TV Schedule

CITGO hands out energy efficient light bulbs in US

  2. mundosanto
  3. related topics
Venezuela's CITGO Petroleum Corp. is handing out energy efficient light bulbs across the U.S., despite political tensions between the two nations.

Houston-based CITGO is teaming with nonprofit Citizen's Energy Corp. of Boston to hold workshops on energy conservation.

They plan to distribute nearly 500,000 small fluorescent bulbs in 11 cities.

The program kicks off in Houston Thursday, two days after it began in Washington.

The companies joined in 2005 to bring Venezuelan heating oil to low-income U.S. households. Critics alleged that President Hugo Chavez was attempting to spread his leftist ideals.

Chavez often threatens to cut off oil shipments to the U.S. But Venezuela remains its fifth biggest supplier.
mundosanto

5 responses // CITGO hands out energy efficient light bulbs in US

  • Hope this spreads across the country
    recommended by  Marilynn_Murray
    aditijjoshi
  • That damned Chavez. Our government keeps trying to kill him and he embarrasses us by giving us heating oil and light bulbs. If he would just give Big Oil his country's oil we would be happy to let him alone. What the Hell the people in Venezuela have always been poor, they don't need the schools, hospitals, or housing he builds for them with the profits from their oil.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Everything is part of his propaganda to give a good international image.

    Let me tell you something, in Caracas we have only one public morgue, is located in a neighborhood called "Bello Monte", with the always increasing crime in the city we have an average of 40 killed every week, the morgue in all this years have never being modernized, updated, not even well maintained, the transportation unit are all old only two of them work because the same employes repair them.

    There are millions of complaints from the neighbors to the government because in all the surroundings of the place you can actually feel the horrible smell of the decomposing bodies because most of the fridges to keep the bodies are damaged.

    Meanwhile Chavez is around the world building houses in Bolivia, giving oil for free to Fidel Castro, and giving out bulbs in USA.

    Like those I can give you thousand of cases only in Caracas.

    All this when we have the highest oil prices in the history of our country and a surplus of three times the budget planified for the whole year.
    mundosanto
  • You think it will be better if we manage to kill him and put a puppet in his place? We put Hussein in power, that turned out well for the Iraqi people didn't it? He would still be there except he took the oil away from Big Oil. The poor people in Venezula are benefitting from Chavez's programs and they seem to love him. The rich people aren't crazy about him, but their children have always had schools, hospitals, and decent housing. It looks to me like he does more good than harm.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Well talking about puppets guess who is the puppet of Fidel Castro, but you really have to live there to understand what happen, is very easy have an opinion based in some internet research in a confortalbe chair without living the facts with your own skin.

    I scaped that cage of animals called Venezuelan government.
    mundosanto

Add your response

Login/Registration is required to add a response.