The company is owned by PDV America, Inc., an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

That's CITGO, the petroleum company.  It WAS a US company until 1990 when it was purchased, basically, by the government of Venezuela.  As you may of may not know Venezuela is a socialist country that is very anti-American.  Right now the Pres. of Iran is in Venezuela in talks with Pres Chavez.  The bond between Venezuela and Iran has some history.  Recently Venezuela was one of the only nations to vote to protect Iran from the security council of the UN regarding it nuclear program.

I encourage you to go to the CITGO site.( www.citgo.com) and to the right in news at a glance take a look at the "CITGO responds to misinformation" link.  This call is not a new one, but seeing the increased support Venezuela offers Iran I think it must be brought back up.  Even if you too are against Bush you cannot honestly support a nuclear weapon in the hands of Iran.

You will see the CITGO's setting the record straight is merely pointing out that other companies also use Venezuelan oil,  that Venezuela in the past has been a steady supplier of Oil, and among other things the donations that CITGO has made.  It is a rhetoric shield to the fact that the government that owns CITGO is run by an America hating president that supports a country that each day send money, weapons, and insurgents into Iraq to kill Americans.  A country that would love nothing more than the down fall of America.  Is that where we want our money to go.

That is the free market system CITGO.  The fact that we as consumers have the power to wield our money as we see fit.  we do not have to sponsor the government through the governments ownership of an industry...that's socialism not capitalism.  Our dollars can speak for our political and/or moral beliefs.

Please consider this the next time you fill up.  Know that a dollar for CITGO will end up down the chain funding an anti-American government that is a supporter of those who wish to kill Americans.