Cheap Oil for America's Poor

"Venezuela has agreed to sell heating oil at discount prices in low-income communities in Chicago, New York and Boston."

"Venezuela's president has decided to expand his Oil-for-the-Poor program and sell cheap oil to the No. 1 superpower of the world. The Houston-based petroleum company CITGO, wholly owned by Venezuela, will begin the program in Boston. Up to 12 million gallons of heating oil will be offered at a bargain price, representing $10 million in savings for locals, according to CITGO."

Here's a story I seem to have missed when first reported back on Nov 22nd. Funny how a supposed enemy cares more about the affects on the poor because of high heating prices, than our own government. The Congress refused to act to aide those hardest hit by high heating oil prices, while American owned companies just sit back and soak up the profits. Granted, much of that profit is needed to repair hurricane damage, but they certainly could've done a good deed by doing just what Chavez did, by specifically targetting areas most in need. The alternative is a large number of citizens dying for lack of heat, in the richest nation on earth.

We allow our government to give excessive tax breaks to, and even bail out, big businesses when they get into financial trouble through mismanagement, but when it's time to return the favor, inaction and silence.