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September 22, 2006
Citgo No Go?

Up until yesterday, I was unaware that Citgo is wholly owned by Venezuela's state-owned PDVSA. After Hugo Chavez' lunatic rantings about Bush being Satan and smelling sulphur at the UN podium at Turtle Bay this week, some CQ readers might find that fact ... interesting.

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Mark Tapscott says that we might want to buy our gasoline elsewhere. My radio partner Mitch Berg notes that the Left wants us to buy all of our gas from Citgo.

I'm not much on boycotts, especially with gas providers, because like any commodity, the market is fungible. I have to buy it from someone, and the supply follows the demand and prices follow both, so the only one who usually loses are the independent station owners. However, in this case, it's not a protest about gas prices in general but against a business owner (Chavez) who went out of his way to personally insult our Head of State, from which all Americans should take offense. For me, BP Amoco and SuperAmerica look better and better all the time.

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Posted by Ed Morrissey at September 22, 2006 6:52 AM

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