All of you really need to take a crash course on the workings of oil & gas companies.  As one writer previosly stated, when you buy gasoline from a station, you have absolutely no way of knowing the source of the crude from which the gasoline was produced.  DO YOUR RESEARCH. CITGO service stations aren’t even owned by CITGO.  The sign that you see is a trademark/logo, and most stations that carry a gas station logo have a license to display that logo. The only people you are going to be hurting by avoiding those stations are the station owners and their families. They are the 100% owners of those stations, not CITGO or the other big name O&G;companies. Don’t take my word for it, stop in and ask a CITGO station operator who owns the station.  There is absolutely no excuse for ignorance.  There is one site that you might want to visit before posting junk comments. Go to http://www.snopes.com.  They actually do the research for you.  The comments about Petro Express being a CITGO company is posted there. You will find that someone is way off base on that one.  Petro Express has never been owned by CITGO.  Happy researching, for those of you who care about what you write.

I back up what “mari” says its true. After the oil strike of 2002-2003 by PDVSA employees who were later fired, over 23,000 of them who knew the oil industry and administration of it, the production has declined and some of the refineries have caught fire burning up the “cracking ovens” due to excessive heat.
Chavez has brought in Iranians and Lybians to run part of the refineries, but they do not speak Spanish or English, and what is worse they disdain “industrial safetty rules” labeling them as “Imperialistic ways”. They are so anti American that they also disregard their own safety in that respect. That is the new mentality of the PDVSA worker and its “allies”. What they value most is that you must be red from top to bottom, which has also caused road accidents with with the “22 wheelers” that distribute gasoline, since these drivers do not know how to drive such volume of weight on a highway, spilling gasoline and chemicals on the open roads. Any news media here covering such facts is “labeled” by the Chavez regime as “distortion of news” or “media war tactics”.

MeAmerican ---- that is funny. I am sure that he will start a whole new controversy with the donkey symbol. Dems will not be happy.

The company I work for lost over 80 billion dollars in assets when Chavez took over the oil fields a few years ago. But, putting that aside, we need to look at other things that the money from Citgo profits is going to support. Also since Amercians are starting to shun Citgo, they have changed the name on many stations to Petro Express I believe. So we need to avoid buying from Petro Express also. Russia is building an AK-47 factory for him. Iranians are running his refiners. We need to all take a stand on this, and not support countries that are openly denouncing the United States. But, I do think the donkey would make a better statement.But, this is Amercia and Mr. McCombs does have a right to free speach. Just ask the President of Iran.