Citgo = Chavez

Why connect the two?

The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A, the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. That's where Chavez is. And why boycott Citgo? Well, Chavez wants to bring down the U.S. government. And that the Citgo company helped pay for a pep rally in Harlem for Chavez.

The event, according to Foxnews, is one of a series designed to boost the Venezuelan leader's popularity in the U.S., was organized by Citgo, a Houston-based energy company that is owned and controlled by the Venezuelan government. Ain't that grand? Citgo used this event about their winter heating oil program where Citgo is in partnership with Citizens Energy, a program run by former U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy II, sells and distributes discounted home heating oil to low-income families. It wasn't too long ago that Chavez was talking about oil and poor people.

The plea came in a letter from a group of U.S. senators to nine big oil companies: With huge increases in winter heating bills expected, the letter read, we want you to donate some of your record profits to help low-income people cover those costs.

But the lawmakers received only one response. It came from Citgo Petroleum Corp., a company controlled by the Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez, a nettlesome adversary of the United States who has accused the Bush administration of plotting to assassinate him and invade his oil-rich country.

So, does this mean that if people boycott Citgo successfully and we have a bad winter and Citgo has to forego the heating oil program will boycotters end up racked with guilt?

Nah.

Michelle Malkin makes a note of the growing backlash to boycott Citgo,

Tons of readers are asking me for information about boycoting CITGO to protest sulfur-sniffing Hugo Chavez. Movement growing here and here. More here and here.

There are Citgo gas stations throughout the United States. Use Citgo's gas station locator, find the nearest Citgo station(s) and avoid it like the plague. Everytime you pump gas at a Citgo gas station, you are paying Chavez's dictatorship in Venezuela. Best to go to another gas station since you don't want to fund a kooky Socialist wanna-be-Islamofascist out of Venezuela.

Do you?

Although Snopes says it won't work...this boycott thing. Ah, right, Carnac the Magnificent.

Remember the pictures of Citgo and Chavez and how Citgo lines Chavez's pockets to try and take the U.S. government down.