Monday, November 16, 2009

Why does the US Government allow advertising by CITGO to be aired in the USA?

In the past two days CITGO has placed ads on CNN and Fox News. It angers me that any self respecting commercial TV or cable or Satellite company would accept money from CITGO and air their advertising. I would like to know why our government allows it. Did you ever see any advertising for Cuban Cigars?

Why does the US Government allow advertising by CITGO to be aired in the USA?
Let them waste their money on it, I won't buy their gas, so who cares.
Reply:Ok, So CITGO is owned by Venezuela. Our major beef with them is actually only that they kicked US corporations out and said that the oil in THEIR country is owned by THEIR people, not ours. When fuel shortages in the northern states this last winter left poor people freezing Chavez offered fuel at ridiculously low rates. Some states allowed people to buy it and stay warm, where others said no. He offered it at COST. American fuel companies however say that they aren't in the business of helping people, they are in the business of making money. That's why you pay so much money at the pumps now while they make RECORD PROFITS. (You didn't really believe they HAD to raise prices did you?) Check out the "atrocities" that Chavez is accused of. EVERY SINGLE ONE of them is something that our government is ALSO doing. Oh, but it's ok if it's US, right?





Banning advertising for legal products is censorship and the first step towards throwing yet another of our basic rights in the Bush Trash Bin for Civil Rights. Cuban cigars are NOT legal in the US.
Reply:It's all about the greenback. I don't understand why America still buys gas from a dictator that hates the US and pockets the profits. I guess corporate america also includes south america. Also, I guess the news channels didn't do their research on the background. Did people stop shopping at Target when France was showing their a** (Did anyone know Target was a French company?) Who boycotted Starbucks when a few Marines stationed in Iraq wrote a letter asking for some coffee and they were denied because Starbucks didn't support the war, but yet had a Starbucks in Kuwait to rob soldiers fighting a war they didn't believe in? Ignorance is bliss but knowledge is power.
Reply:It's a capitalist society, so naturally everything is about profit. It's not good, it's not bad, it's just the way it is.
Reply:There is no embargo on Venezuela.





And nor will there ever be, regardless of how much we hate Hugo, because we rely way too much on their oil.
Reply:I agree totally with you. I didn't know citgo had placed an ad with Fox....if CNN did it I wouldn't be surprised.





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