Avoid Major Oil Companies!

Subject: AVOID major oil companies!






This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day"



The novelist George Eliot once said that "it is never too late to become what you might have been."

 

That's not how Snopes sees it, and I agree - it would only make the
situation worse:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/gasout.asp

Mike

 

A little thought might help.

If you boycott the major oil brands, they will sell their refined gas to
the minor oil distributors.

just business, you know.

The only ones you hurt will be the franchisees who own the local filling
stations.

j

 

And they'll laugh at this one too, the oil all comes from the same few
places, the only way to hurt the oil companies is to consume less of the
product. Don't like the price of gas, don't drive a car, it's that simple.

 

$1.25 au a litre which at 4.56 litres to the gallon is expencive .But as we
export sweet crude and import tar oila go figure .world parity means
although we have nothing to do with the US oil ,we still pay what the
countries who dont have oil ,pay which is a rip off .."Ralf"

 

Still HALF the price of petrol in the UK so whats your worry?

 

the only way to "exercise our muscle" as consumers,
is to pick carefully what, where, and how much of a product
we buy...If everyone cuts back, say 25% (on gas)...we
could put a real "dent" in the demand for oil....Its about
the only power folks have in a oil based economy.....imho...

 

We tend to think of America's cars, small trucks and SUVs as being the
lion's share of oil consumption. Although it is the largest single category,
it is less than half the US oil consumption.
(http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/quickfacts/quickoil.html) A whole lot of oil is
used in heating and commercial transportation - trucks, trains, airplanes,
ships.... And although the US is the largest importer of oil, it isn't the
only importer of oil. Since US gasoline is only about 1/9 of the world
production (http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/ipsr/t22.xls), reducing that by 25%
affects world oil demand less than 3% - hardly a bump in the landscape. If
every gasoline vehicle in the US were taken off the road altogether, world
demand would be cut a scant 11%.

Mike

 

What a bunch of idiots. If enough people reduce their consumption of
fuel the cost will come down, but selective purchasing from particular
companies or on particular days is not going to due a darn thing.

John

 

Except drive prices up across the board due to increased overhead in
shifting resources around to fuel stations people are buying from.

Of course in the real world only a small percentage of people are stupid
enough to try to attempt such a scheme so there'll be no real effect.

 

A note to the real idiots,
The real morons are those who sit by and accept oil company price rip offs
without question. President Bush said he would have zero tolerance for
price gougers as a result of the storm, guess Oil Company's and energy
providers in general are exempt?

Dale P.........

 

The oil companies gouge, no question about it, but what's anyone to do?
Seriously, they know people need oil, they'll laugh at any silly schemes
that people come up with because they know they'll have no effect.
Government regulation is the only way to make a difference and that won't
happen because so many in the upper government made their fortunes from oil.

 

Hmmm, supply goes down, price goes up. Economics 101.

The problem isn't the oil companies, the problem is that people keep
increasing their consumption.

John

 

Correct, and our bargain gasoline is one reason why the roads are
infested with 3-ton 15 MPG unstable fatmobiles.
Personally, I wouldn't mind if gas prices climbed to around $4.00 per
gallon, and stayed there, which should reduce consumption.

 

"The problem isn't the oil companies, the problem is that people keep
increasing their consumption. "

i agree...demand must drop before prices will change.....conservation,
new technology, whatever....if demand drops say 25%...the prices will
retreat...imho.....(easy to say, hard to do).........

 

As we have an expanding economy, demand can't go down - it will only go
up. The problem isn't the amount of oil (imho) the crude oil price
have been driven up by speculators. The challange is refining capacity
and the hundred different gas formulations that the too few refineries
have to produce.

 

Dano,

Maybe the stock speculators make up for the energy costs with their
dividends. Maybe a reduction in energy stock trading would slow down the
escalating price of energy. Just a thought?

Dale P..........

 

Dano..>>

"As we have an expanding economy, demand
can't go down - it will only go up"....

are you sporting a pair of crystal balls??

 

A better, similar idea is the "buycott" currently in progress.
Instead of just avoiding the two biggest companies and buying from
smaller ones that are often as bad, liberals and progressives are
buying gas from CITGO only, because CITGO is owned by Venezuela.
The government of Venezuela, while not ideal, is doing a lot to
help the poor not just in their own country, but in Latin America
in general. If this isn't enough for you, the Bush administration
hates them. So if you aren't a "Bushie", consider 'buycotting'
CITGO.

And yes, I realize that some CITGO stations buy oil from other
sources. Most don't. We do what we can.
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http://freevision.org/michael/index.html

 

They all will if nobody else buys the oil, it's a valuable commodity in a
free market, it will be sold wherever people are buying it from the least
expensive source.

Of course as I said earlier, most people can plainly see that this whole
joke will accomplish nothing so the vast majority will get gas at the same
places they always do for whatever reason they choose them, be it location,
price, or some other silly preference.