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"Big Oil" consists of some of the hardest working people that you will ever meet......

Ms... Thank you for lecturing me and reminding me of my hard work on board tanker vessels for about 25 years, the last 13 before retirement on vessels owned by Exxon's filiate: ESSO! But according to the posters here, I don't know anything about this business!

It's really funny to see - here -, that when boycott of the Heinz companies was proposed, nearly "everybody" were sure on board that vessel!! Right?

You still don't seem to know anything about the business. Anyone who would post such garbage has a very myopic view of the oil business. Even cheap oil from the middle east is not cheap considering the requirements to get it out of the ground (gosps, wips, gips, wells, wellheads, flowlines, trunklines, transmission lines) and to terminals such as Ras Tanura (still in crude form) for tankers to take 8000 miles plus to further processing.

From their if you were such an enlightened genius, you would realize that what ever facility you offloaded to (involving further offshore to on shore pipeline facilities, storage facilities, coastal refineries and on and on) would add significantly to the cost.

Assuming there was no EPA blend requirements to drive-up regional costs further (for the children) a braniac such as yourself would realize that further transportation costs such as pipelines would be required to get it to the local terminal that in all likelihood involved 6 to 20 storage tanks.

Now, someone with all your years of experience would surely know that from the terminal, trucks distribute the fuels to the different service facilities where braniacs such as yourself stick the pump handle into your vehicle, scratch yourself and then complain about how big oil is ripping you off.

I'm sure someone like you of above average intelligence would realize (while they were scratching themselves) that the oil transport business is extremely complex and expensive business involving numerous capital and maintenance costs. And I am sure someone of your infinite experience in tanker transport would know about the different seasonal blending and transport requirements.

Once someone of such extensive wisdom (such as yourself) has finished pumping their gas and is in a hurry to get to their local national socialist workers party meeting you realize that you have been a total putz. You ponder a moment further whether you should have taken the red or the blue pill.

For fellow energy workers, I have tried to keep this simple so as not to totally confound our oh so wise DU posters.