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Email response: WHERE TO BUY YOUR USA-GAS
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
&orefPlease note:
This was copied as-is. Any spelling or grammatical errors are by the original author
THE ORIGINAL EMAIL:
WHERE TO BUY YOUR USA-GAS
WHERE TO BUY YOUR USA-GAS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON--
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.
These 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
Citgo Gas comes from South America, from a Dictator who hates Americans.
Do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (Oil is now $90-$95 a barrel)
Here are some large companies that
DO NOT import Middle Eastern oil:
Sunoco................ 0 barrels
Conoco................ 0 barrels
Sinclair................ 0 barrels
BP/Phillips.......... 0 barrels
Hess.................... 0 barrels
ARC0................... 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.
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 a t 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 long 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
MY RESPONSE:
Please do not help the propagation of this kind of stuff. I can not tell you where it originates but nearly all of it makes very little, or no sense.
For starters, how is it now the Saudis that are trying to "...kill me, my family, and my friends..."? I thought it was Bin Laden/Al Queda that were trying to... err... I mean Saddam Hussein... or is it Iran? I can not keep track anymore. One thing is certain though, they have brown skin and a fucking diaper on their head right? Well, now it is the Saudis, and they are boycotting American goods eh? Like what? What American goods are they boycotting? Fast food and shitty television? Lame automobiles? Well one thing they are NOT boycotting is our fucking advanced weaponry, they love that shit, to the tune of some $20 Billion going to Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc.
EAT
SHIT
ASSHOLE
But hey, we have to maintain our top spot right?
Bombs for everyone!
So the solution posed by the author is to only buy gas that comes from companies not using Saudi oil. Well, I have a better idea. Why not support companies, political leaders, organizations, etc. that support development of alternative fuel sources? Why not just begin to shuck the yoke we have around our necks? The yoke being controlled by these oil companies. From the U.S. Department of Energy website "Oil is the lifeblood of America's economy."
Until that line is gone from that website, and gone in earnest, any proposition of boycott being passed around via email simply will not work, not that passing around emails will work anyway, but you get the idea.
Besides there are other things to consider, not just where the crude comes from. What about environmental impact and human rights conditions? Conoco and Phillips (now jointly ConocoPhillips as they merged in 2002) was picked as one of the worst oil companies operating in the U.S. by the Sierra Club. BP was not completely innocent either. Plus I find it funny since BP bought Amoco (on the do not buy list) back in 1998, not to mention it's acquisition of ARCO in the first half of 2000, which leads me wonder where and WHEN the hell this information is even coming from. Oh yeah, and guess where BP got their start. Iran. Funny that eh? BP controlling and operating the oil of Iran. They eventually got ousted when Mohammad Mossadegh nationalized Iran's oil, cutting out the multi-nationals. This, of course, was followed by the British Government setting up blockades to prevent them exporting ANY oil (if they couldn't get a cut then no one will), and then teaming up with the U.S. to perform a little Coup d'état action. Just to further piss on BP's parade of patriotism, the attachment contains some import information that I found via the U.S. Department of Energy website. (scroll to the bottom to see attachment)
An interesting thing too is that Citgo was mentioned in the list of companies you should NOT buy from. Not because they import oil from Saudi Arabia but because "Citgo Gas comes from South America, from a Dictator who hates Americans."
Jesus fucking Christ.
When is this whole Hugo Chavez evil dictator bullshit going to stop? This is an entirely different rant so I will try to be brief.
First of all, he was freely elected, several times in fact. I cannot think of any dictator that can claim such a thing. One big thing that he did as president was to nationalize Venezuela's oil revenues. That is, money made from Venezuela's oil belongs to Venezuela, not multi-national oil companies. Needless to say, U.S. interests took a big hit on that one. That is why "we" hate Chavez. "We" want our cut. And do you know what Chavez did with that money? He used it to provide free reading, writing, and arithmetic lessons to hundreds of thousands of the nation's poor. He also provided them with healthcare in addition to protections for indigenous peoples and their land. Boy, what a jerk huh? I am not saying he is perfect by any means, no politician is, but for fuck's sake... give it a rest, or come up with some REAL reasoning.
Okay, I will wrap this up now so I hope we all learned something here. Mostly I hope we learned what to do when this kind of stuff finds it's way to our inbox. Tell whoever sent it to you, to send any further nonsense straight up their ass, back to the perilous dark from whence it came.
Please note, that this is NOT directed at any of you, you are my brothers and sisters. It is directed at the originators and manufacturers of bullcrap.
Hope all is well with you.
Peace.
