Posted on 04/09/2008 2:08:56 PM PDT by Dallas
WHERE TO BUY YOUR USA-GAS, THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON--
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.
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.
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
Also: Pilot, Flying J, Love's, RaceTrac, Valero.
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.
Too late, they started importing from the ME as well.
this is just stupid ...
#1 oil is fungible
#2 the downstreamers don’t buy crude from ANYWHERE, they buy refined products from midstreamers - who can mix crudes from multiple sources in any given depot
All the companies fill up at the same refineries, it is the additives added that make the difference.
Is this your way of forwarding the email to 10 of your friends to avoid bad luck? Are you sitting around waiting for the phone call from that “special someone” the email promised in exchange for forwarding it?
I read somewhere that a gas station up north, I think in Missouri, switched from Citgo to Marathon because he lost too much business for supporting Chavez, so it must work at some level...that is if we’re willing to stop into these gas stations and let them know we won’t be filling up with them because of where they get their gas/oil. Now if we can get the gas station owner in Missouri “enlightened about Marathon that should help there also.
I read it on the Internet, it must be true!!!!!
Citgo doesn’t import any Arab oil either.
How ‘bout that. Not a one of the alleged no-ME-importers is in Houston.
Maybe Googling “bp amoco” would be a start.
When you buy from one station because you are told it is US oil, the product you buy may have come from the very same pipeline batch as the product from the station you boycott because it is oil from the middle east.
A lot of gasoline retailers are independent business that have a marketing arrangement with the supplier.
For a variety of sound economic reasons, this is just silly.
I think the US should stop importing oil from outside of the western hemisphere for reasons of national security. The President could issue that exact finding, and direct the Commerce or Energy Department to determine a future date when zero imports from Arab OPEC would be allowed. Of course, this date would be chosen to allow an orderly transition to local sources. Until that date, oil imports would be gradually reduced, again to sustain an orderly market.
A number of conversion technologies have break-even costs at or below the present market price of oil. Such a policy decision may not result in higher fuel prices. It would certainly, and finally, result in energy independence.
Every president since Nixon has talked about energy independence. What have we gotten? For once thing, increased restrictions on where oil exploration and drilling was allowed. Setting a date certain for Zero Imports is the only bold move that will in fact achieve the desired result.
Valero is a Venezuelan company.
The lesser of two evils?
Sam’s Club
No, the company name is BP Amoco.
Answer: Since closest Flying J refinery is in Bakersfield, 250 miles away, it is likely to not be trucked up. In truth all major refineries contract with each other to mix gas to a proprietary blend.
Flying J, may contract with BP to produce a "Flying J" blend, which may contain some additives not used by BP. Thus BP has a tank where the additive is mixed and blended. This gas is then trucked to the local Flying J refineries.
Buying from a "Shell" station does not guarantee that a Shell refinery produced that gasoline.
I don’t mean to sound smarmy, but information like this is meaningless. Crude Oil is fungible...that means that if the Middle East doesn’t sell oil to a US company, then they will sell it to someone else. Any American who tries to avoid buying Middle East oil products simply doesn’t hurt the Middle east oil producers.
Additionally, it is common for one company to sell gasoline (or other refined products) to another company after it is refined or even ‘at the rack’. Thus a company that doesn’t buy crude oil from the Middle East probably does sell some gasoline at their stations that came from Middle East oil.
We need to start drilling, building refineries: making oil in our own backyard. Depending on our enemies (and our friends) for our life blood is stupid.
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