buy AMERICAN gas!

[Black'03LevelII]

just got this in an email and found it rather interesting, so I thought I should share with you all.

Subject: Buy American gas!
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> WHERE TO BUY AMERICAN GASOLINE. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON.
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> Gas rationing in the 70's worked even though we grumbled about it. It might
> even have been good for us!
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> 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?
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> 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:
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> Shell.................................... 205,742,000 barrels
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> Chevron/Texaco.................... 144,332,000 barrels
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> Exxon /Mobil........................ 130,082,000 barrels
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> Marathon/Speedway............. 117,740,000 barrels
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> Amoco.................................. 62,231,000 barrels
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> 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!)
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> 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.
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> Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
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> Sunoco......................... 0 barrels
> Conoco........................ 0 barrels
> Sinclair....................... 0 barrels
> BP / Phillips................ 0 barrels
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> Hess. ............................. 0 barrels
> ARC0............................. 0 barrels
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> Maverick......................... 0 barrels
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> Flying J. .......................... 0 barrels
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> Valero............................ 0 barrels
> Murphy Oil USA * ............. 0 Sold at Wal-Mart , gas is from South
> Arkansas and fully USA owned and produced.
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> * *Not only that but they give scholarships to all children in their
> town who finish high school and are legal US citizens..
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> 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.
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> 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!!
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> 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!!!!!!!
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> 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 !!!!
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> 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!
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> Charlene Henrique
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> "When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but
> Merely opening your hands to receive something better"
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[LIMA BEAN]

Now thats takin a bite out of crime.

 

[n9emz]

It's a fine premise but it doesn't hold up at the retail level. The demand for fuel will remain constant and OPEC oil is required to meet that demand. You won't hurt the Big Erl OPEC importers as they will just sell to the Domestics. What you would accomplish is putting those "offending" brand retailers out of business who couldn't succeed in re-branding as "good guy" domestic retailers.

 

[Will]

We're going to be at war over mid-eastern oil with China in 15-20 years unless we get really good at cracking shale oil. This is why China has been rapidly ramping up their military and building carriers and such. With us changing our regime's every 4-8 years we haven't done a good job with long-term vision. You can't have a long term policy with people always trying to get elected.

LINK to where our oil comes from.

List of OPEC countries.

 

[Donnie strickland]

Emails like this circulate from time to time. The fact is, any gas station you use -- regardless of brand -- sells gas made from Middle Eastern oil. Gasoline is a commodity; more specifically, a fungible commodity -- which means that an oil company that has an excess supply of gasoline on one day sells that supply to other oil companies. All gasoline is the same until just before it is loaded onto the delivery truck, when the additives (Techron, for example) are put in. So the gas you buy could -- and does -- come from anywhere, and there's no way for us to tell its origin. The gas station brand has no substantial relation to country of origin. Citgo, for example, does get a lot of its oil from Venezuela, but they also use oil from other countries, including the Middle East.

It's a nice thought, but it's not really workable.

 

[LearjetMinako]

I really don't know where our gas comes from at the station I work at. 2-3 times a day, we need to re-fill the tanks. People are just wanting their gas and don't care too much where it comes from. But a common question is being asked a lot more lately. Now people are wondering if our gas contains ethonal. It doesn't, but that could still change.

 

[Donnie strickland]

An increasingly common question, indeed. Within the last 6 months almost all the stations in this area of Alabama (East Central) have started selling a 10% ethanol blend, Wal-Mart included.

 

[reno]

An increasingly common question, indeed. Within the last 6 months almost all the stations in this area of Alabama (East Central) have started selling a 10% ethanol blend, Wal-Mart included.

Same here in Florida. I live in Central Florida.

 

[blackbronc]

It's not OPEC or Treehuggers or the oil companies that are causing this. It's Wall Street speculators. watch Cspan senate hearings. Big oil and OPEC are just willing beneficiaries of deregulated Wall Street Greed. Check Texas Republican Phil Grams record of deregulaing all finance rules in the late 90s. In addition there is no way anyone could buy only "American Gas". it's all blended together for quaility control purposes, shipped in the same trucks and pipelines and then blended with each marketers special blend of additives.

 

[Simple_serf]

Our local refinery in Warren has been pushing that their brand of gas (Kwik-Fill) is only made from North American Crude oil.

To my knowldege that plant mainly refines oil from local oil production (NW PA, SW NY).