If You Were Poor and Cold, Would You Take?

Question

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In Alaska's native villages, the punishing winter cold is already coming through the walls of the lightly insulated plywood homes, many of the villagers are desperately poor, & heating-oil prices are among the highest in the nation.A few villages are refusing free heating oil from Venezuela, on the patriotic principle that no foreigner has the right to call their president "the devil." Residentspay more than $5 a gallon for oil — or at least $300 a month per household — to heat their homes along the wind-swept coast of the Bering Sea, where temperatures can dip to minus-15.,

Over the past two years, Citgo, the Venezuelan government's Texas-based oil subsidiary, has given millions of gallons of discounted heating oil to the poor in several states and cities — including New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine — in what is widely seen as an effort by Chavez to embarrass and irritate the U.S. government and make himself look good.

October 7, 2006About 150 native villages in Alaska have accepted money for heating oil from Citgo. The oil company does not operate in Alaska, so instead of sending oil, it is donating about $5.3 million to native nonprofit organizations to buy 100 gallons this winter for each of more than 12,000 households.
"When you have a dire need and it is a matter of survival for your people, it doesn't matter where, what country, the gift or donation comes from," said Virginia Commack, an elder in the arctic village of Ambler, an impoverished Eskimo community of 280 where residents are paying $7.25 a gallon for fuel.

Who cares where it comes from? Devil or not, if I were in dire straits I'd take this fuel.
Patriotism can only go so far.
I would bet Bush and his family and cronies won't freeze this winter. And I would further bet that Bush doesn't give a rats behind about these people.
Those that don't take that fuel are foolish

Answer 1

Well since this Administration doesn't care who is homeless or who freezes to death, I agree with them. I'd take it with no problem. It truly is a matter of survival, something this government cares nothing about.

Answer 2

YOU SAID
"Who cares where it comes from? Devil or not, if I were in dire straits I'd take this fuel.
Patriotism can only go so far.
I would bet Bush and his family and cronies won't freeze this winter. And I would further bet that Bush doesn't give a rats behind about these people.
Those that don't take that fuel are foolish"

are people that believe in God foolish? What about atheists?
What about those that don't buy from Walmart because of their hiring policies? What about those that only buy American made products?
just because YOU don't agree with some one else's convictions doesn't make them foolish-it makes them committed.

I am not in the position to chose whether to buy oil from Venz.---are you? or is this just a random gee they must be dumb, glad I'm not them kinda question?
I applaud their convictions and will keep them in my thoughts. Maybe if we all were more concerned as a nation about the good of the country we wouldn't ship jobs overseas in pursuit of the almighty dollar.
Just MY opinion

Answer 3

Interesting.

Answer 4

you take help where you can get it. The US government doesn't care, but thank God somebody else cares. Maybe Chavez is trying to prove a point.

Answer 5

I agree with you 100%. If you are poor and can get help from someone who cares who that someone is.

Answer 6

"Sticks & stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me." Based on this old saying, give me the heat everytime.

Answer 7

they should take the venuzuallan oil and tell washington to go to hell