Petrolcide

I can't say I'm too hip on any T-shirt featuring a stick figure of any kind (played out and played out and played out again - welcome to 1996!), but I just had to pick this one up. It communicates my feelings well.

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I also wrote about it on The Black Van Corporation blog.

There is a rumor going around that Citgo gas stations get their gas from Venezuela, which seems to me to be slightly better than getting it from the middle east. Does anyone know if this is true? If it is, then why does Citgo follow the pricing trends? Couldn't they just produce cheaper oil and make a killing?

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Not only does Citgo get

Not only does Citgo get their oil from Venezuela, Citgo is a 100% Venezuelan owned company. They could sell cheaper (as they all could) but they are a member of OPEC so they can't really make up their own prices. - We get a huge amount of our oil from Venezuela. Only Canada, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia beat it in terms of barrells imported per month.

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