From: Mike Maynard (mike@wesleyscott.com)
Date: Mon Mar 28 2005 - 17:11:02 PST
Hate to break it to ya Terry, read at the link below...
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/saudigas.asp
-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Lane [mailto:tlane@mobynet.com]
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 2:14 PM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] MV, Gasoline/Diesel]
MV collectors and operators,
> The Gasoline Issue, is starting to really bug me.
>
> WHERE TO BUY YOUR GAS,
> THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW.
>
> Why didn't George W. and the other energy guru's, think of this?
> Gas rationing in the 80's worked even though we grumbled about
> it. It might even be good for us again!
>
> The Saudis are "boycotting" American goods.
> We should return the favor, BIGTIME!!!!!
>
> An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS from the stations that buy
their oil.
>
> 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 :
>
> 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
>
> If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18
> BILLION! Note: The price of oil is now over $50/barrel- - -increasing
> the take to about $30 Billion
>
> Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
>
> Citgo.......................0 barrels
> 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 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.
>
> Again, all you have to do is send this to 100 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 within the next
> eight days!
Thanks for the bandwidth, I hope it makes the SAUDI's and OPEC, suffer.
terry lane
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