Citgo - I Did Not Know That

[digitaldiscipline]

"[Citgo] is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos 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."

Comments

[arcsine.livejournal.com]

I wondered why gas was so cheap there... (http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

What really intrigues me about that list is Norway - they have a tremendous amount of state income from petroleum, and their prices are among the highest reported.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons that Citgo prices tend to be a lot more stable than other brands these days...

[xany.livejournal.com]

folks here in Boston are up in arms, and a large segment are clamoring to have the Citgo sign taken down.

uhmm... excuse me? it's a fucking landmark!!!

[arcsine.livejournal.com]

Because their taxes suck ass for no good reason (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/weekinreview/17bawer.html?ex=1271390400&en=44ea05b3e068feb5&ei=5090). Well, I guess I know why Norwegian music sucks so bad now.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Actually, they probably do have good reasons, including the highest per-capita GDP and literacy rates in the world. Their social services are amazing.

If you want to be a (chilly) socialist, it's the bee's knees, I guess.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

That would make sense. I don't tend to see many of them down here (I usually hit the BP near my house, because it's the same price as the Sunoco, and I had positive interactions with the guys from BP I was in contact with during my gig in new orleans).

[etcet.livejournal.com]

People, in any group you can't kill with a single grenade, are morons. :-)

[arcsine.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least it's not Sweden. NOT AFRAID OF ESKIL!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

[Highly-Taxed] SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORDS!

[megiddo-lj.livejournal.com]

*waves hand*

if only it weren't so cold...

[arcsine.livejournal.com]

[megiddo-lj.livejournal.com]

Want Lingonberries!

[megiddo-lj.livejournal.com]

I see the Ikea thing isn't just me.

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Yeah, some of the largest corporations are actually foreign owned. Shell (Royal Dutch Shell), BP (British Petroleum), etc.

Even most of the time when you hear about new oil fields coming into play, it's usually a state government that sells the rights to three or four different companies. It's pretty rare nowadays that the rights to an entire field belongs to a single company -- even state owned ones.

Most of the countries that have the oil, don't have the skill or investment to make it themselves -- they have no choice but to bring in outsiders. And half the time the outsiders don't want to play ball because the don't want to finish and then find their assets seized (eg Venezuela).

[victorine.livejournal.com]

That's the USA for you. Free speech as long as we agree with what you're saying. Did he really say, "I can still smell the sulphur from when the devil was standing here..." I had to laugh at that.