Gasoline solution? Email chain letter urges recipients to boycott gasoline from companies that purchase crude oil from Saudi Arabia / the Middle East ... Boycott Gasoline Made from Saudi (Middle Eastern) Oil...
urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-boycott-oil.htm urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-boycott-oil.htm
Boycott The Oil Companies Buying Middle Eastern Oil and We'll Stop Funding Terrorism and Keep the Gas Prices down-Truth! & Fiction! ... Marathon purchased 10,710,000 in Middle Eastern oil. Sunoco purchased none from the Middle East. Conoco purchased 523,000 from the Middle East. Sinclair-We didn't find any figures.
www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/oilterrorism.htm www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/o/oilterrorism.htm
For more than half a century, the world has understood the problems related to air pollution and diminishing resources. ... Imported Oil ... As seen by the chart below, Motiva Enterprises, LLC, is by far and away the largest importer of oil from the Persian Gulf. Its products are sold as Texaco and Shell gasoline.
www.soaringspiritwithtears.com/boycott/boycott_imported... www.soaringspiritwithtears.com/boycott/boycott_importedoil.html
The Saudis are boycotting American goods. We should return the favor. An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS. ... Although the message quoted above doesn't address where (outside of the Middle East) we import oil from, many people come away from reading it with the mistaken impression that most of the USA's crude oil...
www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/saudigas.asp www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/saudigas.asp
Citgo is a U.S. refining and marketing firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company. Money you pay to Citgo goes primarily to Venezuela — not Saudi Arabia or the Middle East. There are 14,000 Citgo gas stations in the US. ... So this is the opposite of a boycott. Call it a BUYcott.
www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/citgo.asp www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/citgo.asp
No, some Middle East oil makes it to the US. Most of it goes to Japan and whatnot, though. Though, as others have ably pointed out on this thread, this boycott is pointless as oil is a fungible resource.
www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/846030/posts
If some one is believing at people,s power in concern of oil boycott, then he don,t ... Some oil companies have contracts to pump oil out of middle east oil fields. Some don't. All take advantage of open markets to cover shortfalls from their own productions, but most keep to their own oil fields. All things being equal,
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In Reply to: want to boycott middle east oil? posted by hit em where it count$ on April 11, 2003 at 15:17:53: ... Urban Legend - boycotting Middle East oil ... Subject: Re: Re: want to boycott middle east oil?
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Headline: NATO / Middle East War / Oil Boycott ... NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) foreign mins.' meeting in Brussels, Belgium, to be good time for revitalizing relations Mtg. to include joint US, European response to Arab oil boycott. United States officials admit Arab oil boycott cuts back United States...
openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1973-11/1973-11-21-CBS-12... openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1973-11/1973-11-21-CBS-12.html
Headline: Kissinger / Middle East Policy / Arab Oil Boycott / Abba Eban ... (Studio) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger outlines United States policy with regard to Israel and Mid. E. in wake of Arab oil boycott. REPORTER: John Chancellor...
openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1973-11/1973-11-21-NBC-14... openweb.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/1973-11/1973-11-21-NBC-14.html