TIPS ON PUMPING GAS

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[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Can’t imagine someone being that rude on purpose.

I can’t imagine two people being so ignorant on purpose.

How long ‘till we see you two yucking it up over an email you just got regarding a rant by George Carlin with “Bad American” in the title....

[mupcat]

There is no company called BP/Phillips.

Used to be or better said there should be a comma between the BP and Phillips. That's why Snopes said it was multiple. Not entirely false having some basis of truth.

[count-your-change]

And please send

please bury this “tip” deeper than the storage tanks.

[Dog Gone]

BP and Phillips never merged. BP merged with ARCO and Vastar, and Phillips merged with Conoco.

So there’s no basis of truth.

The only thing that remotely supports it is that BP merged with ARCO, which would have combined the BP properties with the ARCO properties on the North Slope of Alaska. However, the SEC said that would be too much consolidation in one area, and BP was forced to sell off the ARCO properties in Alaska to Phillips in order to get regulatory approval for the merger.

Phillips was a third party to that transaction.

[mupcat]

BP and Phillips never merged.

That's why I said to put a comma between the two. Two separate companies.

[mupcat]

:-) Nope, not going to play with you. Not worth it.

[grellis]

I, for one, appreciate the information--particularly about which companies import from the mideast and Venezuela.

Thanks!

[VeritatisSplendor]

I’m guessing that tanks are deep enough that ground temperature is fairly constant day to day. That’s why I like to buy my gas in the winter and take advantage of the seasonal changes. ;)

Mrs VS

[Dog Gone]

And yet, Amoco and BP ARE the same company. One imports and the other does not?

Tnis email is contradictory on its face.

[thackney]

Why do you appreciate a bunch of lies, including the information about who imports what?

[Arrowhead1952]

Mark for later

[csvset]

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[John W]

That poster, like myself, may have actually read the entire snopes review which verified parts of the emails, including parts of who imports from where, as actually being true.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>That poster, like myself, may have actually read the entire snopes review which verified parts of the emails, including parts of who imports from where, as actually being true.

The moronic thing about this is the last three paragraphs in the original post. Now go back to my original reply in the thread. Talk about inconvenient truths...

[grellis]

That poster, like myself, may have actually read the entire snopes review which verified parts of the emails, including parts of who imports from where, as actually being true.

Yes, I did...but I have trained myself over the years to not respond to certain kinds of posts--most of them on this thread, for instance.

Do you ever get the feeling some folks have too much time on their hands?

Happy Easter!

[thackney]

Given that some of the companies don't exist, some where shown combined in ways they are not, it was obvious that it was based on false information.

What is less obvious is that a given gasoline retail station does not only sell gasoline from that company's refineries.

I have been on the design and construction team for several truck loading station in multiple states. These are the distribution points for trucks loading fuel to gasoline service station in the area.

All of the companies in the area load from the same gasoline source. Each of the major companies provide additives to squirt into the base gasoline to make their custom formula. But the source of the gasoline, refined at refinery feeding the refined products pipeline that fills the tanks at the truck loading station is all from the same oils.

Just because a companies does not import crude oil from the Middle East does not mean that all of their service station do not sell gasoline refined from oil brought from the Middle East.

Perhaps you think people spending time correcting the false information posted on the Internet are wasting their time. I find it more disturbing that people not only post those lies but them defend them in ignorance.

As an example, ConocoPhillips and BP (incorrectly called Conoco and BP/Phillis) both are importers of crude oil from Iraq, Oman and Saudi Arabia.

For that information and more, you can find list of what each company imports each month from each country at:

Company Level Imports Historical
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/cli_historical.html

All of 2006 can be found in a single spreadsheet:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/historical/2006/data/impa06d.xls
The top of each column lets you filter this massive amount of data such that you can see only the crude oil imported by BP.