Heating Oil Puts Chavez In Hot Water ... ?
Some Americans have decided to spurn Chavez' offer of cheap heating oil:

From AnchorageDailyNews:

Leaders from four Western Alaska villages have rejected an offer of free heating oil from a Venezuelan- owned company because that nation's president this month called President Bush "a devil" and made other inflammatory comments about the United States.

"Despite the critical need for fuel in our region, the Unangan (Aleut) people are Americans first, and we cannot support the political agenda attached to this donation," read a statement from Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association released late Thursday

From the Ledger-Enquirer, out of Columbus:

BOSTON - For 42 years, Agnes Crosson has lived in the same three-bedroom house in Quincy, Mass., where she's often visited by her 14 grandchildren. Heating her high-ceiling home during New England's long, cold winters has become increasingly expensive for the former social worker.

Enter Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Last winter, Crosson enrolled in a heating oil program backed by CITGO Petroleum, controlled by the Venezuelan government, to fill her 250-gallon heating oil tank. She saved $200 on the purchase.

Despite the savings, Crosson is having second thoughts about re-enrolling this year after reading about Chavez's speech last week at the U.N. General Assembly. Chavez called President Bush "the devil" and U.S. policies "genocidal"

A M Mora y Leon has an excellent analysis and round-up of how the dropping of Citgo by 7/11 will affect Caracas ... but the CEO of Citgo says they meant to drop 7/11 all along ...

Photo from WFAA

Crossposted at RightWingThinking, and WhizBangBombSquad.  ¶ 8:05 AM