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Another reason this will not work is because different gas stations buy their gas from different companies. There is a gas terminal south of wheree I live and that is where all of our gas,fuel oil and diesel comes from not to mention a lot of the following counties too. We have a bunch of no name stations around here but the gas and oil can come from any of the terminals different companies which include Exxon Mobile and a few other well known names and I have even seen Exxon trucks in the no name places filling up their tankers. So no matter what it says on the station you still don’t know for sure who they are getting their gas from so you might still be buying Exxon gas.
When an Oil Company Owns a Chain of Gas Stations like (Quik Trip) and are allowed to lower their price in each new town they go to and use the profits from other parts of the country where they already dominate the market to cover the losses in the new town running the local business owner out of business or beats him down till he will not lower his pricing to compete for business THERE IS A PROBLEM.
When you drive from one end of town ( St Louis ) to the other even crossing a state line and ALL the gas stations change the price with in hours of each other THERE IS A PROBLEM.
When you hear the President say “I am against price gouging” then uses an illustration like “Take a group of gas stations in an aria it they all sell gas for 3.99 and one of them sells it for 4.99…. that will not be tolerated.” How stupid are we? THERE IS A PROBLEM. Then he explains how the gas prices are based on the futures market and expects us to blindly accept that line of crap and that he understands this but thinks there is nothing wrong with it THERE IS A PROBLEM.
I predicted at 2.99 a gallon of gas that at 4.00 per gallon people will drive off and they did. Now all most all gas stations have cameras and are now back to 4.00 per gallon but this time three cars will meet two to three blocks away from two different stations, One will be two white guys in a Green SUV and the other 4 black guys in a Red four door car, the third will be 4 Asian and or Hispanic girls in a white many van. The guys will cover the plates and go fill up then leave with out paying and meet the girls uncover the plates and all the guys will get in the White Mini van and girls will drive off in the Red Car and Green SUV. Many won’t think of that AS A PROBLEM.
At 5.00 there will be property damage taken out on the gas stations.
At 6.00 per gallon people that have lost all hope in life for what ever reason will kill someone in the petroleum industry or maybe the alleged owner of a gas station or gas company before killing them self. After this happens a few times by unrelated people that feel they have nothing to live for then and only then everyone will understand the fact that THERE IS A PROBLEM.
So do nothing and continue to pay? $70 a barrel for oil is not what Exxon pays, it is the number they use to charge you for refined gas.
I have read where Exxon is the biggest importer of foreign crude, crude that the Saudis produce for less than $3 a barrel and where Exxon get nearly 40% of their stock, you want to continue to give that kind of money to the Saudis? Don’t buy Exxon or Citgo and in 6 months gas will be $1.50/gal
Where is a good place to buy from?
no doubt that little gas stations buy from exxon…… and who can tell that
from the road…not the point !! just steer clear of exxon/mobil stations…even for a day !! they’ll feel it big time…..how can you not see that ??
i am working this boycott, i have not, and WILL NOT buy exxon or mobi, and i have fowarded the email over 100X…this can work, it is time to stop these greedy pigs……….and yes, i am editing my overall driving as much as i possibly can…….
