not to sell it to you doesn't sound like an effective ploy for either side).

Although Citgo may be owned by Petróleos de Venezuela, it is a formerly American company which is still headquartered in the U.S. (in Houston, Texas), employs 4,000 people, and supplies 14,000 independent retailers with gasoline and other petroleum products — Americans with no substantive connection to Venezuela who would be economically harmed by such an action. (Citgo also provides free or discounted heating oil to low-income communities and tribal reservations within the United States.) And, of course, in today's oil market Citgo could likely find alternative buyers for its products far more easily than the U.S. could make up the shortfall created by a cut-off of Venezuelan oil.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/citgo.asp

[niallmac]

11. A clear message to gouged motorists more like it.

Chavez is a danged commnist that's what! If we don't prevent
him from being a populist why the U.S. will once again have to
go into South America and create a democratically elected
fascist government to protect our rich friends who are
living in fear of Chavez.

[guajira]

14. I Buy ONLY Citgo -- No Middle East/Saudi Oil

Venezuela has never attacked us, and unlike Saudi Arabia does not prevent women from driving and other freedoms.

Chavez discounts oil for low income Americans to heat their houses. And he speaks the truth about Bush!!!

I will continue to buy Citgo only!

[NotGivingUp]

15. I think the turnpike may be just the beginning & we'll be paying

more. They will have effectively cut the supply and will charge more.

[lectrobyte]

16. Saudi Arabia oil good, South America oil bad.

Remind who flew those planes into the Twin Towers again?

[Atman]

17. The rep from Boston wants to remove the Citgo sign from Fenway Park!

Talk about a city landmark! That giant neon Citgo sign has been there since I was a kid...it is as much a Boston landmark as The Pru or Fenway Park itself. But some dipwad thin-skinned opportunistic tool wants to have it removed because of Chavez' remarks.

[NotGivingUp]

19. Citgo paid $1-million to refurbish the sign just last year.