7-Eleven Dumps Citgo! (do they read my blog?)
September 27, 2006
Last week I suggested that Americans should stop doing business with Venezuela’s state-run oil company, Citgo Petroleum Corp in a post titled, “How you can respond to crazy!“ I noted in my post that 7-Eleven resold Citgo gas. Perhaps it was due to my post, or more likely due to Hugo Chavez calling our President the devil, but for whatever reason, 7-Eleven announced this afternoon they were going to “dump” Citgo gasoline from their stores. The Dallas Morning News reported:
“Regardless of politics, we sympathize with many Americans’ concern over derogatory comments about our country and its leadership recently made by Venezuela’s president,” said 7-Eleven spokeswoman Margaret Chabris. “Certainly Chavez’s position and statements over the past year or so didn’t tempt us to stay with Citgo,” she added. Instead, 7-Eleven, which sells gasoline at 2,100 of its 5,300 U.S. stores, will now purchase fuel from several distributors, including Tower Energy Group of Torrance, Calif., Sinclair Oil of Salt Lake City, and Houston-based Frontier Oil Corp.
7-Eleven has responded to ‘crazy’ and you can too. Stop doing business with Chavez’s Citgo now! Don’t buy your beer, candy or gas from our enemies.
