Alaskans Put Their Lives Where Their Hearts Are

While many of us here in Houston have plenty of money and plenty of choices, many some how find themselves at Citgo stations refueling. Citgo, fully owned by the country of Venezuela which has vowed the over throw the United States and known for its disdain towards the West in general, continues to get treated as just another gas station here and around much of the country.

The Detroit Free Press and several other national media have found one place where business is anything but usual when it comes to Citgo. A few Alaskan villages made up of homes put together with plywood and full of terrible gaps and facing sub zero temperatures this winter are actually saying "no" to Citgo. Even with Citgo willing to give it away (at around $5 million) to them. That's right, many Alaskans in extreme poverty are saying "no" to a program designed to showcase poverty in the US. They are saying "thanks, but no thanks" to free fuel.

These Alaskans who are low in income but high in civic pride are telling dictator Chavez and his company to take care of Venezuela's own starving people and not embarrass the people of these villages. Furthermore, don't dare come to the US and criticize our President. Take your bad manners back home where you would likely fund an assassin to target any world leader who would call your President "the devil" on your territory.

The people of Alaska are willing to freeze for their country. Would you be willing to simply drive by a Citgo and find another station? I know I will.