WE!!! NEED TO ACT FAST ON THIS! EVEN IF THE ONES THAT CAN WALK OR RIDE A BIKE ,OR TAKE A BUS FOR ABOUT 4 WEEKS OR SO !I’M READY TO RIDE 56 MILES TO WORK ON MY BIKE! BE SAFE !! HAVE A NICE DAY!!rjrjr
I own and operate a gas station and just wanted to let the public know that the increase in gas prices does not make things better for us. Actually it hurts us more than the individuals. My gas sales in the last two years have decreased from 40-50%. The overall average profit margin per gallon sold used to be ten cents per gallon. Now I am selling it at break even to three cents per gallon profit! There are days where I do not even cover my payroll off of gas sales. A couple of weeks ago I actually was selling it at a 4 cent loss per gallon! So don’t be crying to your local gas station cashiers. I leave my daily faxed gas price sheet at the register for my customers to see with the whole breakdown of costs and taxes. Also know that about $.65 cents of the gas price you pay at the pump goes to taxes. For example, today my gas is selling for $2.99 at the sign leaving me a one penny per gallon profit margin. Where I used to sell 5800-7000 gallons, last nite I sold 3,100. Please believe me when I tell you its really bad for us to. We try to do the best we can for our customers. My next load that has already been delivered COSTS ME, $3.01. I still have a couple thousand gallons on the prior delievery which cost me $2.98. I will need to go up. I hope that everyone else goes up also. I don’t like to be the first one to go over the $3.00 mark for regular gas, but I realistically will have to go to at least $3.05. I hope this helps many of you see that it is not the gas station’s faults. I believe that customers should stay loyal to their neighborhood gas stations and continue to go where they get good customer service regardless if the guy across the street is 2 or 4 cents less. Another reason I say this is at my corner there is another gas station. 95% of the year I am able to be at least 3-4 cents cheaper. The last three months he has been cheaper the me with every once in a while he matches me. Now he is a corporate station with stations all over so he can make it up somewhere else. I am a dealer owned station so I cannot play these games. Although most of our customers have said they don’t care what we charge they will always stay with us, we have lost some sales to that I’m sure. Corporate gas companies such as Shell and Mobil, BP, who have corporate stations and dealer owned stations have a tendency of selling their gas much higher to the dealer owned stations. This hurts the mom and pop statins of America and makes more money for the oil companies (as if they weren’t making enough). So I urge you to find out if the station YOU go to is a corporate station or a independent. All Citgo stations are independent franchise owned stations. Citgo Petroleum does not operate any of the Citgo stations they are all individually owned. So start supporting the little guys in your area NOT the giant oil companies oveseas!
kiriaki if it is not the gas staions fault then why do you see them out changing the price on the sign three or four times a day? It might not be their fault but they are sure trying to get their cut!
If some could compile a list of gas stations that use exxon mobil gas issued by each state, it would be helpful.
kiriaki, thank you for your comments. I will take this into consideration when I buy gas in the future.
Yes, give us a list of those that are NOT EXXON/MOBIL, please.
did you read what the owner said?
50-60 cents per gallon is going in taxes!!!!!
so that means that govenment is taking 20% or more from each gallon.
big oil is only getting about 9% profit.
the little guy is getting next to nothing!!!
and on top of that govt has control of the formulations that gas has to be mixed into. if they deregulated that it would help lower gas prices.
so instead of looking at business to help with this problem WHY DONT WE LOOK AT BIG GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
call everyone who represents your state in DC and tell them to get their hands of the gas price NOW!!!!!!!!
We need to start something and fast. We are all Screwed
oh and by the way.
citgo is owned by Venezuela and thus owned by Chavez.
A business executive with decades of up-front experience in the upper reaches of Venezuelan business life and politics has told VHeadline.com that, in his considered opinion, President Hugo Chavez Frias has lost control of Venezuela’s state-owned oil corporation, Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) base of operations in Caracas.
“You can imagine what the CITGO executives are up to miles away from Caracas. Ray Nava is a mysterious person … the type that always appears behind the scenes.”
The business executive (whose identity we must protect for security reasons) has told VHeadline he does “not believe that Chavez knows what is happening in CITGO … he has his own agenda that keeps him busy in Caracas and elsewhere … he’s a workaholic who sleeps about five hours per night.”
“Unfortunately, however, Chavez is indeed ultimately responsible for CITGO … he has to report to the Venezuelan people about the success of the company that is reaping enormous profits from high oil prices.”
U.S. lawmakers have warned that Chavez’s actions to raise taxes and royalties and change ownership structures in the country’s oil industry show that energy supplies from Venezuela are in jeopardy.
U.S. Senator John McCain said that Americans should be wary of the “vulnerabilities that our economy and our very lives have when we’re dependent on Iranian Mullahs and wackos in Venezuela.”
“I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell.” Hugo Chavez
We own and operate a c-store. The fuel that we sell today will not buy the fuel we need tommorrow. In order to pay for the fuel that we need tommorrow we have to get that money from our inside sales (pop,beer candy ect). That takes money out of the portion that we use to pay the mortgage with. If you think it is easy we will SELL YOU A PLACE. Our bank wants us to shut down because we are not making the payments because of the above situation. We will probably lose everthing we have. We live in a crime free area. If you want to buy let us know. contact us through this page.
