My former high school football coach and now assistant principal sent me this email. I don't know if he composed it or did the research, but it's interesting. Cut and paste and pass it on... We CAN buy gasoline that's not from Middle East. Why didn't George W. think of this? Gas rationing in the 80's worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even be good for us! The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor. An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS. 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 (for the period 9/1/00 - 8/31/01): 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! 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 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.They report on a monthly basis. Keep this list in your car; share it with friends. Stop paying for terrorism............. 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 10 people. How much 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! Charles M. Curtis Assistant Principal Los Fresnos High School P.O. Box 309 Los Fresnos, TX 78566-0309
Now wait, I work at ChevronTexaco. I don't want everyone to stop buying our oil, I might lose my job.
Student. I was good friends with one that graduated in '95, her sister in '96, but they had a very younger brother who'd probably be close to high school age now. Actually, come to think of it, I think they moved to South Carolina while the girls were in college with me. Oops. Carry on.
You need to check the email of your old principal coach guy it probably reads: Charles.m.Curtis@conoco.com What do you think
There is a lot of info and graphics, but basically, BP, Citgo and Phillips DO import from the Middle East. Only around 30% of the US imports came from the ME as of 01/2002. Saudi Arabia: 16.9% Mexico: 15.1% Canada: 15.0% Venezuela: 14.4% Iraq: 11.4% Nigeria: 5.9.% Only 56% as opposed to 86% of oil imports came from Saudi Arabia and Iraq (probably less now). There's more as well, but the above is the gist. That email started floating around the Internet in 2002.
The gist is that the facts are wrong or outdated. Only 3 of the companies listed don't import from the Mid-East. If we boycotted the big guys it would put more demand on teh smaller companies which would probably force them to import from the Mid-east. Only 56% of the Mid-East oil comes from Saudi and Iraq (according to 2001 figures and that will be smaller since IRaq cut their exports). those are the major points of the snopes stuff.
well.. you can bet that if it's on snopes... it's probably too good to be true... from snopes: Claim: Spurning gasoline from Shell, Chevron, Texaco, Exxon, and Mobil will cut off the funding of terrorists. Status: False. there's a lot of info... here's the conclusion: Finally, what this scheme proposes is merely a symbolic solution rather than a practical one, because even if the USA stopped importing oil from the Middle East, other countries will still purchase it. (Japan alone, for example, generally buys as much or more oil from countries such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait than the USA does.) Complex problems rarely lend themselves to simple, painless answers. Simply shifting where we buy gasoline isn't nearly as good a solution as the much tougher choice of sharply curtailing the amount of gasoline we buy. Last updated: 23 April 2002
Plus, I don't recall any gasoline rationing in the 1980s. Even the gas lines of the '70s weren't really "rationing" in the way we would normally use that word. Just to nitpick the posted email further.
Okay. Let's all listen to Principal Skinner for advice on oil prices. What a damn fool. If he knew anything about the oil industry, he'd realize that the ME oil employs thousands of Americans from the Houston area alone. For example, my dad spent no less than 10-12 years working on pipeline projects for companies such as Saudi Aramco in the Middle East.
Yo Falcon's Talon, watch out when you're in an airport lounge. There are crazy med students that will harvest your kidneys while you're still alive! No, it's true! It happened to my wife's uncle's brother-in-law's cousin's boss's secretary's hairdresser!
