e mail I received

Sister Alvear · #1 02-29-2008, 01:30 PM

IN ORLANDO LAST WEEK, AT A CITGO STATION REGULAR WAS PRICED AT $2.82 PER GALLON. THERE WERE NO CUSTOMERS. HOWEVER, ACROSS THE STREET WHERE I FUELED IT WAS SELLING FOR $2.85 PER GALLON AND ALL PUMPS THERE HAD CARS WAITING TO FUEL.
Have you noticed how the Citgo signs have disappeared in the past 7-8 months?
Very clever move by Chavez. But guess what CITGO IS CHANGING ITS NAME TO? this is serious Americans...make sure you read.
NEWS FLASH:

Chavez is NOW getting a Russian Weapons Factory built by Putin. The RUSSIANS are building an AK-47 Kalashnikov Assault Rifle factory in Venezuela to
give armament support to Communist Rebel groups throughout the Americas Chavez NOW has IRANIANS operating his oil refineries in Venezuela for him.

It is likely only a matter of time, if not already, before Chavez has Iranian built LONG RANGE missiles, with a variety of warhead types aimed at.... Guess Who?

CITGO is NOW in the process of Changing its name to PETRO EXPRESS due to the loss of gasoline sales in the USA due to the recent publicity of ownership by Chavez of Venezuela.

Every dollar you spend with CITGO or PETRO EXPRESS gasoline will be used against you, your basic human rights, and your freedoms. He will start wars here in the Americas that will probably be the death of millions.

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT because Chavez is starting to feel the loss of revenue from his holdings. HE OWNS CITGO. This is a very important move that everyone should be aware of.

ANNOUNCED JUST RECENTLY, CITGO, BEING AWARE THAT SALES ARE DOWN DUE TO U.S. CUSTOMERS NOT WANTING TO BUY FROM "CITGO-CHAVEZ," HAS STARTED TO
CHANGE THE NAME OF SOME OF THEIR STORES TO: "PETRO EXPRESS."
DO NOT BUY FROM "PETRO EXPRESS" EITHER!!! "PETRO EXPRESS" IS ALSO 100% OWNED BY "CHAVEZ."

KEEP THIS MEMO GOING SO THAT EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING. BOYCOTT "CITGO" AND "PETRO EXPRESS."

MAKE SURE THIS IS PASSED ON TO EVERYONE IN YOUR E-MAIL LIST IN THE UNITED STATES AND OUTSIDE OF AMERICA

Sister Alvear · #2 02-29-2008, 01:32 PM

I am very busy today but thought you all might like to play James Bond...ha....love you all.

DividedThigh · #3 02-29-2008, 01:39 PM

havent been using citgo for 3 years for that very reason, dt bond , james bond, licensed to kill, lol

Praxeas · #4 02-29-2008, 07:16 PM

Chavez is an idiot, but I don't put stock in emails like this. They usually mix truth with error to generate sensationalism....kind reminds me of some of our dear posters

Sister Alvear · #5 02-29-2008, 07:18 PM

he may be an idiot in your country...but he reigns in his...

Praxeas · #6 02-29-2008, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

he may be an idiot in your country...but he reigns in his...

If I lived there he would still be an idiot to me sister :-)

BTW NOT everyone there loves Chavez.

pelathais · #7 03-01-2008, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

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ANNOUNCED JUST RECENTLY, CITGO, BEING AWARE THAT SALES ARE DOWN DUE TO U.S. CUSTOMERS NOT WANTING TO BUY FROM "CITGO-CHAVEZ," HAS STARTED TO
CHANGE THE NAME OF SOME OF THEIR STORES TO: "PETRO EXPRESS."
DO NOT BUY FROM "PETRO EXPRESS" EITHER!!! "PETRO EXPRESS" IS ALSO 100% OWNED BY "CHAVEZ."

KEEP THIS MEMO GOING SO THAT EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING. BOYCOTT "CITGO" AND "PETRO EXPRESS."

MAKE SURE THIS IS PASSED ON TO EVERYONE IN YOUR E-MAIL LIST IN THE UNITED STATES AND OUTSIDE OF AMERICA

That's alarming news about the Russian weapons factory going in. But the Citgo story is a bit more complex. According to this site Petro Express is a company headquartered in Charlotte, NC, and is dumping Citgo as their exclusive gasoline supplier.

I remember when 7-11 used to sell Citgo gas around here. The pumps and the islands all had Citgo signage and you would have thought that you were at a gas station called "Citgo" if it were for the fact that you were in a 7-11 parking lot. When the Southland Corp. and 7-11 dumped Citgo all those signs came down.

Basically Petro Express is doing the same thing that 7-11 did. I wonder if one of their competitors wasn't behind this email campaign. The following is from snopes.com:

Both Circle K and Petro Express are privately-owned chains of convenience stores, the former an international property of Quebec-based Alimentation Couche-Tard, and the latter owned by The Pantry, Inc., which is headquartered in Sanford, North Carolina. Neither chain is owned by Citgo or the Venezuela government. Although Petro Express outlets did once sell Citgo gasoline, the company stated in October 2006 that the chain would be phasing out sales of that brand by 2007. Soon after The Pantry's acquisition of Petro Express in 2007, the new parent company announced that gasoline sales at those outlets would be converted to Chevron's Texaco brand.

It is not uncommon for independent stations and chains to switch fuel suppliers from time to time. Occurrences of independents' dropping Citgo in favor of other suppliers are often misinterpreted by the public as attempts on Citgo's part to "switch names" in order to fool consumers into continuing to purchase Citgo gasoline.

An addendum about AK-47 factories and Iranian-run oil refineries was also later appended to this piece:
NEWS FLASH:

Chavez is NOW getting a Russian Weapons Factory built by Putin.

The RUSSIANS are building an AK-47 Kalashnikov Assault Rifle factory in Venezuela to give armament support to Communist Rebel groups throughout the Americas.

Chavez NOW has IRANIANS operating his oil refineries in Venezuela for him. It is likely only a matter of time, if not already, before Chavez has Iranian built LONG RANGE missiles, with a variety of warhead types aimed at: Guess Who?
According to news reports, Russia's Izhevsk Mechanical Plant (IMP) has already manufactured and supplied about 100,000 AK-103 assault rifles to Venezuela under an earlier contract, and they have also signed a contract for two arms plants in Venezuela (one to produce AK-103a and the other to produce 7.62-mm ammunition for those rifles), with construction to begin at the end of 2007 and be completed by 2010.

Also in 2007, Venezuela and Iran signed a $4 billion deal to develop Ayacucho 7, a block of the lucrative Orinoco Reserve in Venezuela which is believed to hold more than 30 billion barrels of oil. Under the deal, Iran will build four oil rigs off the shore of Venezuela by the end of the year.