I received this chain letter in the mail from a family member. Obviously the original sender isn't 100% clear on who exactly is after the killing of Americans, or that the majority of oil used in America is drilled in America. However, this was still pretty intresting.
QuoteGASOLINE SOLUTION!
We CAN buy gasoline that is not from the Middle East. Gas rationing in the
80's worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even be good for us!
The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor.
An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS. Every time you fill up the
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 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
If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION!
I think it is up to $40 /barrel now!!! THINK ABOUT IT!!
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.............
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers.
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
least 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 peoplewill have been contacted .
If it goes one level further, you guessed it.....THREE HUNDRED MILLION
PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. How much would all
that take?
If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day all
300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next eight
days!
I would like to add one thing to this.
GODBLESS AMERICA!
We are paying those terrorist 12 billion a day for gas.. I think the time
has come for us to take a stand and do what this article suggests.
Chain letter, ugh. If you didn't reply with a letter telling them to go fuck themselves and never send you this shit again than you're just as bad as them!
Quote from: Hitmen on July 28, 2004, 08:15 PM
Chain letter, ugh. If you didn't reply with a letter telling them to go fuck themselves and never send you this shit again than you're just as bad as them!
It was from my grandmother, I'll pass.
Quote from: hismajesty[yL] on July 28, 2004, 08:22 PM
Quote from: Hitmen on July 28, 2004, 08:15 PM
Chain letter, ugh. If you didn't reply with a letter telling them to go fuck themselves and never send you this shit again than you're just as bad as them!
It was from my grandmother, I'll pass.
Wuss.
Quote from: hismajesty[yL] on July 28, 2004, 08:22 PM
Quote from: Hitmen on July 28, 2004, 08:15 PM
Chain letter, ugh. If you didn't reply with a letter telling them to go fuck themselves and never send you this shit again than you're just as bad as them!
It was from my grandmother, I'll pass.
And that is why my grandmother doesn't know my aim screen name or my email adress.
Quote from: Forged on July 28, 2004, 09:54 PM
Quote from: hismajesty[yL] on July 28, 2004, 08:22 PM
Quote from: Hitmen on July 28, 2004, 08:15 PM
Chain letter, ugh. If you didn't reply with a letter telling them to go fuck themselves and never send you this shit again than you're just as bad as them!
It was from my grandmother, I'll pass.
And that is why my grandmother doesn't know my aim screen name or my email adress.
Because you don't want her sending emails about which gas companies import fuel from where? My grandparents rarely email me, so I don't mind.
Coincidentally, the two closest gas stations to my house are a Citgo and a BP.
Wait. Something's wrong. BP actually sells Amoco-branded gasoline, the two companies merged and many stores labeled "Amoco" turned into "BP". If you look closely at the pump, the gasoline is still Amoco-branded. Amoco imports Middle Eastern oil, BP does not.. what's going on? I think this document is a bit outdated.
w00t I always use "Huskey" and "Mohawk" both are non Middle Eastern based. ;D
Quote from: Stealth on July 28, 2004, 11:55 PM
Coincidentally, the two closest gas stations to my house are a Citgo and a BP.
Wait. Something's wrong. BP actually sells Amoco-branded gasoline, the two companies merged and many stores labeled "Amoco" turned into "BP". If you look closely at the pump, the gasoline is still Amoco-branded. Amoco imports Middle Eastern oil, BP does not.. what's going on? I think this document is a bit outdated.
Amoco? Is that a different brand than AAMCO?
Double A, MCO.
