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To: Ruffian who wrote (250408)	12/3/2007 11:38:13 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Don't bite the hand that feeds you. "President Chávez initiated a program to provide cheaper heating fuel for low income families in several areas of the United States. The program was expanded in September 2006 to include four of New York City's five boroughs, earmarking 25 million gallons of fuel for low-income New York residents at 40% off the wholesale market price. That quantity provides sufficient fuel to heat 70,000 apartments, covering 200,000 New Yorkers, for the entire winter. Chávez offered heating oil to poor, remote villages in Alaska, though many reportedly refused the offer despite economic hardship.[82] Some have questioned the motives of this generosity. Conservative legislative leaders in Maine have asked that state's governor to refuse the subsidized oil,[83] and New York Daily News criticized his offer by calling him an "oil pimp".[84] In 2007, Chavez signed a deal with Mayor of London Ken Livingstone for a similar program." en.wikipedia.org