Sorry to see Citgo suspending low-income oil program
Venezuela’s Citgo suspends heating oil program for U.S. poor
Venezuela’s Citgo Petroleum is suspending a program that provides discounted home heating oil to lower-income residents in U.S. communities, an energy group announced Monday.The global economic slowdown and falling oil prices have forced Citgo to re-evaluate its social programs and indefinitely suspend the heating oil program, said Citizens Energy Corporation chairman Joseph P. Kennedy II, in a written statement.
Citizens Energy and Joseph P. Kennedy along with Citgo were doing some really great things providing this program to those in need. I’m sorry the economy is also hurting the good people as well as the ones who deserve it like the big three automakers and all of the financial institutions.
Kennedy does have one suggestion however:
Kennedy encouraged people to write to Chavez “to tell him the stories you have told me of the difference the generous donation of heating oil has made to so many of our fellow Americans.”
Not too long ago I was at an open house for Democracy in Action when I ran into some people from the Venezuela Information Office. Maybe people could contact them as well?
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