Boycotting Chavez - How to Buy American ( Sorta )
Posted by Moonage on 29 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: International Issues
GOP and the City has an incredible post on who is boycotting Citgo, and how you can too by buying "American".
However, for me, the most useful thing they have is a link to "How To Buy American". It contains a list of gas suppliers and their country of origin. Pretty dang cool and not terribly easy to find. For chucksn and giggles, here it is:
| Chevron | American |
| Coastal | American |
| Conoco | American |
| Esso | American |
| American | |
| Gas Express | American |
| Getty | American |
| Gulf | American |
| Hess | American |
| Kerr-McGee | American |
| Marathon | American |
| Martin | American |
| Mobil | American |
| Murphy USA | American |
| Pate | American |
| Petro | American |
| Phillips 66 | American |
| Sergaz | American |
| Sinclair | American |
| Sonoco | American |
| Spur | American |
| Star Kleen | American |
| STP Fuel Centers | American |
| Sunoco | American |
| Tenneco | American |
| Texaco | American |
| Ultramar | American |
| Union 76 | American |
| Zephyr | American |
| Amoco | UK |
| Arco | UK |
| Boron | UK |
| BP | UK |
| Venezuela | |
| Futura | FIN |
| Red Rooster | Canada |
| Netherlands | |
| Sohio | UK |
| Standard | UK |
| France |
Now, along with the obvious reasons for not wanting to do business with Citgo, I prefer not to get my gas from Shell due to their total reliance on Middle East oil. And, I don’t like Total due to their involvement and meddling when the US attempted to get France to support us in Iraq. And, I’m not too pleased with Exxon for profiting in excess at the expense of the consumer. That only leaves about 80% of the vendors to choose from. I’m not going to cry for those local vendors getting hurt right at this moment because they can’t sell Citgo or whatnot, they can switch suppliers easy enough. Yeah I know, there’s time and expense involved, but this buy-American sentiment has been around a while and it doesn’t seem to be going away. When you’re in sales, it’s your job to give the people what they want. If you don’t, someone else will.
2 Comments »
on 03 Oct 2006 at 4:21 pm 1.Mick Gregory said …
I’m glad there are still some concerned Americans around, Mr. Moon. Please look at this site sadbastards.wordpress for more info on Chavez and his political tool, Citgo. It’s worse than you know.
LATE LAST YEAR, 16 U.S. congressmen voiced their approval for Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Representatives Barney Frank, John Conyers, Chaka Fattah, Jan Schakowsky, Jose Serrano, and others complained in a letter to President Bush that the United States was not adequately protecting Chavez against a groundswell of internal opposition to his increasingly authoritarian rule–an upsurge that might lead to his ouster. Elected to power in 1998, Lt. Col. Chavez has hijacked democracy in Venezuela and is openly moving the country toward totalitarianism. Beyond Venezuela’s borders, he celebrates, protects, and does business with terrorists.
A day after the September 11 terrorist attacks, President Chavez declared that “The United States brought the attacks upon itself, for their arrogant imperialist foreign policy.” Chavez also described the U.S. military response to bin Laden as “terrorism,” claiming that he saw no difference between the invasion of Afghanistan and the September 11 terrorist attacks.
While the United States considers Saddam Hussein a threat to world peace, Chavez has hailed Saddam as his “brother” and business “partner.” In the past two years Chavez has continued to cultivate relationships with the governments listed in the State Department’s roll of state sponsors of terrorism–he has been particularly vocal in his support for the Iranian regime.
Last December a high-level Venezuelan military defector gave sworn testimony that terrorist links exist between al Qaeda and the Chavez government. The defector, President Chavez’s personal pilot, alleges that one operation involved the transfer of close to $1 million in cash to Osama bin Laden.– According to a report in the Weekly Standard.
on 03 Oct 2006 at 6:32 pm 2.Moonage
said …
I couldn’t find that article on SadBastard, but I did find it elsewhere.
And, I’m gonna post that letter as well. Thanks for the reminder.