Dan, The reasons you see the price change three or four times a day can be many. Actually the most I personally have ever changed is twice and that has maybe happened three times in the four years I have been in business. And the reasons are you wait to see where your competition goes and then you adjust.
For instance, I hate to be the one to go up first when the price goes up especially if the increase has been big. So, if I’m lower than everyone else and I get an increase my first step would be to match my competion until THEY make the jump and then I will follow.
Another way it works at least in our market where we have Speedways, is they kind of set the prices cause they always jump up real high at first when there is an increaase. Then we go up, then they come in and change their price to be the lowest. By the way, Speedways are all corporate owned!
Again the overall average profit margin for gas is 10 cents per gallon. Sometimes its one penny, two pennies, break-even but then you get lucky and maybe its 15-20 cents which get you to the 10 cent average. But I must say this first quarter 2006 my average has probably been 3 cents. I hope for all of us that things get better.
I will not say that no one ever price gauges. I never have, and I don’t see it as much as I think people think it happens. I’ve seen it once in a while, but gauging is not the problem. It is our cost of gas from the oil companies and ALOT of taxes. I don’t have an invoice here at home with me but I will update you from an invoice the exact place that $.65 of taxes go to as soon as I get the chance.
Don’t forget to support your local independent gas stations. Not the corporate owned Mobil, BP, Shell and Speedways. They have already made their cuts on the sell of the gas to us they don’t need to be getting more. Give back to America!
I just think the American public needs to be informed. Do you realize the only two things sold with taxes included in the price are cigarettes and gas? Why are we not making it obviuos to the public how much of these prices are taxes? Why won’t the government push forward with drilling in Alaska and anywhere else the the US they can so we do not rely on other countries? Could it be because they get their share of taxes and are not hurting as much as WE are? Talk to your politicians. We need major changes. Gas prices go up so will everything else because of this.
SPEAK UP AMERICA!
AS #11 asks, PLEASE SOMEONE POST A LIST OF STATIONS THAT DO NOT USE EXXON/MOBILE!!
there is still no list of stations that DO NOT use exxon/mobil…How can we help if we don’t know!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS PLANNED BOYCOTT WOULD BE MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE IF IT WAS COORDINATED WITH THE ENVIRONMENTALIST’S BOYCOTT OF EXXON/MOBIL THAT IS SCHEDULED FOR JULY – DOES THIS MAKE SENSE?
The has stations in my area are B.P., Clark, and Sunoco. Which of these stations is the best to buy from. I will boycott Speedway, I didn’t know they were Corporate. There lies the problem, we just don’t know. And I am also writing my local congessman to cut the Damn gas tax.
Thanks for letting me voice my concern.
Diane
i work in a gas station. people think we get a discount??? people also complain abouth the price of gas. i say so what else isn’t up?
real estate taxes, food, gas bill electric bill; or i say take it up with the feds!!!
For Diane – I know BPs are corporate. I think most Clarks are independent, and not sure about Sunoco. Good luck!
Everyone keeps asking what stations are not Exxon/Mobil. Not sure exactly what you mean. If it is a Mobil with an auto care then it is definitely independent. I believe most Mobils with just gas, car wash or convenience are corporate, usually! Hope that helps somewhat.
you all just keep drinking the kool-aid of the leftist media and our demo-socialist buddies.
if free market capitalism was at work we would have price wars like back in our grandparents and parents day.
one guy on a corner would sell gas for 15 cents so other guy would sell for 12 cents other guy would go down to 10 cents until they couldnt go lower and eventually one starts back up and than the other.
that is not happening because there is not enough profit in gas sales to do that anymore.
you are busting on exxon/mobil like they did something wrong.
they happen to be the largest company in the world. is that wrong?
they did $360,000,000,000 (yes that is 360 billion dollars of gross sales) is that wrong?
they made $36,000,000,000 (yes that is 36 billion in profit) that is only 10% is that wrong?
do you realize that your bottle water has a minimum of 50% profit built into it. have you figured how much a gallon that is when add up all those little bottles we drink.
