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  • From: "LANT" <lynnann@newnorth.net>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] something of interest...
  • Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:31:40 -0600

Wow...this last digest I just got have links to EVERYTHING I've ever wanted
to know!!! thanks...now for something completely different....and veeerrrryyy
interesting...love and peace...lynnann

Subject: Chavez's Venezuela to directly aid Massachusetts poor...

One step in the right direction...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/22/venezuela.us.fuel.ap/index.html
Thousands of low-income Massachusetts residents will
receive
discounted home heating oil this winter under an
agreement signed
Tuesday with Venezuela, whose government is a
political adversary of
the Bush administration.

Citgo Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Venezuela's
state-owned oil
company, will supply oil at 40 percent below market
prices.

It will be distributed by two nonprofit organizations,
Citizens
Energy Corp. and the Massachusetts Energy Consumers
Alliance.

The agreement gives President Hugo Chavez's government
standing as a
provider of heating assistance to poor U.S. residents
at a time when
U.S. oil companies have been reluctant to do so and
Congress has
failed to expand aid in response to rising oil prices.

U.S. Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts, a
Democrat, met with
Chavez in August and helped broker the deal.

He said his constituents' needs for heating assistance
trump any
political points the Chavez administration can score.

"This is a humanitarian gesture," Delahunt said,
speaking after a
news conference with Venezuelan officials and others
outside the home
of a constituent in Quincy who will receive heating
aid.

Citgo is the Houston, Texas-based subsidiary of
Venezuela's state-
owned oil company and has about 13,500 independently
owned U.S. gas
stations.

It is offering Massachusetts more than 12 million
gallons of
discounted heating oil over the next four months,
starting in December.

The two nonprofit organizations will screen recipients
for financial
need and cooperate with oil distributors that will
make discounted
deliveries to qualifying homes and institutions, such
as homeless
shelters and hospitals.

Chavez proposed offering fuel directly to poor U.S.
communities
during a visit to Cuba in August.

He has said the aim is to bypass middlemen to reduce
costs for the
American poor -- a group he argues has been severely
neglected by
Bush's government.

Chavez has become one of Latin America's most vocal
critics of U.S.-
style capitalism, which he calls a major cause of
poverty.

U.S. officials accuse Chavez of endangering Venezuelan
democracy by
assuming ever greater powers.

During a short-lived 2002 coup against Chavez, the
U.S. government
promptly recognized the new leaders, who were soon
driven out amid a
popular uprising.




  • [permaculture] something of interest..., LANT, 11/27/2005

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