Where to Buy Gas

Email | 10/25/10 | Email

[MattAMatt]

WHERE TO BUY AMERICAN GASOLINE. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW READ ON. Gas rationing in the 70's worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even have been good for us!

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? 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 want me, my family and my friends dead.

The following gas companies import Middle Eastern oil: Shell..................... 205,742,000 bbl Chevron/Texaco...144,332,000 bbl Exxon Mobil..........130,082,000 bbl Marathon/Speedway.117,740,000 bbl Amoco.....................62,231,000 bbl

CITGO oil is from Venezuela, the "President" is Dictator Hugo Chavez who openly hates America and vows to cause our economic destruction! (We pay Chavez's regime nearly $10 Billion per year in oil revenues!)

The U.S. currently imports 5,517,000 barrels of crude oil per day from OPEC. If you do the math at $70 per barrel, (today's price) that's over $386 million PER DAY($141 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're not careful and keep buying their products.

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 Maverick........................ 0 barrels Flying J. ....................... 0 barrels Valero............................. 0 barrels

*Murphy Oil USA* ......... 0 Note: Murphy is sold at Wal-Mart , the gas is from South Arkansas and fully USA owned and produced. *Not only that but they give scholarships to all children in their town who finish high school and are legal US citizens.

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.

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!! 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!!!!!!!

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 !!!!

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!

[MattAMatt]

Is this valid?

[Responsibility2nd]

Is this valid?

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It must be. You received it in an email. And I just read it.

[rightly_dividing]

This email is as old as dirt.

[IYAS9YAS]

No.

[PMAS]

Just never buy CITGO

[smokingfrog]

Sounds like an advert. for Walmart - Murphy oil.

Citgo does get its oil from Venezuela, I believe, but it is refined here.

[b4its2late]

It’s old.

[Codeflier]

Oil is fungible. Prices go up or down for all oil no matter where it comes from. You can’t really do targeted boycotts for commodities.

[PMAS]

By the way, this email is about 2 years old at least.
I just try to buy from American oil companies - you just don’t know what the real statistics - at least most of the monet stays in the US

[Hodar]

Do each of these fuel stations have their own oil refinery? Somehow, I sincerely doubt it. My understanding is that each gas station buys their fuel through a distributor, at the cheapest rate they can find.

The refineries buy the raw product, at the international rate. This is the latest data I have on who is selling the US oil. Source

[Fundamentally Fair]

Snopes says false: http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/saudigas.asp

[PMAS]

CITGO is owned by the Venezuelan government or Chavez directly

[cajuncow]

Citgo has a refinery in Lake Charles, LA.

[mnehring]

Is this valid?

I don't believe so. Most crude is bought on the open, auction markets irrespective of the country of origin (upstream). The companies such as Exxon/Mobile then refine it and sell it as petrol(downstream). At the refineries, you could have a mix of origin. The only part of that which may be accurate would be CITGO which controls both upstream and downstream (ie the Venezuelan government owns both the drilling and refining capacity).

I believe small producers like Murphy just contribute to the upstream totals but it all goes into the big mix (for lack of a better term) that everyone buys from. I seriously doubt Wal Mart buys all its gas from Murphy. At that, some checking and it seems Murphy only operates in 23 states. It also looks like Murphy is vested in Middle Eastern drilling as well so they are just part of the group that does import from the ME according to their own site.

http://www.murphyoilcorp.com/about/default.aspx

Just add that info you received to one more thing on the Internet that isn't accurate.

[thackney]

Very old and very fake

[deport]

Here’s an Oct. 2007 version of this email:

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/foreignoil.html

Here’s Snopes response:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/saudigas.asp

[seemoAR]

Walmart gas is ethanol enhanced around here. Cost less but miles per gallon goes down.

[IYAS9YAS]

Here’s an example for you - all the fuel that comes into the fuel terminal in Boise, Idaho, comes in via pipeline from Salt Lake City - as I understand it, none of the oil refined at this SLC refinery is from the middle-east, but it is from the northwest (including Canada). The fuel at the terminal in Boise is exactly the same. Unless the fuel has been trucked in from somewhere else, all fuel deliveries for all fuel retailers in the Boise area (including some in eastern Oregon) come from this terminal. The fuel sits in big tanks. The only thing that distinguishes one brand from another is the mix of chemicals (Techron, Clean System 3, etc...) added to the fuel as it is delivered from the terminal to the truck for delivery. Many of the smaller or unbranded stations don’t get these additional chemicals added, and pass on the savings to you.

[mc5cents]

Most people I know buy gas where it is sold at the lowest price. Around here in the Buffalo, NY area I buy my gas at Delta Sonic Car Wash stations. It is always the lowest. I have no idea where the gas comes from nor do I care.

[MattAMatt]

Thank you