[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Venezuela sending cheap oil to Massachusetts
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/22/venezuela.us.fuel.ap/index.html
Venezuela sending cheap oil to Massachusetts
Two nonprofit groups sign deal to aid low-income residents
Tuesday, November 22, 2005; Posted: 8:46 p.m. EST (01:46 GMT)
Joseph P. Kennedy II of Citizens Energy Corp. and other officials deliver oil
Tuesday to Quincy residents.
QUINCY, Massachusetts (AP) -- Thousands of low-income Massachusetts residents
will receive discounted home heating oil this winter under an agreement signed
Tuesday with Venezuela, whose government is a political adversary of the Bush
administration.
Citgo Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company,
will supply oil at 40 percent below market prices.
It will be distributed by two nonprofit organizations, Citizens Energy Corp.
and the Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance.
The agreement gives President Hugo Chavez's government standing as a provider
of heating assistance to poor U.S. residents at a time when U.S. oil companies
have been reluctant to do so and Congress has failed to expand aid in response
to rising oil prices.
U.S. Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts, a Democrat, met with Chavez in
August and helped broker the deal.
He said his constituents' needs for heating assistance trump any political
points the Chavez administration can score.
"This is a humanitarian gesture," Delahunt said, speaking after a news
conference with Venezuelan officials and others outside the home of a
constituent in Quincy who will receive heating aid.
Citgo is the Houston, Texas-based subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil
company and has about 13,500 independently owned U.S. gas stations.
It is offering Massachusetts more than 12 million gallons of discounted heating
oil over the next four months, starting in December.
The two nonprofit organizations will screen recipients for financial need and
cooperate with oil distributors that will make discounted deliveries to
qualifying homes and institutions, such as homeless shelters and hospitals.
Chavez proposed offering fuel directly to poor U.S. communities during a visit
to Cuba in August.
He has said the aim is to bypass middlemen to reduce costs for the American
poor -- a group he argues has been severely neglected by Bush's government.
Chavez has become one of Latin America's most vocal critics of U.S.-style
capitalism, which he calls a major cause of poverty.
U.S. officials accuse Chavez of endangering Venezuelan democracy by assuming
ever greater powers.
During a short-lived 2002 coup against Chavez, the U.S. government promptly
recognized the new leaders, who were soon driven out amid a popular uprising.
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4461946.stm
Last Updated: Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 02:08 GMT
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Venezuela gives US cheap oil deal
The deal will help tens of thousands of poorer Massachusetts
residents
Officials from Venezuela and Massachusetts have signed a deal to
provide cheap heating oil to low-income homes in the US state.
The fuel will be sold at about 40% below market prices to thousands
of homes over the winter months.
Local congressman William Delahunt described the deal as "an
expression of humanitarianism at its very best".
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is one of the Bush
administration's biggest adversaries in Latin America.
He first announced his plan to provide cheap heating oil directly
to lower-income Americans while visiting Cuba in August.
'About people'
The deal involves shipping some 45m litres of heating oil from
Venezuela to Massachusetts at a discounted rate via Citgo Petroleum, a US-based
subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company.
At a signing ceremony in Massachusetts, Mr Delahunt - a Democrat
who helped broker the deal - rejected suggestions that it was politically
motivated.
"This is a gesture about people," the Associated Press news agency
quotes him as saying.
"It has nothing to do, as far as I'm concerned, with anything
between the Bush administration and the Chavez administration."
Talks are under way to agree a similar deal to provide discounted
heating oil from Venezuela to low-income residents in New York's Bronx
district.
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