On 30 May 2001, at 0:00, John D. Giorgis wrote:
> At 11:31 PM 5/29/01 -0400 Gary Nunn wrote:
> >
> >After reading this, I suspect that not purchasing gas on a certain
> >day would not be very effective...
>
> Especially since, in most places, the gas station is not making any
> money on the sale of gas. Most of the time, retail gasoline is a
> loss leader to get you into the convenience store.
>
> Just because you see "ExxonMobil" at your retail gasoline station,
> does not mean that the crude oil was drilled by ExxonMobil, or that
> the crude oil was refined into gasoline by ExxonMobil.
Of course, the petrol protests in the UK certainly WERE effective,
mainly because the spineless organisation that tries to pass itself
off as our government first tried ignoring the protesters, and when
they wouldn't go away, they caved in.
But that's another story....
The short protests DO play havock on the distribution side of the
industry, as there is a greater demand for petrol on the days before
and after the protest. Or so the explanation goes from my dad, who
works at the company who service 80%+ of the petrol pumps in the
UK.
I'm strongly enviromentalist, he basically worksfor big oil, although
the company is actually a branch of marconi..the "link" between
big oil and the pumps manufactured by other marconi companys
And people wonder why my dad and I don't get on.
Andy
Dawn Falcon