The attachment. Click to see full-size
richter
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
&orefPlease note:
This was copied as-is. Any spelling or grammatical errors are by the original author
THE ORIGINAL EMAIL:
WHERE TO BUY YOUR USA-GAS
WHERE TO BUY YOUR USA-GAS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON--
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.
These 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
Citgo Gas comes from South America, from a Dictator who hates Americans.
Do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (Oil is now $90-$95 a barrel)
Here are some large companies that
DO NOT import Middle Eastern oil:
Sunoco................ 0 barrels
Conoco................ 0 barrels
Sinclair................ 0 barrels
BP/Phillips.......... 0 barrels
Hess.................... 0 barrels
ARC0................... 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.
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 a t 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 long 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
MY RESPONSE:
Please do not help the propagation of this kind of stuff. I can not tell you where it originates but nearly all of it makes very little, or no sense.
For starters, how is it now the Saudis that are trying to "...kill me, my family, and my friends..."? I thought it was Bin Laden/Al Queda that were trying to... err... I mean Saddam Hussein... or is it Iran? I can not keep track anymore. One thing is certain though, they have brown skin and a fucking diaper on their head right? Well, now it is the Saudis, and they are boycotting American goods eh? Like what? What American goods are they boycotting? Fast food and shitty television? Lame automobiles? Well one thing they are NOT boycotting is our fucking advanced weaponry, they love that shit, to the tune of some $20 Billion going to Saudi Arabia, UAE, etc.
EAT
SHIT
ASSHOLE
But hey, we have to maintain our top spot right?
Bombs for everyone!
So the solution posed by the author is to only buy gas that comes from companies not using Saudi oil. Well, I have a better idea. Why not support companies, political leaders, organizations, etc. that support development of alternative fuel sources? Why not just begin to shuck the yoke we have around our necks? The yoke being controlled by these oil companies. From the U.S. Department of Energy website "Oil is the lifeblood of America's economy."
Until that line is gone from that website, and gone in earnest, any proposition of boycott being passed around via email simply will not work, not that passing around emails will work anyway, but you get the idea.
Besides there are other things to consider, not just where the crude comes from. What about environmental impact and human rights conditions? Conoco and Phillips (now jointly ConocoPhillips as they merged in 2002) was picked as one of the worst oil companies operating in the U.S. by the Sierra Club. BP was not completely innocent either. Plus I find it funny since BP bought Amoco (on the do not buy list) back in 1998, not to mention it's acquisition of ARCO in the first half of 2000, which leads me wonder where and WHEN the hell this information is even coming from. Oh yeah, and guess where BP got their start. Iran. Funny that eh? BP controlling and operating the oil of Iran. They eventually got ousted when Mohammad Mossadegh nationalized Iran's oil, cutting out the multi-nationals. This, of course, was followed by the British Government setting up blockades to prevent them exporting ANY oil (if they couldn't get a cut then no one will), and then teaming up with the U.S. to perform a little Coup d'état action. Just to further piss on BP's parade of patriotism, the attachment contains some import information that I found via the U.S. Department of Energy website. (scroll to the bottom to see attachment)
An interesting thing too is that Citgo was mentioned in the list of companies you should NOT buy from. Not because they import oil from Saudi Arabia but because "Citgo Gas comes from South America, from a Dictator who hates Americans."
Jesus fucking Christ.
When is this whole Hugo Chavez evil dictator bullshit going to stop? This is an entirely different rant so I will try to be brief.
First of all, he was freely elected, several times in fact. I cannot think of any dictator that can claim such a thing. One big thing that he did as president was to nationalize Venezuela's oil revenues. That is, money made from Venezuela's oil belongs to Venezuela, not multi-national oil companies. Needless to say, U.S. interests took a big hit on that one. That is why "we" hate Chavez. "We" want our cut. And do you know what Chavez did with that money? He used it to provide free reading, writing, and arithmetic lessons to hundreds of thousands of the nation's poor. He also provided them with healthcare in addition to protections for indigenous peoples and their land. Boy, what a jerk huh? I am not saying he is perfect by any means, no politician is, but for fuck's sake... give it a rest, or come up with some REAL reasoning.
Okay, I will wrap this up now so I hope we all learned something here. Mostly I hope we learned what to do when this kind of stuff finds it's way to our inbox. Tell whoever sent it to you, to send any further nonsense straight up their ass, back to the perilous dark from whence it came.
Please note, that this is NOT directed at any of you, you are my brothers and sisters. It is directed at the originators and manufacturers of bullcrap.
Hope all is well with you.
Peace.
The attachment. Click to see full-size
richter