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7 Eleven Drops Citgo Gas

Happy GuyHappy Guy Member Posts: 677 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2006 in General Discussion
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060927/7_eleven_citgo.html?.v=5

I guess Danny Glover wont be shopping at 7-11 anymore

Comments

  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932
    edited November -1
    Cudo's to 7-11, now they need to fire all of their Venezuelan help.[:D]
  • elkoholicelkoholic Member Posts: 5,130
    edited November -1
    Better late then never....
  • mrseatlemrseatle Member Posts: 15,467 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A spokeswoman for Dallas-based 7-Eleven said its 20-year contract with Citgo Petroleum Corp. ends next week.
  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I don't know if it's a nationwide contract, but the Navy Exchange at Oceana is CITGO. I have to go to Virginia Beach next week. I'm still debating myself whether to buy gas at the Navy Exchange.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think I will go buy some gas at 7-11 as soon as they complete the switch just to show my support in their decision to drop citgo.
  • Sav99Sav99 Member Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by cartod
    Cudo's to 7-11, now they need to fire all of their Venezuelan help.[:D]


    But not all Venezuelans. Some of my favorite people are from Venezuela.

    Magglio Ordonez

    Carlos Guillen

    Placido Polanco
    [:D][:D]
  • MVPMVP Member Posts: 23,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    wasn't Lucys husband Ricky Ricardo a venuezalean?
  • spanielsellsspanielsells Member Posts: 12,498
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by MVP
    wasn't Lucys husband Ricky Ricardo a venuezalean?
    Not even close. He was Cuban.
  • rob223rob223 Member Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Venezuelan Dictator Vows To Bring Down U.S. Government

    Venezuelan government is sole owner of Citgo Oil Company



    Venezuela Dictator Hugo Chavez has vowed to bring down the U.S. government. Chavez, president of Venezuela, told a TV audience: "Enough of imperialist aggression; we must tell the world: down with the U.S. empire. We have to bury imperialism this century."

    The guest on his television program, beamed across Venezuela, was Cindy Sheehan, the antiwar activist. Also, Chavez recently had as his guest Harry Belafonte, who called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world."

    Chavez is pushing a socialist (Marxist) revolution and has a close alliance with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

    Regardless of your feelings about the war in Iraq, or your feelings about our President and his political affiliation, the issue here is that we have a socialist dictator vowing to bring down the government of the U.S., and he is using our money to achieve his goal!

    The Venezuelan government, run by dictator Chavez, is the sole owner of Citgo <http://www.citgo.com/AboutCITGO.jsp&gt; Gas Company. Sales of products at Citgo stations send money back to Chavez to help him in his vow to bring down our government.

    Take Action.

    Please decide that you will NOT be shopping at a Citgo station Why should U.S. citizens who love freedom be financing a dictator who has vowed to take down our government?

    Very important, please forward this to your friends and family. Most of them don't know that Citgo is owned by the Venezuelan government.

    Effective March 1st 2006, Continental and Delta Airlines can not fly into Venezuela, and American Airlines flights are restricted.


    Bill Edgy

    Manager of National Integrator Sales

    Unex Manufacturing, Inc.

    (888) 707-7726 - Phone

    (888) 473-2282 - Fax

    (912) 223-5505 - Cell

    bedgy@unex.com - E-mail
  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by spanielsells
    quote:Originally posted by MVP
    wasn't Lucys husband Ricky Ricardo a venuezalean?
    Not even close. He was Cuban.



    don't you mean cooban
  • Slow_HandSlow_Hand Member Posts: 2,835
    edited November -1
    How'd you like the picture of Chavez with his arm around the smiling - and painfully obnoxious - Cindy Sheehan? I guess she figures "bringing down the U.S. Government" is equitable payback for her son's sacrifice in Iraq. I can't help but think that her son is tossing and turning in his grave over his mother's behavior.
  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sure seems good that a large American Company still holds regard for this great company.
  • zipperzapzipperzap Member Posts: 25,057
    edited November -1
    It's silly - ain't gonna hurt the Venezuelans A TALL!

    ... China's looking for more oil sources ... it'd be easier for them than drilling off Cuba - which they are going to do directly - look out for higher gas prices if the Venezuelans
    go their own way![8D]
  • TexasVetTexasVet Member Posts: 2,847 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "It's silly - ain't gonna hurt the Venezuelans A TALL"..

    Sure it will Zip, think about it -- aren't we a lot closer to the source than China? Costs more to ship, no matter who's paying the freight!

    Besides, it's the principle of what 7-11's doing; they used to own Citgo -- and now are denying Chavez an outlet he has taken for granted.

    I predict that more and more companies will distance themselves from that crazy. Pat Robertson got it right about Chavez.
  • mateomasfeomateomasfeo Member Posts: 27,143
    edited November -1
    I had a Venezuelan for dinner the other night.


    Kinda tough and stringy.
  • kristovkristov Member Posts: 6,633
    edited November -1
    This only means that Southland (7-11) won't be selling Citgo branded gasoline. It does not mean that Citgo is out of the retail motor fuel market nor does it mean the crude from Venezuela is no longer going to be imported into the US and refined. Venezuela is one of our largest suppliers of crude oil and the amount of crude that we import from Chavez excedes Citgo's ability to refine by a large margin. As a result of this imbalance, vast amounts of Venezuelan crude is refined at other facilities and sold as branded motor fuel by those refineries. There are PLENTY of independent gasoline stations out there who are always looking for fuel and Citgo won't have any trouble finding a ready market for it's product here in the United States.
  • zr700zr700 Member Posts: 2,430 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by MVP
    I think I will go buy some gas at 7-11 as soon as they complete the switch just to show my support in their decision to drop citgo.


    NOT! 7/11 is anti-gun [xx(]
  • FEENIXFEENIX Member Posts: 10,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by zr700
    quote:Originally posted by MVP
    I think I will go buy some gas at 7-11 as soon as they complete the switch just to show my support in their decision to drop citgo.


    NOT! 7/11 is anti-gun [xx(]


    Really! Most people I know that works in 7-11 carry guns [}:)].
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