Blue Herald
20
Sep
VENEZUELA GIVES GIFT OF HEAT TO 12,000 ALASKAN HOMES THIS WINTER
by QuestionGirl

By ALEX DeMARBAN
Anchorage Daily News

Published: September 20, 2006
Last Modified: September 20, 2006 at 07:01 AM

A Venezuelan-owned oil company will warm 12,000 rural Alaska homes this winter with an enormous gift of heating fuel that some elated residents in the Bush call a godsend — and ironic.

The donation from Houston-based Citgo will buy 100 gallons of fuel for every household in 151 villages. But the gift worth roughly $5 million comes courtesy of a country whose leftist president is pals with America’s enemies and supports Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

Hugo Chavez also calls our president mean things, such as “genocidal murderer” and “madman.”

Read full article at Anchorage Daily News


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