Reply With Quotealright.i will specificaly look for those companies whenever convenient.I'm not gonna lie.
GASOLINE SOLUTION!
>The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor.
>An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS. Every time you fill up
>your car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi
>Arabia.
>
> Just buy from gas companies that don't import their oil from the
> Saudis.
>
> Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I
> fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to
> kill me, my
>
> family, and my friends. I thought it might be interesting for you to
> know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major
> companies import Middle East oil (for the period 09/01/00 -
> 08/31/01):
>
>
>
> 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
> If you do the math at $30.00 / barrel, these imports amount to over
> $18 BILLION!
>
>
>
> Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
>
>
>
> Citgo ........ 0 barrels
>
> Sunoco ....... 0 barrels
>
> Conoco ........ 0 barrels
>
> Sinclair ......... 0 barrels
>
> BP / Phillips ..... 0 barrels
>
> Hess ........ 0 barrels
> All of this information is available from the Department of Energy
> and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much
> they are importing. They report on a monthly basis. Keep this list
> in your car; share it with friends. Stop paying for terrorism.....
alright.i will specificaly look for those companies whenever convenient.I'm not gonna lie.
Nice work JBB, but we covered this topic this morning and upon further research we found:
1. It's a chain letter
Chain letters are unreliable as sources of information (see below) and ineffective as instruments of activism. In spite of their often vast circulation, email chain letters are simply ignored or deleted by most users and mistrusted even by many of those who actually bother to read them through.
Sure, there are plenty of credulous folks quick to click their Forward buttons every time a worthy-sounding cause or pet peeve is mentioned in an email, but that doesn't mean they'll follow through with action, and action is of the essence (if we're to take these messages seriously). Previous experience (e.g., with the much-touted "Gas Out" chain letters of 1999, 2000 and 2001) has shown that even when such chain letters circulate so widely as to win national media attention, their real-world effectiveness is negligible.
2. It's mistargeted
The effort misses the mark in two ways:
It wrongly assumes that all oil-producing countries in the Middle East fund or support terrorism.
It wrongly assumes that simply avoiding the purchase of certain brands of gasoline listed above will reliably keep consumers' money out of the hands of Middle Eastern oil producers.
3. The facts and figures are simply wrong
The most critical inaccuracy is this: Of the five or six companies lauded in these messages for allegedly importing no Middle East oil whatsoever, only two Sinclair and Sunoco actually have a right to be on that list. All the other companies do, in fact, use varying amounts of petroleum imported from the Gulf region.
I don't know about you, but I'd have to waste several tanks of "terrorism supporting" fuel just to get to the nearest Sinclair or Sunoco gas station. Wouldn't that be a wee bit counterproductive?
Here is the thread it was posted in earlier:
Where do you buy your gas? Which later turned into "It doesn't matter where you get it."
Sorry to rain on your parade bud.
Nice info, but we live in calif. Those companies don't exist here, just the camel jockey companies. Shell , chevron. What about 76 and am/pm
jordanpaulk:
Here is the thread it was posted in earlier:
Where do you buy your gas? Which later turned into "It doesn't matter where you get it."
Sorry to rain on your parade bud.
Who cares what those little third world people do.
Their people dont have enough financial impact to make a difference to us. scumbags.
I'll be looking for those gas stations too.
Well I'm going to boycott camels, towels, fan belts, funny mustaches, goat meat and sand.
I say lets hurry up and buy all their damn oil. Then when they are out we'll still have some!
(Or at least get serious about power cell technology!)
Also consider a boycott of French imports. Like what? Cheese, and croissants I guess.
Why don`t we just blow them up. I say kill `em all. Not Africa, at least not yet. A tribe from Niger is making me an Ivory handle for my six shooter out of a rhino horn. Then you can blow them up too.
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