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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Citgo moves from Baseball Hall of Fame to Kennedys for propaganda

"Citgo sign inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame", 7/18/06 (MLB.com), article details intensive 5 year promotional program between MLB and the Venezuelan oil company headed by Hugo Chavez. If MLB deifies a dictator, why shouldn't the Kennedys? Headlines this week drew attention to Citgo's oil program for low income people in the US and the administration of same by Joseph P. Kennedy's 'not for profit' (tax exempt) company Citizens Energy. The program is actually not for poor people but more to grease the skids with reliable political pawns advancing Chavez' concerns: However, reality has a tendency to get in the way of press events for Citgo and Citizens Energy Corporation such as the scenes of Joe Kennedy driving up to house in a Citgo truck to deliver 40% cheaper heating oil from his “not-for-profit energy company.”...
  • First, Citizens Energy Corporation is not the organization that is directly involved with the program. Rather, one has to first look to a holding company,
which is a for-profit and wholly owned subsidiary of Citizens Energy’s called Citizens Enterprises Corporation: first, eighty-six percent of Second, among the nine companies that it manages is Citizens Program Corporation, which directly handles the Citgo heating oil program. This company went from having almost no assets in 2004 to recording the purchase and later sale of over two million dollars worth of oil in 2005. Then in the first half of 2006 which they sold for over sixteen million dollars. Now if you take the average cost of home heating oil (which was $2.43 per gallon), and the amount of $6,463,078 that Citizens Programs Corporation claimed to have spent on this program, the greatest number of gallons they could have been provided was 2,657,702. This is significantly less than the forty million gallons Citgo claims to have provided. If this amount was supplied to the 170,000 families that Kennedy claims to have helped, it would mean that each of those homes would have received only 15.6 gallons (or 14.6 gallons if Citgo is to be believed).
  • Interestingly, the numbers provided by Citgo offer a breakdown by State on the number households aided and total gallons involved.
That’s also the most oil delivered to a single state. There are a number of fundamental questions that need to be answered about this program. Among them are:

Where and how did the additional thirty-seven million gallons of heating oil, representing more than ninety-million dollars based on the average price, come from that Citgo claims to have distributed, when their point of distribution claims to have only been involved in a six million dollar program?

  • But this program is not about the buying, or selling of oil, or math or home heating.
After all this program's purpose is the same as every other discounted oil program run by Chavez throughout this hemisphere and now in Europe. This alone is bad enough. However, when one adds in that this is being done by a foreign nation that is openly hostile towards the United States and which is also a close ally of two state sponsors of terrorism (Cuba and Iran) it should raise alarm bells.
  • It is time the Kennedy family and their allies provide answers to the American people about what they and their partner Chavez are really up to, and
Venezuelan Oil program administered by Caroline Kennedy cousin, 1/5/09
  • Top photo from CaptainsQuarters

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