I don't think that word means what you think it means

Let's do a little deconstruction, shall we?

"Local". Locally farmed and fossilized dinosaurs? Locally drilled? Refined? Locally owned? Ok, maybe the guy in the middle of the billboard, but who the hell is he?

"Loyal". To whom? Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A?? Venezuela? Hugo Chavez?

Now, don't get me wrong. I understand that the multinational economy trumps the tired notion of nation-states. And anyone who suggests that there was a whiff of sulfur on George Bush, while promoting a book by Noam Chomsky has earned a small sliver of my respect. One can also argue that Venezuelan petroleum is less morally compromised than, say, Persian Gulf petroleum.

But local and loyal? And don't give them credit for that free oil giveaway to the American poor. It doesn't exist anymore.