Citgo

I had to get gas this morning, and chuckled to myself because, coincidentally, the most convenient gas station--where my wife and I have spent quite a lot of money in recent years—is a Citgo.

This is funny because Citgo is, as its website points out, “an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.” So here I am, sometimes poking fun at Hugo Chávez, and yet I’ve been funding him all the while. My salary is paid by the state of NC, which means the taxpayers, so maybe we can even say all of us together are directly helping him. Fill ‘er up…