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Yes, this shows me that the citizens of this country will embrace anything to make their life easier. When this country finally goes totally socialist and has a tyrant running this country the people will love it cause life will be easier for most of them. We have been indoctrinated over the past decades that the feds will take care of everything. Now this generation will embrace anything the fed wants just as long as their life is easy and they don't have to help anybody.

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I didn't read the article because it takes the Fox News site several minutes to open on my computer.

What's the problem with them accepting free oil? What did they trade off?


John, that ought to be easy for you to figure out.

That man is trying to under mind this nation, he detests America. He is not doing this for the good of America, he has his own agenda, its not for the good of this country.

But as I stated, many Americas would sell their soul out for a few dollars.

Tired, your right, this country is headed in a very dangerous direction. Of course no free nations has ever stood very long. Now our citizens wants something for nothing and they will fall for anything.
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I didn't read the article because it takes the Fox News site several minutes to open on my computer.

What's the problem with them accepting free oil? What did they trade off?


Here ya go John:


New Hampshire to Accept Free Oil from Chavez
Friday, July 18, 2008

CONCORD, N.H ? Two years ago, New Hampshire refused to accept heating oil from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the pro-Castro U.S. critic who once called President Bush "the devil." But with fuel prices rising, well, free oil is free oil.

With the state's blessing, New Hampshire residents will be receiving some of the fuel this winter.

New Hampshire becomes the last state in the Northeast to embrace the offer.

"A lot of people have said, `We need help and we value any help we can get,"' said Amy Ignatius, director of New Hampshire's office of energy and planning.

The oil giveaway will be managed by Citizens Energy, a nonprofit organization set up by former Massachusetts Rep. Joseph Kennedy to help the poor stay warm. But the state energy office plans to help Citizens publicize the aid and sign up fuel-oil dealers.

It is just the latest example of how rising oil prices have brought about an attitude adjustment in the U.S. Over the past few weeks, for instance, pressure has been growing in Washington and around the country to lift the federal ban on offshore drilling.

Back in 2006, when Chavez began offering free oil to Americans from Venezuela's government-controlled Citgo, New Hampshire's energy office contacted the Venezuelan Embassy about working out a deal.

But the idea galled some New Hampshire Republicans, including Sen. John Sununu, who called it a "disgrace" and an attempt at grandstanding by Chavez, and Democratic Gov. John Lynch squelched the effort.

This year, though, "the state's role is to make sure people are aware of the program," Lynch spokesman Colin Manning said.

Chavez's supporters defend the heating oil program as another example of a generous deed by a president leading a socialist revolution for the poor. Some Chavez critics have charged that he is trying to embarrass the Bush administration and curry favor with the American public.

But a lot has changed over the past two years. Back then, heating oil sold for about $2.50 per gallon in the Northeast. Last month, the average price was $4.61, with predictions of $5 per gallon oil by winter.

"The average tank is 250 to 275 gallons," Citizens spokeswoman Ashley Durmer said. "Filling it once is over $1,500. That is unfathomable that anyone can pay that price. If you have to fill the tank four times, it's going to be a devastating winter for a lot of people."

On Thursday, Sununu again criticized Chavez but said he has no problem with people or businesses accepting help from an independent nonprofit such as Citizens.

Sununu and other lawmakers around the Northeast are pressing for big increases in federal home heating aid. More than 6 million New England households rely on oil heat.

Bob Garside, president of the Oil Heat Council of New Hampshire, a trade group, predicted many of the state's 200 dealers will refuse to participate in the heating-oil giveaway. "In the past, it's been nothing but a ploy for Chavez," Garside said.

Bill Fuller, general manager of Fred Fuller Oil Co., disagreed. He began delivering fuel for Citizens last winter, when hundreds of New Hampshire residents who applied on their own, without state involvement, got 100 gallons free. Fuller said he plans to do it again.

"It's actually a pretty good program," he said. "We get a voucher. We fax it in and get money right away."