Quote from: hismajesty[yL] on July 28, 2004, 08:08 PM
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
Citgo....................0 barrels
Sunoco............. .0 barrels
Conoco............. ..0 barrels
Sinclair............... 0 barrels
BP/Phillips.......... 0 barrels
Hess...................0 barrels
Companies importing from countries claimed to associate with terrorists include:
Hess, BP, Phillips, Conoco, Sunoco, Citgo, Marathon, Exxon, Chevron, Shell
Data for May (apologize for the bad alignment - forum just doesn't like columns):
R_S_NAME ALGERIA EGYPT IRAQ SAUDI ARABIA Total
AMERADA HESS CORP 1314 1314
ATLANTIC TRDG & MKTG INC 141 141
ATOFINA PETROCHEMICALS INC 623 2052 500 3175
BP PRODTS N AMER INC 70 776 2436 3282
BP WEST COAST PRODTS LLC 1070 1299 2369
CHEVRON CORP 383 4137 6565 11085
CITGO PETRO CORP 1119 1119
CONOCO INC 551 551
DOW HYDROCARBONS & RESRCS INC 1533 1533
ENTERPRISE CO INC 146 146
EQUISTAR CHEMICALS LP 2670 2670
EXXONMOBIL CO USA 5524 3388 8912
EXXONMOBIL OIL CORP 1436 524 1960
FLINT HILLS RESOURCES LP 516 516
HUNT CRUDE OIL SUPPLY CO 447 447
LION OIL CO 500 500
LYONDELL CITGO REFG LP 359 359
MARATHON ASHLAND PETRO LLC 1433 5020 6453
MOTIVA ENTERPRISES LLC 919 15870 16789
PHILLIPS 66 CO 171 1101 1272
PHILLIPS PETRO CO 563 563
PREMCOR REFG GROUP INC THE 2598 2598
SABIC MKTG AMERICAS INC 87 87
SEA-3 OF FLORIDA INC 418 418
SHELL CHEM LP 1819 1819
SHELL CHEM YABUCOA INC 615 615
SHELL US TRADG CO 774 130 348 1252
SUNOCO INC 2071 2071
TESORO PETRO CORP 351 351
VALERO MKTG & SUPPLY CO 1699 298 2017 4909 8923
WARREN G E 514 514
VITOL S A INC 387 387
Total 15395 812 20891 47093 84191
I could see the CEO of one of the companies listed as not getting their oil from the Middle East as the originator of this chain letter.
I dunno about you guys but hess is the best. I buy all my gas from them. The reason they rule is they are the cheapest gas station (consistantly, I mean they always seem to be atleast 1 cent cheaper then the rest) in my area, and they are the closest to my house.
I've never seen a Hess gas station.
Quote from: Adron on July 29, 2004, 10:05 AMData for May (apologize for the bad alignment - forum just doesn't like columns):
Try using PRE tags instead?
Quote from: Grok on July 30, 2004, 05:45 AM
Quote from: Adron on July 29, 2004, 10:05 AMData for May (apologize for the bad alignment - forum just doesn't like columns):
Try using PRE tags instead?
Changed the color, but didn't help. The forum does weird things to consecutive whitespaces.
Quote from: Adron on July 30, 2004, 11:19 AM
The forum does weird things to consecutive whitespaces.
Why must everybody be so racist nowadays :'(
I get my gas at...
GAS AMERICA!
(http://images.glowingpenguin.com/Photography/2004-07-31/IMG_0789_568.jpg)
Well actually I don't, mostly because this is in China Town... :P
I get my gas from Arco who are owned by BP. :)
2.15 ouch :(
It's finally down to 1.95 here, that's the cheapest I've seen in a while.
bah! we're lucky if we can get gas for less than $2.20...
gas is ~$1.79 here.
Georgia has one of the lower Gas Taxes in the Country. I see it from as low as $1.70 (when there are several stations nearby competing) and as high as $1.85 (near busy interstate offramps).
Im in jacksonville and getting about 1.20.
I get my gas from Tom's Shell (http://www.merlin-net.com/commerce/edit_item.asp?SKU=69544&RecNo=22)... ;)
No seriously, I've pumped gas at that gas station. It's on the north side, next to the park at which the event (http://www.rhythmandbooms.com) I work for early in the summer takes place.
Edit: If you have problems with the first link, open it in a new tab/window.
They really want $25 for a 8x10 print of that?