Word: citgo
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...property holdings in the neighborhood, and lamented that Barry’s Corner—the intersection of North Harvard St. and Western Ave, envisioned as a center of commerce akin to Cambridge’s Harvard Square—is still largely defined by an abandoned Harvard-owned Citgo Station...
...Currently, Barry’s Corner features only a small convenience shop, a gas station, a Dunkin Donuts, and a vacant former Citgo station owned by Harvard...
...added that Harvard’s 2007 purchase of the Citgo station in Barry’s Corner, which is now an “empty, abandoned gas station,” was a “monument to Harvard’s damaging real estate practices...
...record high of more than $4.50 last year. Still, those households are also confronting the worst economic crisis since the Depression and the unemployment and precarious finances that come with it. As a result, politicians like Democratic U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah, many of whose Philadelphia constituents have received the Citgo fuel, wonder why U.S. oil giants like ExxonMobil - which saw a record $40 billion profit in 2007 and probably broke that in 2008 - don't take advantage of the same p.r. boon that Chávez reaped. "There is no doubt that the Exxons in this country should be participating...
...unlikely, however, that the crisis will allow Washington to keep LIHEAP at that level in the next federal budget - making it just as important, say advocates, that one or more U.S. oil companies pitch in alongside Citgo. President-elect Barack Obama pledged during his campaign last year to force something similar: a windfall-oil-profits tax that would effectively make Big Oil fork over an "emergency energy rebate" for low-income households. But as his Jan. 20 Inauguration approaches, Obama seems to be backing...