Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Monday his government plans to sell as much as 66,000 barrels per day of heating fuel from its U.S. Citgo refinery to poor communities in the United States.No intermediaries? How's Jesse going to get his cut? And I wonder if ole Hugo is going to drive the delivery truck himself?
The offer, made after populist Chavez held talks with U.S. civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, would represent 10 percent of the 660,000 bpd of refined products processed by Citgo. The deals would cut consumer costs by direct sales.
Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez said officials were still working on the details on how the oil would be sold from Citgo, a unit of the state oil firm PDVSA.
"We are going to direct as much as 10 percent of the production, that means 66,000 barrels, without intermediaries, to poor communities, hospitals, religious communities, schools," Chavez told reporters at a press conference.
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
One old media whore meets another!
No, not Al Sharpton and Cindy Sheehan. I'm talking Jesse Jackson and Hugo Chavez - Venezuela to sell cut-price heating oil to U.S. poor:
