Author Topic: Let's Put the Arabs out of Business...  (Read 509 times)

Offline muckmaw

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« on: February 20, 2003, 01:40:02 PM »
Cut and Paste this till your hearts content. E-mail it to everyone and their mother. I got this and I thought it was another BS chain E-mail. But I did some research, and placed some phone calls, personally. So Far, Hess, Citgo, and Sunoco check out. They DON'T BUY ANY OIL FROM THE MIDDLE EAST! LIke I said, I checked this out personally. If I could not verify it, I would not waste anyone's time.

Read on.

GASOLINE SOLUTION!

We CAN buy gasoline that's not from Middle East. Why didn't George W. think of this? 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 (for the period 9/1/00 - 8/31/01):
   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/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
   Hess....................0 barrels
   Citgo...................0 barrels
   Sunoco............. ..0 barrels
   Conoco............ ..0 barrels
   Sinclair............... 0 barrels
   BP/Phillips.......... 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 people will 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.  We are paying those terrorist 12 billion a day for gas.

Offline Nifty

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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2003, 01:52:14 PM »
I get my gas at Circle K.  Where do they get their gas from?
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Offline Kanth

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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2003, 01:52:53 PM »
this is a snopes but I'm too lazy to verify.
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Offline ra

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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2003, 02:09:16 PM »
Oil is a commodity.  No matter who you buy it from, it all comes out of the same market.

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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2003, 02:48:07 PM »
Quote
Originally posted by Kanth
this is a snopes but I'm too lazy to verify.


Yep. Its false.

Offline Toad

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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2003, 03:16:25 PM »
As Milo once told me:

"Imagine all the oil in the world is in one huge underground lake with separate limited straws to different countries."

Don't buy from one straw and a middleman will simply fill the need. The oil still gets bought, just indirectly."

How close was that Milo?
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Offline muckmaw

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« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2003, 03:24:48 PM »
I hate it when I screw up....

You guys are right...it's BS...but even Snopes says Sunoco does not by oil from the Middle East. But your right. If we all bought from Sunoco, they would have to buy from Exxon to make up the difference in Demand.

Here's the link. Sorry...

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/nogas.htm

Offline john9001

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« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2003, 03:26:59 PM »
just buy less gas, i only buy $10 gas at a time , so when they raise the price they don't make more money, they just sell less gas

what do you hate more , riding the bus or making arabs rich ?
« Last Edit: February 20, 2003, 03:29:59 PM by john9001 »

Offline ygsmilo

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« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2003, 03:43:36 PM »
Close enough Toad,,, oil is a commodity and when a buyer and seller agree on price and terms -  origin is usually not an issue unless there are govenment restictions or tarriffs in place.

My thought has always been to buy as MUCH oil as we can from the Arabs, the sooner they run out the quicker they become less of a problem.

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« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2003, 03:57:39 PM »
isn't there a bacteria that eats oil?
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Offline Vulcan

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« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2003, 04:03:19 PM »
BAH! FOOLS! IMBECILES! IGNORANT IDIOTS!

I think long term. By chewing up more gas I hope to deplete their oil reserves thus crippling the Middle East as a global economic player!

Watch a genius at work!

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