04-13-2008, 06:52 AM | #1 | |||
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Where are you buying your gas from?
With the summer driving months approaching I thought I would pass along this info.
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04-13-2008, 07:05 AM | #2 |
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Besides the truth that Citgo gas comes exclusively from Venezuela, the rest of the chain mail is false.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/saudigas.asp
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04-13-2008, 07:26 AM | #3 | |
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The numbers may be outdated, but the message is still true. I avoid products made in China for humanitarian reasons, and I will now do my best to buy gas that does not come from the Middle East. According to your article both Sunuco and Sinclair do not get any of their oil from the Middle East. I have both those stations in my city, and from now on those are the stations I will be using.
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Here are the exact oil figures. Seems like you could find a station near you at or around 0% near you to fill your tank up.
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Although I am curious as to what happened to the worst offender Shell........................... 205,742,000 barrels and who exactly is VALERO MARKETING & SUPPLY CO? I see a lot of 0% by the Shell companies listed and I have never heard of Valero. And, which company listed is Amoco?
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04-13-2008, 07:48 AM | #5 |
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If it's cheaper, I'm buying it. I don't avoid products made in China or gas that was made from oil imported from the Middle East. On the oil note, c'mon, you're deluding yourself if you didn't think that the companies that don't import Middle Eastern oil wouldn't if they could.
If I tried to avoid every company that had something to do with something I didn't agree with, I wouldn't buy anything. Do you avoid Wal-Mart? What about McDonald's? Coke put Nutrasweet in their soda a while ago and didn't that help cause cancer? |
04-13-2008, 07:55 AM | #6 |
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Gift cards.
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04-13-2008, 09:12 AM | #7 |
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Petroluem is pretty dirty business, all told. If you think just being "from the Persian Gulf region" is the worst of it... well, you just haven't peeled the onion very far.
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04-13-2008, 09:30 AM | #8 |
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I get my gas from Taco Bell.
And Burger King onion rings
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04-13-2008, 09:31 AM | #9 | ||||
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That's a little bit of selective reading. How about: Quote:
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most important and the only reason I'm wasting my time posting in this is that some sort of boycott where you still buy as much gas as usual but only buy it from places you think are "clean" is horseshit. Quote:
You don't want to support the oil industry, go sell your SUV and buy something more fuel efficient, car pool, take public transportation, etc etc, and simply use less, instead of spreading around bullshit ideas. |
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04-13-2008, 09:35 AM | #10 |
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I watched a news article on oil as a tradeable commodity on 60 minuntes (or something like that) and it was basically impossible for an end user customer to avoid buying oil from any specific country. I couldn't begin to explain in accurate detail why that was, exactly, hopefully somebody smarter than me could explain it in some layman detail. Last edited by Dutch : 04-13-2008 at 09:36 AM. |
04-13-2008, 09:44 AM | #11 |
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We have Valero stations scatteered around upstate SC.
BP=Amoco. And there is the problem of tank farms. There is a huge tank farm in Charlotte NC that serves (I think Nc/SC/VA) basically there are hundreds of Silo size fuel tanks along the pipeline. All the gas is pumped into common tanks. So for example CITGO sends in 2,000,000 gallons their trucks can carry out 2,000,000 gallons. But it is not the same 2,000,000 gallons all the fuel is basically mixed together. Each of these tanks has literally dozens of decals on them. |
04-13-2008, 09:56 AM | #12 |
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Over here it seems like the most common gas stations are, in order: Valero, Chevron, then Shell. Valeros are everywhere and I don't see much else of anything besides those other two, except in run down small shop places, where I wouldn't ever go if my life depended on it. Several years ago many Chevron's disapeared and were replaced by Valeros. Maybe it's a west-coast thing.
Sunoco, I believe, is a big supplier in upstate NY, if I remember right. (wife is from up there, that's all I see when I go up there). |
04-13-2008, 11:23 AM | #13 |
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So...
If we stop buying oil from the Mid East, where is it going to come from?
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04-13-2008, 11:43 AM | #14 |
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04-13-2008, 11:44 AM | #15 |
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Canada, Venzuela, Mexico, Nigeria, etc. apparently.
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04-13-2008, 12:54 PM | #16 |
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The solution is apparent on how to avoid oil from other countries.
The United States must conquer the world.
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04-13-2008, 01:03 PM | #17 |
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When was there gas rationing in the United States in the 80s? I remember the long lines and the oil embargo from the 70s, but, can't seem to remember any gas rationing in the 80s.
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04-13-2008, 03:25 PM | #18 |
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isn't this being brought about the WrongWay?
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It's because oil companies sell oil to each other, depending on where it is needed. So if, say, BP is getting a ton of demand because people aren't going to, say, Shell, then BP will buy the oil from Shell to satisfy the demand. In the end it isn't going to make a difference.
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04-13-2008, 03:58 PM | #20 |
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I smell a shitty chain letter.
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Thanks, that sounds about right. |
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