Citgo to again provide heating oil help to needy US consumers

[Khristy1]

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Citgo to again provide heating oil help to needy US consumers

New York (Platts)--10Dec2007
Citgo and Citizens Energy Monday launched the third year of a heating oil
assistance program targeting needy consumers in Massachusetts.

Alejandro Granado, the president and CEO of Citgo, the US subsidiary of
Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, along with Citizens Energy Chairman Joseph
Kennedy, officially renewed the program aboard a Citgo tanker carrying heating
oil to Boston harbor

I was watching TV the other night (which I don't do very often) and saw a commercial come on. Mr. Granado pretty much came on and said your American companies are not willing to help the poor, but I'm more than willing to. I'm grateful that, hopefully, people in dire in need will be able to receive assistance, but this commercial really came across as a slap in the face to me.

[Issachar]

It is the communist way; to find a large group of people that are poor ... people that are struggling on some level and then move in with the goods to win their favor.

I don't know that it will ever work here, but perhaps someday and they are just trying to get their foot in the door early.

Issachar

[Khristy1]

I don't know that it will ever work here, but perhaps someday and they are just trying to get their foot in the door early.

Issachar

You're not sure what will work?

[icebear]

i'm pretty sure it will work, not because people are so poor necessarily, but because we are a nation full of people who feel they are entitled to free stuff and are more than willing to play the needy game to get handouts. those people will support anyone who gives them freebies.

this is in no way intended to point fingers at the people who genuinely need assistance, these are two entirely different groups imho

[Issachar]

You're not sure what will work?

... and then move in with the goods to win their favor.

Issachar

[Issachar]

... we are a nation full of people who feel they are entitled to free stuff ... I would say it is the plight of the fallen human race to feel that entitlement ... it's just more apparent in affluent societies. Put any poor from anywhere or anytime, into the society of the West we have tody and we'd see the same thing. Affluence does that. The more comfy the flesh is, the more it wants and the more it feels it deserves what it has. That is due to godlessness. Deuteronomy 8 is valuable in understanding a lot of why the human race does what it does. When all is well, it forgets God.

In Christ, as new creations, the Father of whom is God, we have a new heart, a new nature ... a new outlook. We don't take things for granted but rather, are thankful for everything. Hot water when we wake up in the morning to wash with, cool water (that we can see through; unlike some places) to drink, a choice of foods for breakfast, a heated or cooled car, depending on the weather, to go to work in, a job to go to work to, comfortable working conditions/environment, ample grocery stores to stop at on the way home for something to eat with ample choices of foods, clean, well equipped kitchens to cook in, ample sources of time fillers and clean, dry, comfortable beds to sleep in so we can get up and do it all again.

Issachar

[HisAlways]

Why can't Massachusetts do what Alaska did last year, and "just say no"?

Oh yea......never mind.

[Vonne]

It is the communist way; to find a large group of people that are poor ... people that are struggling on some level and then move in with the goods to win their favor.

Can the same not also be said about, many (not all) missionary organizations and trips. :scratch

[Issachar]

Can the same not also be said about, many (not all) missionary organizations and trips. No. Not at all. Not even sort of the same.

Jesus looks at the heart; at the motive. As sons and daughters of God, we should too. We never give because of a "get" motive. We give when, how and because the Lord leads. It is His harvest. It is His harvesting. It is His wooing. We are workers sent out to the harvest.

Communism is a machination of man and devised in his wicked heart. It is rooted in selfishness and pride. It is EVERYTHING opposite the Kingdom of God. Communist "giving" is a means of getting.

Issachar

[keylan]

Our friend Chavez seems to be in a pickle in his own country. No doubt this move is designed to give him some much needed good press at home.
i am grateful that families will be helped though. I know people i work with are really struggling with the high cost of fuel oil. $3.25 a gallon is a bit hard to handle. To bad our own government is not addressing this problem.

I have no doubt we are going to hear of some elderly people freezing to death this year. That is just not right in this country.:idunno