[quote]Tens of thousands of low-income Massachusetts residents will receive discounted home heating oil under an agreement signed Tuesday with Venezuela, a key supplier of U.S. oil imports whose government is a political adversary of the Bush administration.
The agreement would distribute oil from a subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company at 40 percent below market prices. It gives President Hugo Chavez’s government standing as a provider of heating assistance to poor U.S. citizens at a time when U.S. oil companies have been reluctant to do so. Meanwhile, Congressional efforts to expand aid in response to a spike in winter heating costs have failed.
U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, a Massachusetts Democrat who met with Chavez in August and helped broker the deal, said his constituents’ needs for heating assistance trump any political points the Chavez administration can score.[/quote]
boston.com (do an archive search for the full article: “Chavez heating oil poor”)
Chavez wins PR points and the Mass poor get heat. While it makes sense to seek oil assistance from the source, I am troubled that Mass looked to Chavez for help for its poor. I say this not because of Chavez’s anti-Bush rhetoric, but because this is another example of my country’s failure to properly assist its poorest citizens. What’s next, rice aid from China for under-funded school lunch programs?
The Kennedy Cartel has been reaping huge money off of their oil deals for years.
I don’t think Robert Kennedy, Jr. mentioned the 6 figure commission he receives each year in his last press confab on his “charity work.”
Arctic Oil, despite the name, is drilling in Texas and Oklahoma. Kenoil and Mokeen Oil - in 1985 Kennedy converted these two companies to royalty trusts, thus avoiding paying any corporate taxes, windfall or otherwise.
I’m not saying there is anything wrong with using the laws to ones advantage, just pointing out the possible hypocrisy.
Citizens Energy Corp. is a nonprofit organization. But the Kennedy family has extensive oil interests, author Peter Schweizer reveals in his best-selling new book “Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy.”
According to Schweizer, "oil deposits have generated tens of millions in profits for the Kennedy clan
Castro has never held anything against the American people, and offered help after Katrina, I recall.
I think this is a great move for many reasons, not least of all because it promotes understanding between different ‘systems’. :bravo:[/quote]
That must be why Castro allowed the Soviets to base ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads in Cuba, and why he encouraged the Soviets to launch them during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Castro has never held anything against the American people[/quote]
That must be why Castro emptied his prisons and mental institutions during the Mariel boatlift, and required boats carrying legitimate escapees to carry some of the murderers and psychos and to vouch for them when they reached the U.S.
:bravo: