Recently, 7-Eleven convenient stores has decided to discontinue selling Citgo gas at their pumps. Citgo is owned and operated by Chavez, the dictator in Venezuela. Instead they will be buying their fuel from American owned company, Valero.
Chavez has being saber rattling giving strong anti-American speeches, including his last one at the UN two weeks ago. He has called President Bush the devil and an alcoholic and has threaten to dispose of our country's heritage. He has nurtured a strong alliance with the terrorist group Hezbollah which operates out Venezuela for over the last ten years.
7-Eleven spokesman Margaret Chabris said that, "Regardless of politics, we sympathize with many Americans' concern over derogatory comments about our country and its leadership recently made by Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez." (Breitbart.com)
And recently, Florida State Rep. Adam Hasner has expressed strongly that he doesn't think CITGO should be selling gasoline on the Florida Turnpike system.
Last month, Susser Holdings Corp of Corpus Christi, Texas, is radically downsizing its 18-year relationship with CITGO. And like 7-Eleven, they will be getting their gas from an American owned Valero.
Republican George Pataki, a potential 2008 presidential candidate, said he has had more than enough with the Venezuelan leader bad mouthing the American commander-in-chief.
"This person has no right coming to our country to criticize our president. He can take his cheap oil and do something for the poor people of Venezuela," said Pataki during an interview with Fox News.
When asked if he would patronize Citgo, the gas company owned by Petroleus de Venezuela, the state-run oil company, Pataki told Fox News, "I have no plans to." (CNSNews.com)