Because they are dumping Chavez' Citgo gasoline:
DALLAS - 7-Eleven Inc. dropped Venezuela-owned Citgo as its gasoline supplier after more than 20 years as part of a previously announced plan by the convenience store operator to launch its own brand of fuel.
7-Eleven officials said Wednesday that the decision was partly motivated by politics.
Citgo Petroleum Corp. is a Houston-based subsidiary of Venezuela's state-run oil company and 7-Eleven is worried that anti-American comments made by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez might prompt motorists to fill-up elsewhere.
I haven't purchased Citgo gasoline for about a year now - and as long as that thug Chavez is dictator of Venezuela, I won't buy a drop of it. I'm very pleased that 7/11 is dropping it, and I hope that no other American gasoline retailer picks it up. Lets see how well Chavez does without American money.
Posted by Mark Noonan at September 28, 2006 08:46 AM
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Chavez loves to threaten us with cutting off his oil shipments, but on the other hand, loves all those $$ he gets from the sale of that oil. As I may have posted before, he is what Bush is accused of being - a crony of the oil industry who does not permit dissent among his own people.
This only underscores our need to develop that newly discovered oil field in the gulf as soon as technically feasible, to reduce our dependency on foreign oil and put downward pressure on the price (due to higher supply). Both will weaken Chavez, Ahmedinejad (or however it's spelled) and others who would love to have us, as the pun goes, over a barrel. And as an added bonus, this new discovery may allow us to (even further) postpone drilling in ANWR, thus giving us a break from the environmentalists and their paranoia.
Pardon my further digression, but I'm reminded of something else. Isn't it curious how environmentalists are scared out of their minds at the prospect that even one molecule of oil might be drilled out of ANWR, as if the extraction of that one molecule will immediately cause the excruciatingly painful death of every caribou within a 500-mile radius, but have no apparent problem whatsoever with the 25 million pounds of trash dropped by illegals crossing from Mexico into Arizona?
Posted by: Bigfoot at September 28, 2006 12:27 PM
"boycotting" a fungible commodity has no meaning in the real world.
SYLLABICATION: fun·gi·ble
PRONUNCIATION: fnj-bl
ADJECTIVE: 1. Law Returnable or negotiable in kind or by substitution, as a quantity of grain for an equal amount of the same kind of grain. 2. Interchangeable.
NOUN: Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. Often used in the plural.
ETYMOLOGY: Medieval Latin fungibilis, from Latin fung (vice), to perform (in place of).
OTHER FORMS: fungi·bili·ty —NOUN
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
petroleum is not french whine(sic), canadian vacations, nor michael moore dvd's.
Posted by: OhioOrrin at September 28, 2006 01:07 PM
Ummm, OhioOrrin.. ahem... they'd be buying the oil from someone else. So if Citgo makes no revenue, they would have to close. I realize that simple economics are beyond the grasp of most liberals, but that's what would happen.
Posted by: Art Patscheck at September 28, 2006 01:42 PM
sure hope everyone who wants to put Citgo out of business will hire their displaced employees -- those thousands of US citizen employees.
Posted by: Nate at September 28, 2006 08:14 PM
dearest art -
1st, I'm one of those unpredictable ohio indies; pro-biz, fiscally conservative, socially tolerant who votes issues not party labels. please remember what is said of assumptions.
2nd, if x (person or nation) boycotts any fungible commodity, then y buys it. x must then buy from an alternate source...which y used to buy from.
we're not the only outlet.
econ 101...when u made it.
Posted by: OhioOrrin at September 29, 2006 07:08 AM
dearest art -
1st, I'm one of those unpredictable ohio indies; pro-biz, fiscally conservative, socially tolerant who votes issues not party labels. please remember what is said of assumptions.
2nd, if x (person or nation) boycotts any fungible commodity, then y buys it. x must then buy from an alternate source...which y used to buy from.
we're not the only outlet.
econ 101...when u made it.
Posted by: OhioOrrin at September 29, 2006 07:14 AM
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Chavez loves to threaten us with cutting off his oil shipments, but on the other hand, loves all those $$ he gets from the sale of that oil. As I may have posted before, he is what Bush is accused of being - a crony of the oil industry who does not permit dissent among his own people.
This only underscores our need to develop that newly discovered oil field in the gulf as soon as technically feasible, to reduce our dependency on foreign oil and put downward pressure on the price (due to higher supply). Both will weaken Chavez, Ahmedinejad (or however it's spelled) and others who would love to have us, as the pun goes, over a barrel. And as an added bonus, this new discovery may allow us to (even further) postpone drilling in ANWR, thus giving us a break from the environmentalists and their paranoia.
Pardon my further digression, but I'm reminded of something else. Isn't it curious how environmentalists are scared out of their minds at the prospect that even one molecule of oil might be drilled out of ANWR, as if the extraction of that one molecule will immediately cause the excruciatingly painful death of every caribou within a 500-mile radius, but have no apparent problem whatsoever with the 25 million pounds of trash dropped by illegals crossing from Mexico into Arizona?
"boycotting" a fungible commodity has no meaning in the real world.
SYLLABICATION: fun·gi·ble
PRONUNCIATION: fnj-bl
ADJECTIVE: 1. Law Returnable or negotiable in kind or by substitution, as a quantity of grain for an equal amount of the same kind of grain. 2. Interchangeable.
NOUN: Something that is exchangeable or substitutable. Often used in the plural.
ETYMOLOGY: Medieval Latin fungibilis, from Latin fung (vice), to perform (in place of).
OTHER FORMS: fungi·bili·ty —NOUN
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
petroleum is not french whine(sic), canadian vacations, nor michael moore dvd's.
Ummm, OhioOrrin.. ahem... they'd be buying the oil from someone else. So if Citgo makes no revenue, they would have to close. I realize that simple economics are beyond the grasp of most liberals, but that's what would happen.
sure hope everyone who wants to put Citgo out of business will hire their displaced employees -- those thousands of US citizen employees.
dearest art -
1st, I'm one of those unpredictable ohio indies; pro-biz, fiscally conservative, socially tolerant who votes issues not party labels. please remember what is said of assumptions.
2nd, if x (person or nation) boycotts any fungible commodity, then y buys it. x must then buy from an alternate source...which y used to buy from.
we're not the only outlet.
econ 101...when u made it.
dearest art -
1st, I'm one of those unpredictable ohio indies; pro-biz, fiscally conservative, socially tolerant who votes issues not party labels. please remember what is said of assumptions.
2nd, if x (person or nation) boycotts any fungible commodity, then y buys it. x must then buy from an alternate source...which y used to buy from.
we're not the only outlet.
econ 101...when u made it.