Will you Boycott Citgo in order to deny Hugo Chavez Money?

Answer 1

Absolutely. Support the movement http://citgoboycott.org

Answer 2

Boycott Citgo? No way. I've been going to Citgo as often as possible since I found out last year that Citgo=Venezuelan Oil. Chavez is a blowhard, I'll grant you that, but I loved his attack on Spoiled Baby Bush at the U.N.

When you buy Citgo you are
(a) pissing on Bush/Cheney/Rummy and their evil regime.
(b) boycotting Big Oil in America
(c) boycotting the middle east.

A winning trifecta!

Answer 3

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's products will continue to find buyers whether or not they're purchased by Americans.

Answer 4

Chavez is playing both ends against the middle in the U.S., in an attempt to win support from our liberals and weaken our nation.

Thanks for your input "Gethsemenerose", but before Citco in Houston suffers, along with all the retailers, they will just be sold off to other companies, and most people will continue to live their lives pretty much unchanged. Sure, some stations will close, but that's the breaks of the game in a capitalist society. Nobody promised you a rose garden, just one where you can stand tall and breathe in some FREEDOM.

(Doesn't "mmred rod" appear to have a problem?)

Answer 5

I stopped buy Citgo gas over a year ago.
I wonder if liberals who love Chavez will now do all their business with Citgo?

Answer 6

nope. he's already made it clear that he's wanting to stop doing business with the us anyway, so why would he care?
if u did boycott citgo you would be hurting your local station owners far more than him. also, citgo is even headquartered in texas, so a large boycot would hurt people there as well.

Answer 7

Yes by all means I will boycott Citgo

Answer 8

And the independent gas companies that buy from Citgo and resell? How will you know?

Answer 9

Yes

Answer 10

I feel that political connections with Hugo will have terroristic cells come to them for financial help and also conspiratorial plans, which will then be fed to the CIA by these same political connections.