Refleksi: Wah kaum kafir bantu orang miskin dengan minyak, tetapi Indonesia negeri penghasil minyak, pendiri OPEC serta pemerintahnya dekat dengan surga malah menyusahkan rakyatnya sendiri. Apakah rakyat Indonesia tidur nyenyak dan enak bahagia dibuta-bisu-tulikan oleh penguasa serta pengusaha negara?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/22/venezuela.us.fuel.ap/index.html Venezuela sending cheap oil to Massachusetts Two nonprofit groups sign deal to aid low-income residents Tuesday, November 22, 2005; Posted: 8:46 p.m. EST (01:46 GMT) Joseph P. Kennedy II of Citizens Energy Corp. and other officials deliver oil Tuesday to Quincy residents. QUINCY, Massachusetts (AP) -- Thousands of low-income Massachusetts residents will receive discounted home heating oil this winter under an agreement signed Tuesday with Venezuela, whose government is a political adversary of the Bush administration. Citgo Petroleum Corp., a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, will supply oil at 40 percent below market prices. It will be distributed by two nonprofit organizations, Citizens Energy Corp. and the Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance. The agreement gives President Hugo Chavez's government standing as a provider of heating assistance to poor U.S. residents at a time when U.S. oil companies have been reluctant to do so and Congress has failed to expand aid in response to rising oil prices. U.S. Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts, a Democrat, met with Chavez in August and helped broker the deal. He said his constituents' needs for heating assistance trump any political points the Chavez administration can score. "This is a humanitarian gesture," Delahunt said, speaking after a news conference with Venezuelan officials and others outside the home of a constituent in Quincy who will receive heating aid. Citgo is the Houston, Texas-based subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company and has about 13,500 independently owned U.S. gas stations. It is offering Massachusetts more than 12 million gallons of discounted heating oil over the next four months, starting in December. The two nonprofit organizations will screen recipients for financial need and cooperate with oil distributors that will make discounted deliveries to qualifying homes and institutions, such as homeless shelters and hospitals. Chavez proposed offering fuel directly to poor U.S. communities during a visit to Cuba in August. He has said the aim is to bypass middlemen to reduce costs for the American poor -- a group he argues has been severely neglected by Bush's government. Chavez has become one of Latin America's most vocal critics of U.S.-style capitalism, which he calls a major cause of poverty. U.S. officials accuse Chavez of endangering Venezuelan democracy by assuming ever greater powers. During a short-lived 2002 coup against Chavez, the U.S. government promptly recognized the new leaders, who were soon driven out amid a popular uprising. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast +++++ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4461946.stm Last Updated: Wednesday, 23 November 2005, 02:08 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version Venezuela gives US cheap oil deal The deal will help tens of thousands of poorer Massachusetts residents Officials from Venezuela and Massachusetts have signed a deal to provide cheap heating oil to low-income homes in the US state. The fuel will be sold at about 40% below market prices to thousands of homes over the winter months. Local congressman William Delahunt described the deal as "an expression of humanitarianism at its very best". Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is one of the Bush administration's biggest adversaries in Latin America. He first announced his plan to provide cheap heating oil directly to lower-income Americans while visiting Cuba in August. 'About people' The deal involves shipping some 45m litres of heating oil from Venezuela to Massachusetts at a discounted rate via Citgo Petroleum, a US-based subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company. At a signing ceremony in Massachusetts, Mr Delahunt - a Democrat who helped broker the deal - rejected suggestions that it was politically motivated. "This is a gesture about people," the Associated Press news agency quotes him as saying. "It has nothing to do, as far as I'm concerned, with anything between the Bush administration and the Chavez administration." Talks are under way to agree a similar deal to provide discounted heating oil from Venezuela to low-income residents in New York's Bronx district. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! 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