CT AG Approves Citgo Oil for Low Income Nutmeggers

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

02/28/2006
No legal obstacles to Citgo fuel aid
Gregory B. Hladky , Capitol Bureau Chief

HARTFORD — No legal roadblocks stand in the way of a plan to accept discounted Venezuelan oil to help low-income people in this state heat their homes, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal ruled Monday.


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Blumenthal did acknowledge the controversial nature of the offer by leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to provide cheap oil to America’s poor through Citgo, a subsidiary of Venezuela’s national oil company.

"As a matter of policy or political perspective, there may be sound reason to have reservations about the source of this assistance—a company effectively owned by a foreign government that may have questionable policies or motives," Blumenthal said in his letter to Rell.

"There is also sound reason to be critical of Congress, whose ill-advised neglect makes this assistance necessary," Blumenthal added, referring to a controversial cutback in federal funding for low-income heating aid this winter.


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