…or reverse boycott. He wants y’all to “buy your gas at Citgo,” ’cause that company happens to be owned by the state-controlled oil company of Venezuela. You might have read about that Latin American country, and how its democratically-elected president Hugo Chavez has survived at least one US-backed coup attempt, and how he’s held steadfast to his platform of channelling his country’s oil wealth toward eradicating his country’s poverty.

Citgo was originally a Northeast regional chain, originally called “Cities Service.” Many of us grew up knowing the Citgo logo only from its hypnotic huge neon sign seen in Boston Red Sox baseball telecasts. The only reason you can get Citgo-branded gas out here’s because it was briefly owned in the late ’80s by 7-Eleven, and still has a contract to supply gas to 7-Eleven locations, including 11 stores in Seattle.