Chavez offers Americans cheap fuel: "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, popular with the poor at home, has offered to help needy Americans with cheap supplies of petrol.
'We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States,' the populist leader said at the end of a visit to Communist-run Cuba on Tuesday.
Chavez did not say how Venezuela would go about providing petrol to poor communities.
Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA owns Citgo, which has 14,000 petrol stations in the United States.
The offer may sound attractive to Americans feeling pinched by soaring prices at the pump but not to the US government, which sees Chavez as a left-wing troublemaker in Latin America.
Petrol is cheaper than mineral water in oil-producing Venezuela, where consumers can fill their tanks for less than $2.
Average petrol prices have risen to $2.61 a gallon in the US, according to the US Energy Information Administration."
'We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States,' the populist leader said at the end of a visit to Communist-run Cuba on Tuesday.
Chavez did not say how Venezuela would go about providing petrol to poor communities.
Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA owns Citgo, which has 14,000 petrol stations in the United States.
The offer may sound attractive to Americans feeling pinched by soaring prices at the pump but not to the US government, which sees Chavez as a left-wing troublemaker in Latin America.
Petrol is cheaper than mineral water in oil-producing Venezuela, where consumers can fill their tanks for less than $2.
Average petrol prices have risen to $2.61 a gallon in the US, according to the US Energy Information Administration."
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