2006-09-28 13:59
digitaldiscipline
"[Citgo] is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of PetrĂ³leos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela."
[ from http://www.citgo.com/AboutCITGO.jsp & http://www.citgo.com/AboutCITGO/PDVSAprofile.jsp ]
Whether this encourages or dissuades you from shopping there is up to you. I got the info as part of a rather vitriolic bit of pro-Bush jingoism, which earned the sender a brief reply along the lines of, "It's kind of hard to call GWB a 'terrorist' from over here, but I can think of a lot of different ways to call the guy an asshole and political fuckup."
[ from http://www.citgo.com/AboutCITGO.jsp & http://www.citgo.com/AboutCITGO/PDVSAprofile.jsp ]
Whether this encourages or dissuades you from shopping there is up to you. I got the info as part of a rather vitriolic bit of pro-Bush jingoism, which earned the sender a brief reply along the lines of, "It's kind of hard to call GWB a 'terrorist' from over here, but I can think of a lot of different ways to call the guy an asshole and political fuckup."