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It's obvious why Chavez is doing this but it won't benefit him to any great degree.

Better to take his oil for free, so he gets no monetary profit from that oil, than to buy it from him (we still get much oil from Venezuala) or from the Arabs who use the money we pay for that oil to supply terrorists with money and weapons, to work against Israel, and to gain a stronger standing in the world against Christianity and America.

The sad fact is that America has allowed herself to become the servant of these nations. Rather than harvest an abundance of oil here in America so we are not their servants, we put forth restrictions so we can't produce enough oil for ourselves. In the process we help fund these radical nations who help fund anti-Israel forces, terrorists and anti-American efforts around the globe.

Whether buying it or accepting it for free, America has allowed these other countries to become the head and herself the tail.

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It's obvious why Chavez is doing this but it won't benefit him to any great degree.

Better to take his oil for free, so he gets no monetary profit from that oil, than to buy it from him (we still get much oil from Venezuala) or from the Arabs who use the money we pay for that oil to supply terrorists with money and weapons, to work against Israel, and to gain a stronger standing in the world against Christianity and America.

The sad fact is that America has allowed herself to become the servant of these nations. Rather than harvest an abundance of oil here in America so we are not their servants, we put forth restrictions so we can't produce enough oil for ourselves. In the process we help fund these radical nations who help fund anti-Israel forces, terrorists and anti-American efforts around the globe.

Whether buying it or accepting it for free, America has allowed these other countries to become the head and herself the tail.


I disagree, it will make those who get this oil think highly of this man, he is trying to kelp his image with the America people, it will work, for to many American love money.

Be the same thing as taking handouts from Hitler.

Yes, this will cost America.
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:amen::goodpost:


If Hitler had of given hand out to the America people before the war, many might not have raised a hand against him.

NO, NO, the statement I made above is 100 % wrong, I feel bad about slandering the good people of America from those days.

Back them people in America were much different than they are now. This nation was full of true patriots in those days. Back them you nearly had to force people to take handouts. Now you can't stop them from wanting hand outs. But sad to say, in modern America its different. Patriotism is a thing of the past. Chavez knows this, therefore he has offered this free oil, because he knows it will make many American hearts grow warm for him. He knows there is more than one way to win. And with all of that oil money he has the money to buy the hearts of many Americas who will sell out for a few dollars.
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Most people don't even know who Chavez is. Were it not for oil his little country wouldn't even be a thought.

Hitler was very popular among millions in America prior to World War Two. Even so, that didn't change the way FDR dealt with Hitler and it didn't prevent America from going to war in Europe.

The fact is, much of the money we spend on oil goes to support radical Islam. Much of the money we spend on oil supports anti-Israel and anti-American efforts around the globe. All of these are far worse than a few folks getting some oil from Chavez yet I don't see anyone working against this.

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[quote="John81"]Most people don't even know who Chavez is. Were it not for oil his little country wouldn't even be a thought.

Hitler was very popular among millions in America prior to World War Two. Even so, that didn't change the way FDR dealt with Hitler and it didn't prevent America from going to war in Europe.

The fact is, much of the money we spend on oil goes to support radical Islam. Much of the money we spend on oil supports anti-Israel and anti-American efforts around the globe. All of these are far worse than a few folks getting some oil from Chavez yet I don't see anyone working against this.[/quote]

John, do you take hand outs?

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[quote="Jerry80871852"][quote="John81"]Most people don't even know who Chavez is. Were it not for oil his little country wouldn't even be a thought.

Hitler was very popular among millions in America prior to World War Two. Even so, that didn't change the way FDR dealt with Hitler and it didn't prevent America from going to war in Europe.

The fact is, much of the money we spend on oil goes to support radical Islam. Much of the money we spend on oil supports anti-Israel and anti-American efforts around the globe. All of these are far worse than a few folks getting some oil from Chavez yet I don't see anyone working against this.[/quote]

John, do you take hand outs?[/quote]

No.

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