Having been raised in the oil patch,,,, the profit on gas to the 'bad'oil companies is 4%,, that is 4 cents on the dollar for you public schooled.. All the rest is cost of doing business,,,however most is your goverments taxes..Remember expresident Bush added a 5 cent per gal.for three years before he left office..Why don't you boycott the goverment instead ??
----- Original Message ----- From: Dean T. Miller <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 4:00 AM Subject: Re: CS>An alternative suggestion (off topic) | On Wed, 2 May 2001 23:04:03 -0400, "spiroflx" | <[email protected]> wrote: | | >Perhaps you also have come to the conclusion that the current escalation of | >gas prices is a concerted plan on the part of the oil companies --- a | >monopolistic power play, pure and simple. | <snip> | >Here is the simple and doable idea. For the rest of the year 2001, just | >don't purchase gasoline from the biggest gasoline company in the world. | >This company is comprised of two companies --- EXXON and MOBIL. | | Won't work. | | First off, Exxon and Mobil don't even have stations in many parts of | the country (in my part of Iowa, for example). | | Second, Exxon/Mobil and other large refiners send their gasoline to | tank farms which then supply most of the local stations. Variations | in gasoline brand are made by adding substances to the gasoline at the | time the tank truck is filled or when the underground tanks at the | stations are filled. | | IOW, unless you know exactly which company fills the tank farms you | won't know who supplies the gas for your local station. | | So ... there's no way to boycott just one company. | | -- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF | | | -- | The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. | | To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: | [email protected] -or- [email protected] | with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. | | To post, address your message to: [email protected] | Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html | List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> |
