Here you go:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/west/chi-0510140302oct14,1,6630504.story
Maybe you should spend less time inventing viewpoints and google it yourself next time.
Ah, thank you! I did do a Google search but didn't see that news story.
But let's look at what it says, shall we?
Now Venezuela wants to put smiles on the faces of poor Chicagoans by offering them cut-rate heating oil to combat skyrocketing prices.
So, on October 14, the date when it was actually supposed to
start, he's now saying what he
wants to do. And also
Alvarez said that, because Illinois relies so heavily on natural gas, Venezuela officials might consider swapping heating oil for natural gas. Or Venezuela might offer cheap diesel fuel for school buses and vehicles operated by nonprofit groups. Venezuelan officials also are working with Rainbow/PUSH.
So now Venezuela officials
might consider something. (I can't even figure out what the heating oil/natural gas "swap" means, but the diesel fuel for nonprofit groups
sounds good, even though it has nothing to do with what was originally offered.) He said it again, and who could possibly expect more than that? I, for one.
Of course, it's been pointed out that Chicago is one place where heating oil isn't needed. Perhaps setting Chicago aside for the "pilot project" was stupid, but then again, perhaps it was very clever.
Since you're so excellent at searching Google, perhaps you could find a newspaper story about how Citgo, under the direction of Chavez, has actually provided some substantial amount of
actual heating oil at a discount to at least one poor family. If you do so, I will be delighted. If you can find such a story with a date before I wrote this OP, you can insult my Google skills and my presumption and invention of opinions
all you like, and I'll even agree and apologize. But you have to understand, and I will try to explain: I'm talking about
real oil here, the stuff that feels slimy when you touch it. Not just words and promises that sound slimy when I hear them. Physical stuff that goes into a fire and makes hear.
I want to be extremely clear about this. When the story broke, I was skeptical. See, I think
politicians lie, and just because Chavez hates the US doesn't mean that he's honorable. I didn't think that the oil was going to materialize. I think it was political grandstanding. Because, if you can convince people to do a "buycott" with just words, why bother actually delivering? I wrote about this on this forum, and people told me that I was being unfair or cynical or something and not giving Chavez a chance.
So now he's had a chance plus three weeks, and so I ask.
Where's the damn oil?
Not even close, even if you drop a zero.