Pat Robertson must be livid. Apparently Venezuelan President Chavez, fresh from being targetted for assassination by Mullah Pat, asked himself, "What would Jesus do?" And he answered: turn the other cheek and help the poor:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, popular with the poor at home, offered on Tuesday to help needy Americans with cheap supplies of gasoline.
"We want to sell gasoline and heating fuel directly to poor communities in the United States," the populist leader told reporters at the end of a visit to Communist-run Cuba....
Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA owns Citgo, which has 14,000 gas stations in the United States....
Gasoline is cheaper than mineral water in oil-producing Venezuela, where consumers can fill their tanks for less than $2. Average gas prices have risen to $2.61 a gallon in the United States, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration....
Chavez said Venezuela could supply gasoline to Americans at half the price they now pay if intermediaries who "speculated ... and exploited consumers" were cut out.
Venezuela supplies Cuba with generously financed oil and plans to help Caribbean nations foot their oil bills....
Chavez and [Cuban President Fidel] Castro offered to give poor Americans free health care and train doctors free of charge.
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