Is there some place I can make a donation to help out the abused and under compensated international oil companies? JOH
-----Original Message----- From: The Hatzfeld's [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 4:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>OT to some. Mobil and Exxon Gas This old thing has been around for about 2 years. I think it's too simplistic to say since a product you are using costs more than you would like you then get others to help boycott it. I don't know where the hatred of oil companies come from. My dad worked for Mobil for 40 years and was friends with men from other companies since we lived overseas. They were all good, hard-working and honest men. Looking at the process of bringing the gasoline to us starts with the oil companies hiring competent and educated professionals like geologists and engineers to locate the oil, then building the drills and refineries to process it. Then the oil companies have a variety of different countries they have to deal with in order to just do business. Did you know some years ago that many of the countries where oil is drilled "nationalized" and so they were legally able to "steal" ALL of the oil companies equipment? I'd bet they still have occasions where they must deal with corruption. When the oil is ready for shipment, it's brought over in a tanker and distributed to eventually be sold at your local gas station. All things considered, we're not paying that much for the gas. Of course we'd all like to pay less for goods & services - just bought my first bottle of CS at the health food store costs more (2 oz. for $14) - let's get real here. Cindy
