Buy CITGO and no other gas.

[AP]

CITGO uses its profits to build schools and hospitals and to pay workers good wages. (It's owned by the Venezuelan gov't.) No other oil company does that.

Shell is destroying Nigeria.

[katmondoo]

1. I gave back my Amoco card in 2000

I have been buying from Citco ever since. I am glad to find out I made a good choice. Thanks

[DuaneBidoux]

2. I posted the other thing. Sorry to hear about Shell (which I recommended)

I did so based on the link Boycott Bush

<http://www.boycottbush.net/consumers.htm>

I believe you however. As I said, I don't think you're going to find an innocent corporation. It's an oxymoran. Unfortunately I'm pretty sure we don't have CITGO where I live (Houston) and I guess that Shell would still be the lesser of two evils. As much as I hate what virtually all corporations are doing to countries like Nigeria I'm still going to stay focused on getting rid of our own Hitler before we move on. Without a progressive American government most of the rest of the world isn't going to stand a chance anyway.

[AP]

4. KEN SARO WIWA AND 8 OGONI PEOPLE EXECUTED: BLOOD ON SHELL'S HANDS

London--10 November 1995--The blood of Ken Saro-Wiwa will permanently stain the name of Shell, Greenpeace said today in response to the news that Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni were, according to widespread rumours, hanged this morning in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

"Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged today for speaking out against the environmental damage to the Niger Delta caused by Shell Oil through its 37 years of drilling in the region. Ken Saro Wiwa was campaigning for what Greenpeace considers the most basic of human rights: the right for clean air, land and water. His only crime was his success in bringing his cause to international attention," said Thilo Bode, Executive Director of Greenpeace International.

Greenpeace warned that any protest in the Niger Delta today, non violent or otherwise, would likely be met with military force and further massacres. Bode appealed to General Sani Abacha to let the Ogoni people voice their grief without fear of violence and further deaths.

Shell's call for "quiet diplomacy" in the 11th hour following the confirmation of the death sentence by the Nigerian Ruling Council has a hollow ring. Shell had ample opportunity to demonstrate concern over the 17 months of Ken's incarceration and trial. They chose to maintain their cosy relationship with the military dictatorship to secure oil profits rather than condemn, the brutal and unjust arrest and later sentencing of non-violent environmental campaigners.

http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/ken/murder.html

[aquart]

3. A government owns its own energy supply?

And uses it for the benefit of its people?

Now there's a concept that has completely eluded us. Can you imagine? The resources of America used for all Americans instead of a tiny, privileged few?

Oh, the horror.

[AP]

6. Thus the attempted coups...;

[nostalgicaboutmyfutr]

5. Around here Citgo is associated with 7-11....

Any problems with 7-11??

[AP]

7. That's right ... Venezuelan gov't wons something like a 5th or 3rd of

the 7.11s in the US>

[Coyote_Bandit]

8. Around Here Citgo is Associated with Unemployment

They are in the process of leaving JOklahoma and moving to Houston.

[AP]

11. We're lucky they aren't HQ'd in Caracas.

[DuaneBidoux]

9. See my original post-just changed the top of the thread based on your info

But what if there is no CITCO where I live?

[AndyTiedye]

10. There Isn't any Citgo Out Here

[Moderator]

12. Locking.....

Please continue the discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1360128


Thank you.


DU Moderator