http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html.

Where do you intend to set up the horse and buggy depots to carry our “asses” to and from work? Stop the imports from the 5th largest importer of crude oil to the U.S. and you better have a good plan, especially those of you who live up north where the winters are not so pleasant.

Keep in mind that CITGO’s heating oil program, implemented in partnership with Citizens Energy Corporation, was created in 2005 to help some of the poorest communities in the US.  Decreased supplies, from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, led to steep increases in fuel costs while cuts in the federal Heating Oil Assistance Program placed burdens on family budgets already stretched thin.  CITGO’s 11-15-06 through 03-14-07 program extended its heating oil to 16 states:  AL, CT, DE, DC, IN, ME, MD, MA, MI, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, VA and WI.  CITGO also provided discount oil directly to 163 Native American tribes in the states of Alaska, Maine, Minnesota and New York.  CITGO distributed this oil at a 40% discount from the delivery price.

CITGO is one of the sources of income to the Venezuelan treasury by which Chavez finances international terrorism and harbors a HEZBOLLAH branch office in Venezuela.

Posted by Soldier of Democracy

So why not encourage our government to impose an oil embargo against Venezuelan Crude which would halt distribution of products to Citgo stations, giving Citgo station owners an option out of their contracts?  Why do you want to place all the blame on independent American businesses who can’t do a thing about it?

This article is about boycotting Citgo but I’m not convinced that this is the right strategy or that its targeting the right people. 

IF you are going to boycott Citgo you have to do something to help the station owners.  Even if you aren’t buying Citgo gasoline you can still go to the station and buy stuff from the C-Store which has no connection at all to Chavez or Citgo’s earnings, but to put all the blame on Americans for something that is not under their control doesn’t sound like a respectable cause to me.

The Hess refinery on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands imports considerable amounts from Venezuela as well as from the bulk terminal on the Dutch island of St. Eustatia. That crude allegedly comes from North Sea sources. I wouldn’t however rule out Persian Gulf sources at that terminal. Hess may be guilty of refining Persian Gulf crude oil but they do not use their profits to trash US interests as is the case with Citgo

Good comments and research efforts, unfortunately some of Southeasterner’s facts are incorrect. Sunoco and Hess do not buy oil or refined gasoline from Persian Gulf sources. I will of course, continue to buy gasoline and whenever possible will buy it from terror free oil sources including Sunoco, Hess, Sinclair, County fair, Kwik Fill, Keystone and other Terror-Free Oil affiliated companies. You can find more information at http://www.terrorfreeoil.org
Posted by PersonalResponsability4myFreedom on 10/22/07

I’m using actual import data from the department of Energy and the company reported 10-k’s.  I’m not sure what your better source is because the linked website provides no information just personal assumptions.

In July alone Sunoco imported the following:
From To Quantity (thousand barrels)
Venezuela Marcus Hook, PA 578
Venezuela Marcus Hook, PA 552
Venezuela Philadelphia, PA 87
Venezuela Paulsboro, NJ 102
Venezuela Marcus Hook, PA 361
Venezuela Marcus Hook, Pa 63 (Isobutane)

In July Hess was the 2nd highest importer of Venezuelan Crude after Citgo bringing in over 9,736 barrels!

Thank you Mr. “leonidas” for your constructive participation. I was not aware that CITGO transferred its bank acounts to Paris and closed all US Bank Accounts. This has quite a few reasons:
1.- Preventting the Federal Government from freezing transfers to Russia o Bielorus in the purchase of weapons etc…
2.- Avoid tracking of funds towards enemies of the USA
3.- An economical strategy to shake up US Banks in subtracting those large amounts of money from them. -

4.- Zarkozy, France´s new president is “room mating” with Chavez on the Betancourt issue of the hostages being held by the Colombian drug trafficking communist guerrilla there known as FARC or ELN. International politics are playing a lot on that money transfer. Chavez does not care if it loses 2% less than having depositted in the USA since it is a move against US Economy.

We must thank Mr. John McCombs for that billboard sign expressing his American feelings, since it has put many of us to think and participate in a Continental debate about resources and the defense of democracy. Thank you all.