Received this in an e-mail the other day...thought I would share.:biggrin: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Are you aware that the Saudis are boycotting American products? In > addition, they are gouging us on oil prices. > Shouldn't we return the favor? Can't we take control of our own destiny > and > let these giant oil importers know who REALLY generates their profits, > their > livings? How about leaving American Dollars in America and reduce the > import/export deficit? > An appealing remedy might be to boycott their GAS. Every time you fill up > your car you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia > . > Just purchase gas from companies that don't import their oil from the > Saudis. > Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill up my > tank, I'm sending my money to people who I get the impression want me, my > family and my friends dead. The following gas companies import Middle > Eastern oil: > > Shell.................................... 205,742,000 barrels > > Chevron/Texaco.................... 144,332,000 barrels > > Exxon /Mobil........................ 130,082,000 barrels > > Marathon/Speedway............. 117,740,000 barrels > > Amoco.................................. 62,231,000 barrels > > And CITGO oil is imported from Venezuela by Dictator Hugo Chavez who hates > America and openly avows our economic destruction! (We pay Chavez's > regime > nearly $10 Billion per year in oil revenues!) > > The U.S. currently imports 5,517,000 barrels of crude oil per day from > OPEC. > If you do the math at $100 per barrel, that's over $550 million PER DAY > ($200 BILLION per year!) handed over to OPEC, many of whose members are > our > confirmed enemies!!!!! It won't stop here - oil prices could go to $200 a > barrel or higher if we keep buying their product. > > Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil: > > Sunoco......................... 0 barrels > Conoco........................ 0 barrels > Sinclair....................... 0 barrels > BP / Phillips................ 0 barrels > > Hess. ............................. 0 barrels > ARC0............................. 0 barrels > > Maverick......................... 0 barrels > > Flying J. .......................... 0 barrels > > Valero............................ 0 barrels > Murphy Oil USA* ............. 0 Sold at Wal-Mart , gas is from South > Arkansas and fully USA owned and produced. > > * *Not only that but they give scholarships to all children in their > town who finish high school and are legal US citizens.. > > > > All of this information is available from the U.S. Department of Energy > and > each company is required to state where they get their oil and how much > they > are importing. > > But to have a real impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas > buyers > With the help of the internet, it's really simple to do. Now, don't wimp > out at this point....keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to > reach > millions of people!! > > I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to > at > only ten more (30 x 10 = 300)....and those 300 send it to at least ten > more > (300 x 10 = 3,000)....and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth > generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION > consumers!!!!!!! > > If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, > then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level > further, you guessed it...THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE-the entire > population > of the United States of America !!!! > > Again, all you have to do is forward this message to 10 people. How long > would that really take you? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten > more > people, within one day all 300 MILLION people could theoretically be > contacted during the next eight days! ....discuss.
This wont work. What this would do is cause oil prices to rise even more. Since demand for oil at M.E. oil backed pumps would go down, they would cut production and the price would remain the same or rise to recoup profits they are missing out on. When the M.E. says the price of oil is up, everyone follows. Including non OPEC or non M.E. oil companies. If Shell raised their gas prices 15 cents a gallon to compensate for low demand, BP/Amoco will raise their prices 13 cents to make more profit while still offering oil for less than the competitor...even though they aren't recieving the oil from a M.E. or OPEC oil company. Why would they reduce it? The Shell station is still going to sell it for 4.15 a gallon, why would they not raise the price to 4.13? It means they get to make 13 more cents on the gallon than they were making before and they get increased profits due to the lower price they paid for non OPEC oil. You as the consumer still lose. The problem is, there is no end in sight for the crude supply in the M.E. Supply and Demand fails when the production supply is controlled by the supplier. In this case, produced supply can be altered to match demand levels. If demand goes down, production of supply goes down and keeps the price of oil stable until demand returns. It isn't like they have tons and tons of oil and if you don't buy it it will just sit there. They will still sell oil. But if you don't buy their oil and demand goes down, they will reduce supply and keep the price nice and high so as to continue to make the profit margin they are used to. Hell, they may even cut production so much as to reduce the level of produced supply just so they can jack the price up even more. If oil was a finite resource, then supply and demand would function normally, but there is no end to the supply of oil in the near future. They pump what they need, refine what they can sell, and sell it at whatever price they want.
^bastards. So can you explain to me the Amoco-BP thing? They have Amoco importing over 6 million barrels and BP marked down as a '0 barrel purchased' company. Most Amoco gas stations I've been to are BP's?
I don't worry about it.:roll: I drive as much or more. Gas prices only affect those that can't afford it...lol. I haz moto-cycle too Brian240.
