From: Hutterer, John (MPAU) (john.hutterer@smiths-medical.com)
Date: Mon Mar 28 2005 - 12:20:34 PST
Terry,
Before you post stuff like this, you might want to check the facts. I
always do, and it's amazing how many "factual" items are totally bogus.
Go to:
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/foreignoil.html
You'll find that the ideas that were proposed in the email that you
forwarded have no basis in fact, and are completely impractical, too.
John
John Hutterer
Sr. Eng. Lab Tech.
Smiths-Medical (Deltec)
651-628-7107
-----Original Message-----
From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On
Behalf Of Terry Lane
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 1:14 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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