Wow I have no idea whats going on here.

Is Chavez trying to help or he is he trying to gain support... and if he is... what for!!!

I have to admit this one puzzles me, and I heard about this before when he did offer, they refused... this is weird.

I wish I could get some free heating oil.

Last year we only bought one tank full and it was almost a thousand dollars. Might not be able to afford that this winter. I'm worried.

Good thing we have a wood burning stove as a supplement heating source. But it doesn't go throughout the house.

*double post*

[edit on 7/19/2008 by Kruel]

Maybe Chavez doesn't dislike the people of the US... he just dislikes the government. If that's the case, him and I have something in common.

Perhaps it's just one country offering aid to another country/state.

When one country helps another for any reason, there's always more to it than meets the eye. If he's pandering for the support of the U.S. population, so be it. If he's just trying to show off his "good side" to the international community, so be it. Now if only we could get Shrub to do the same...

Frankly, I think we should take his offers regardless of whether or not he's an "evil dictator." Free oil is free oil.

They say the best way to judge a man, is not by what he say's but by what he does.

Take a look at what he has done for the poor people of Venezuela. He has made immense improvements in their lives, he has provided much needed housing and aid to those that had nothing, he has also given them free land and the ability to reap a living from the land.
There have been several American backed coup attempts to overthrow his Government. And each time, the common citizen's have rallied to his aid and prevented this from happening

Who here would rush out in to the streets and risk their lives for George Bush if that were to happen in America?

If you ask me the typical person down there, doesn't spend eight hours a day watching the tv they are living life and have a much better grasp on what is going on in their own country than we do. So when they rise up to prevent things like that going on.
I think we should give some credibility to the merit of what Mr. Chavez not only say's. But DOES.

I think what he is saying is simple. I don't hate Americans I hate you're president because the things he does are F@#%!ng EVIL!
I say good on him, he probably knows the position he has put himself in are detrimental to ones life. But he has enough moral fiber to stand up for what he believes in.. the people.

Let me ask you this. Would our accepting his oil make us bad Americans in the eyes of our own people, no matter what his intentions are? Should we even consider finger pointing at these people? Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. When you are looking at another cold winter coming up, and the price they have to pay for their heating oil (as the one poster said, $1000.00 a tank full). And then you look at the pace our government is taking on helping to get this under control (a snails pace). What are we to do in this instance? Let them freeze because they can not afford the cost? Where in the H is our government? Bickering amongst themselves as usual, blaming each other for this problem, when in fact they should be tripping over each other getting a solution out to the people. Will they? No, it`s politics as usual in Washington.

It gets harder to believe anything Washington tells us anymore the way they are going and acting. They act at times like little 5 year olds on the school playground fighting over a ball, and the ball is our lives, our tax dollars and our freedoms. Makes me really wonder if what they tell us about Chavez is true or not. Take his oil? In a heart beat we should. Even if it is to show Washington were not setting around like they want us to do as usual and wait for them to act. People can`t wait, many can`t tighten the old belt any further when it comes to deciding between food or fuel. It`s all a matter of trying to survive in this screwed up economy we have.

"They" say we are not in a recession.

Yet we have to take free oil just to heat the homes up north? It's so bad they cannot afford to heat their homes?

Makes me kind of sad.

i work in IT for a call center and one of our clients is citizensenergy and they run the program for giving people who need it free oil during the winter months. this program has been running for a while now. people actually call in complaining because the oil comes from chavez or they just want to curse out joe kennedy about running this as well.