Why buy Citgo's gas from Chavez? Ethnic Solidarity, baby!

Mickey Kaus linked to this last week but it's actually from last year. Still, this ad was posted on YouTube at the beginning of this month:

Energia Latina!

The Fueling Station blog marvels that conservatives haven't "raised a stink" about this yet. Well, consider billowing sulfurous vapors lifted high. Most reprehensible: Citgo's English-language PR campaign stresses Citgo's American roots (yes, they started back in Tulsa as Cities Services company, but they've abandoned Tulsa and most of their U.S. personnel.) Meanwhile their Spanish language PR campaign stresses Latino solidarity over American interests.

What a bunch of useless, transparent, pathetic, race-hustling petro-lampreys. As I'm fond of asking, if you still get your gas from Citgo, may I ask why?

Corollary: If you own a gas station that for some reason retains the poisonous Citgo brand, may I ask why?

MORE: Reviewing that ad, I am flushed with scorn and derision. Like I'm gonna smuggle my f***ing trombone into Candlestick Park just on the off chance the organist will bust out an ethnically-resonant version of the ballpark favorites...

MORE: Since I'm mostly a white dude, maybe I should start packing a contrabassoon to the ballpark in case they play some JP Sousa. I'll get up and start tooting and bopping around in my arrhythmic but adorable white-boy way when the organist plays the Toreador march.

Oh, wait. That's not Sousa. That's by some Spanish dude. I meant the España Cañi Pasodoble.

No, wait, dangit. Apparently the main baseball crowd-pleasers are already wonderfully indicative of the American melting pot, and nobody makes a big deal about it, despite Citgo's crass attempts to balkanize them. Curses!