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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Feb 09, 2006 10:09am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Burlington Free Press |
| News Date | Thursday, February 9, 2006 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | VERGENNES -- The news conference made it look easy. The Venezuelan CEO of Citgo, U.S. Rep. Bernie Sanders, former Rep. Joseph Kennedy and the Venezuelan ambassador to the United States spoke Tuesday about how a discounted oil deal will help low-income Vermonters stay warm.
Then a truck pulled up and pumped about 50 gallons of free oil into the local homeless shelter.
It isn't going to be that easy -- at least not for the moment.
The final details of a deal with Venezuelan-owned Citgo to provide discounted heating oil to Vermonters were being worked out long after the news conference was over. Even then, there might be resistance from some of the people who are needed the most -- fuel dealers.
Regardless, some 12,000 households in Vermont will be able to buy some heating oil at 40 percent off. |
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