New CITGO Sweepstakes Offers ‘Ultimate Road Trip’ Experiences

HOUSTON — Many Americans enjoy a great road trip. CITGO Petroleum Corp. is hoping to make these trips even more enjoyable with its “Ultimate Road Trip Sweepstakes,” running through Oct. 26.

The promotion only requires consumers to visit www.citgosweepstakes.com to play the game and enter for a chance to win one of hundreds of prizes. The grand-prize winner will take home a 2015 Jeep Wrangler Sport Unlimited and $5,000 in spending cash. Three first-place winners can choose their ultimate road trip experience from the following: A South Carolina golf package; Grand Canyon/Sedona/Lake Powell escorted tour; Smoky Mountains adventure; Maine fishing trip; Vermont ski trip; Nashville Grand Ole Opry tour; or St. Petersburg/Clearwater, Fla., beach getaway. 

An additional 500 second-place winners will receive a National Parks Foundation membership and a $50 Bass Pro Shops gift card. 

"We're proud to be a part of our customers' lives and fuel their road trips, whether that involves everyday trips like driving to work or once-in-a-lifetime adventures like taking their dream vacation," said Alan Flagg, CITGO assistant vice president of supply and marketing. "Through our network of locally-owned stations across 29 states and Washington, D.C., our goal is to help people get to where they want to go. The Ultimate Road Trip Sweepstakes lets us reward consumers and engage them online, in-store and through their mobile devices."

According to CITGO, consumers can earn additional chances to win prizes by sharing on Facebook and Twitter and uploading store receipts from participating CITGO locations.

Houston-based CITGO Petroleum Corp. is owned by CITGO Holding Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela S.A., the national oil company of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.