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Discount heating oil for MA

Massachusetts state legislators inked a deal with Venezuelan officials yesterday to provide low income residents with more than 12 million gallons of low cost heating oil this season. The oil will be provided by CITGO and administrated by Citizen’s Energy and Massachusetts Energy Consumer Alliance. Other big oil companies were asked to participate in the program, but none would agree. Must be their profits were a little tight this past quarter....

The discounted oil will be available beginning Dec. 12 to any of the more than 40,000 Massachusetts households receiving federal fuel oil assistance. Families who have used up their $550 annual federal subsidy will get a letter from Citizens Energy informing them of the new program.

Yay, Hugo!

(And let it be said that Mitt Romney thinks this is fantastic, too.)

Posted on 11/23/05 at 06:30 PM
 




Linkmeister

Interesting that the Bush Administration didn’t request that Congress increase the LIHEAP program’s budget, and Chavez fills that gap.

A slow burn is occurring at the White House, I expect.

United States   Posted by Linkmeister on 11/23/05  at  06:45 PM





N in Seattle

Cool! 

The sign will shine brightly!

United States   Posted by N in Seattle on 11/23/05  at  07:47 PM





Kate

You know, Chavez is nobody’s fool. He knows good marketing when he sees the opportunity. And I really do think he cares about poor people. It’s not entirely a political opportunity with him. He has the oil, he can help poor people with it. If it happens to clip George’s nose in the process, so much the better. I hope other states follow suit.

You can bet that George is pissed.

United States   Posted by Kate on 11/23/05  at  08:09 PM





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