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Worried about the skyrocketing cost of gasoline and heating oil this
> winter?
> Well, Hugo Chavez, the firebrand president of oil-rich Venezuela, wants to
> help.
>
> Chavez, a former army officer twice elected president in huge landslides,
> has become a target of the Bush administration for his radical social
> policies.
> Last month, right-wing evangelist Pat Robertson openly urged his
> assassination.
>
> But now Chavez is firing back at Bush and Robertson with a surprise
> weapon - cheap oil for America's poor.
>
> In an exclusive interview yesterday, the Venezuelan leader said his
> country will soon start to ship heating oil and diesel fuel at below
> market prices to poor communities and schools in the United States.
> "We will begin with a pilot project in Chicago on Oct. 14, in a
> Mexican-American community," said Chavez, who was in town for the United
> Nations sessions. "We will then expand the program to New York and Boston
> in November."
>
> The first New York neighborhood in the program will be the South Bronx,
> where Chavez was to speak today as a guest of Rep. Jose Serrano.
> The Venezuelan leader revealed details of the new oil-for-the-poor program
> during a wide-ranging interview at the upper East Side home of his
> country's UN ambassador.
>
> "If you want to eliminate poverty, you have to empower the poor, not treat
> them as beggars," Chavez said.
>
> During the hour-long interview, he also blasted the Iraq war; accused Bush
> of trying to kill him to reassert U.S. control over Venezuela's oil;
> offered support for the victims of Hurricane Katrina; and lampooned the UN
> as out of touch with the world's poor.
>
> Echoing his favorite American writer, radical linguist Noam Chomsky,
> Chavez warned that "Americans must reorder their style of life" because
> "this planet cannot sustain" our "irrational" consumption, especially when
> it comes to oil.
> Much of what Chavez said he has expressed before.
> But his novel oil-for-the-poor idea in this country is sure to make him an
> even bigger target of the Bush administration.
> Those who scoff at this as a publicity scam should think twice.
> With the price of oil at record levels, the Chavez government is swimming
> in cash.
>
> Those sky-high fuel prices are bound to have a drastic impact on
> low-income neighborhoods here, especially since Congress redirected much
> of this winter's usual energy assistance program for victims of Hurricane
> Katrina.
> Venezuela, on the other hand, owns a key U.S. subsidiary called Citgo
> Petroleum Corp., which has 14,000 gas stations and owns eight oil
> refineries in this country, none of which was damaged by Katrina.
> Chavez said he can afford to sharply reduce Citgo's prices by "cutting out
> the middle man."
>
> His plan is to set aside 10% of the 800,000 barrels of oil produced by the
> Citgo refineries and ship that oil directly to schools, religious
> organizations and nonprofits in poor communities for distribution.
>
> The same approach, he said, has worked in the Caribbean, where Venezuela
> is already sharply subsidizing oil deliveries to more than a dozen
> nations.
> Cutting oil prices must seem like the worst sort of radicalism to the Big
> Oil companies and their buddies at the Bush-Cheney White House.
> But ordinary Americans fed up with price gouging by these energy companies
> could begin to look at Chavez in a different light if his oil-for-the-poor
> project works.
>
> Still, Chavez, warns, we must all think about the future. Americans are 5%
> of the world's population, yet we consume 25% of the world's oil.
> On his drive from Kennedy Airport to Manhattan this week, Chavez noted,
> "Out of every 100 cars I saw on the road, 99 had only one person in the
> car.
> "These people were using up fuel," he said. "They were polluting the
> environment. This planet cannot sustain that mode of life."
> That's the kind of message that can get a man killed these days - or at
> least labeled a dangerous madman by folks in the White House.
Worried about the skyrocketing cost of gasoline and heating oil this
> winter?
> Well, Hugo Chavez, the firebrand president of oil-rich Venezuela, wants to
> help.
>
> Chavez, a former army officer twice elected president in huge landslides,
> has become a target of the Bush administration for his radical social
> policies.
> Last month, right-wing evangelist Pat Robertson openly urged his
> assassination.
>
> But now Chavez is firing back at Bush and Robertson with a surprise
> weapon - cheap oil for America's poor.
>
> In an exclusive interview yesterday, the Venezuelan leader said his
> country will soon start to ship heating oil and diesel fuel at below
> market prices to poor communities and schools in the United States.
> "We will begin with a pilot project in Chicago on Oct. 14, in a
> Mexican-American community," said Chavez, who was in town for the United
> Nations sessions. "We will then expand the program to New York and Boston
> in November."
>
> The first New York neighborhood in the program will be the South Bronx,
> where Chavez was to speak today as a guest of Rep. Jose Serrano.
> The Venezuelan leader revealed details of the new oil-for-the-poor program
> during a wide-ranging interview at the upper East Side home of his
> country's UN ambassador.
>
> "If you want to eliminate poverty, you have to empower the poor, not treat
> them as beggars," Chavez said.
>
> During the hour-long interview, he also blasted the Iraq war; accused Bush
> of trying to kill him to reassert U.S. control over Venezuela's oil;
> offered support for the victims of Hurricane Katrina; and lampooned the UN
> as out of touch with the world's poor.
>
> Echoing his favorite American writer, radical linguist Noam Chomsky,
> Chavez warned that "Americans must reorder their style of life" because
> "this planet cannot sustain" our "irrational" consumption, especially when
> it comes to oil.
> Much of what Chavez said he has expressed before.
> But his novel oil-for-the-poor idea in this country is sure to make him an
> even bigger target of the Bush administration.
> Those who scoff at this as a publicity scam should think twice.
> With the price of oil at record levels, the Chavez government is swimming
> in cash.
>
> Those sky-high fuel prices are bound to have a drastic impact on
> low-income neighborhoods here, especially since Congress redirected much
> of this winter's usual energy assistance program for victims of Hurricane
> Katrina.
> Venezuela, on the other hand, owns a key U.S. subsidiary called Citgo
> Petroleum Corp., which has 14,000 gas stations and owns eight oil
> refineries in this country, none of which was damaged by Katrina.
> Chavez said he can afford to sharply reduce Citgo's prices by "cutting out
> the middle man."
>
> His plan is to set aside 10% of the 800,000 barrels of oil produced by the
> Citgo refineries and ship that oil directly to schools, religious
> organizations and nonprofits in poor communities for distribution.
>
> The same approach, he said, has worked in the Caribbean, where Venezuela
> is already sharply subsidizing oil deliveries to more than a dozen
> nations.
> Cutting oil prices must seem like the worst sort of radicalism to the Big
> Oil companies and their buddies at the Bush-Cheney White House.
> But ordinary Americans fed up with price gouging by these energy companies
> could begin to look at Chavez in a different light if his oil-for-the-poor
> project works.
>
> Still, Chavez, warns, we must all think about the future. Americans are 5%
> of the world's population, yet we consume 25% of the world's oil.
> On his drive from Kennedy Airport to Manhattan this week, Chavez noted,
> "Out of every 100 cars I saw on the road, 99 had only one person in the
> car.
> "These people were using up fuel," he said. "They were polluting the
> environment. This planet cannot sustain that mode of life."
> That's the kind of message that can get a man killed these days - or at
> least labeled a dangerous madman by folks in the White House.
