the original post by cindy is well taken.
as far as "good honest men" working for the oil companies, that is a
good thing to
remember.however, most of the armies of the world are populated by such
good neighbors.
yet they go out and kil and slaughter each other and civilians.
"collateral damage".
"good honest men" are also paid highly in our society to lie and
manipulate.
the most obvious of these are ad men, lawyers, and most politicians.
my point is that we may need to take a larger moral scope than just how
civil
we are as neighbors and how much money we bring home.
On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:32 PM, James Holmes wrote:
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
