Buy only American gas hoax

Funny. I got this as an e mail once and somebody said it was a hoax.

Claim: Spurning gasoline from Shell, Chevron, Texaco, Exxon, and Mobil will cut off the funding of terrorists.

Status: False

Examples:

[Collected on the Internet, 2005]

WHERE TO BUY YOUR GAS,

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW.

READ ON

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 :

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! We're now at $53+ a barrel.

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
ARCO.......................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 10 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!

(I don't like chain e-mail, but I think this is worth while)

gas hoax
Thanks, Panzade, My bad!

You are right, SNOPES calls it a hoax.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/saudigas.asp

BBB

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/saudigas.asp



What the hell BB, we all want to do SOMETHING, right?

damn, and here i was getting all excited.


This reminds me of the " dont buy gas for a week" email..

lol...I just looked that one over too shewolf

shewolf
The degree of my pissness is that I expect to have to piss in my gas tank before the end of the month to keep my car going.

BBB

I''ll bet that jalopy will run like a dragster!

grain alcohol...
a little for the car,
a little for the driver
a little more for the car
all for the driver..


you know that diesels can be tweaked to run off of vegetable oil?

shewolf


Who has diesels? Rich BMW drivers?

BBB

Everyone here in cow-town Florida. Duelies and such. Farm folk

Panzade


Shucks! We won't get to see farmers peeing in their car's gas tanks?

BBB

By Saudi oil. Let them run out first.

In almost any basic economics text, oil is given as the most perfectly fungible commodity. Alaska oil goes to Japan; Saudi oil comes to the US. Makes no difference where it comes from.

Roger


I heard that most gas sold in New Mexico is produced in New Mexico. So why has gas shot up to over $3 per gallon in the last week?

BBB