so one guy (the one with the nasty chin) is soley responsible for running a company with 360 billion in gross sales a year. he is the man the ceo of the whole thing. i dont even know how do the the math on what percentage of 360 billion 400 million is but it aint much.
so what exactly did exxon/mobil do wrong?
what have they done that other companies dont do?
they make less money per gallon on gas the pepsi does on a bottle of aquafini or coke does on a bottle of dasani. why dont you look at boycotting them for charging you $1.49 a quart or $5.96 per gallon for water.
do you realize that aquafini is bottled houston tap water run reverse osmosis yep that is it. find out how much you par per gallon of water at home that also includes sewer mark-up. i gurantee you pay by the 1000 gallons used. or if you have a well it is free.
how about price gouging in water????
this is a BIG GOVERNMENT issue!!
Fact: 21% of gas price goes to state and federal taxes.
Fact: ExxonMobil’s record profits are only 10% of their gross revenue.
Fact: During Hurricane Katrina ExxonMobil wholesale price to retailers hit a record high, but due to public outcry at the pumps their record high price was still less then their cost to produce the gas.
Fact: Coca-Cola charges more and makes more profit for a gallon of bottled
water or soda then the big oil companies do for a gallon of gas.
Although this makes for a great chain letter, it is not possible to boycott
any particular oil company. Refineries use oil from different sources and
everyone’s gas goes through the same shared pipelines.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/brochure/gas04/gasoline.htm
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/gasprices/FAQ.shtml
Boycotting the largest oil producer/refiner would make a difference in prices, but it cannot happen at indpendent stations. Boycotting can only reduce prices if demand for the entire product is reduced.
I live in Phoenix. Gas arives to Phoenix via a pipeline from Tucson. Tuscon recieves gas via a pipeline from the refineries in Los Angeles. This is a single pipe-line owned by a union of gas companies. Once the gas arrives in Phoenix, independent companies like Chevron, Shell, Exxon, and wholesaler buy their share. They add their ‘techron’ or whatever additive that they claim is better than the other company, but it’s the same gas everywhere.
These gas prices do not bother anyone. Why? Last quarter of all new car sales: 25% of vehicles were V-8′s, 35% were V-6′s, and 40% were four cylinders. At $3/gallon there is still a huge demand because of idiots with gross negligence of how supply/demand works.
Make a difference and only buy vehicles that get over 30/mpg.
Make a difference and carpool.
Less demand = more supply = lower prices.
Start being responsible for your actions and stop with the money saving schemes that put blame on the oil companies for prices.
Look back to 15 years ago and what prices were then- $.99/gallon. Take into account inflation at 3-5% increase every year. Today there is an additional 50 million Americans. Of course gas is going to go up!!
Writing your state representative will do nothing, because like stated before most of the price is taxes. How is your representative going to get pork money for his/her state if one of the biggest gerenators of taxes is reduced?
I wish the US would drill in Anwar and screw up the environment there. The sooner oil companies drain those fields, the sooner the area can start being restored. There have been predictions of only a 5 year supply of oil in Anwar for Americans and their appetite for gas. Do you really think gas will go down one cent once oil is being pumped from those fields?
Take responsibility for the situation you are creating. No one made you buy a house 50 miles from your job. No one made you to buy a 4-wheel drive when you live in a city. No one made you buy an SUV or big truck.
REDUCE DEMAND AND PRICES WILL FOLLOW.
Target all gas companies- not just Exxon.
I hate high gas prices. HOWEVER, if this perceived crises drives (pun intended) more people to ride bikes, take Mass Transit, WALK (God forbid), Ride share..etc., then BRING IT ON!!! Unless you live in the heart of NYC, wish I did, there is a good possibility that you are one of the many lazy suburbanites who drive forever to their respective jobs. Too bad.
Put your brain to work and figure out some of many ways to avoid driving so damn much. When the masses figure this out, the demand for oil will go down along with its price.
peace
I will choose to boycott all Exxon and Mobile gas stations. Even if it doesn’t work, I will still do it who knows!!! in the meantime I will also ride my bike as much as possible and plant flowers instead of cutting grass.
Okay, here’s my deal. Someone sent me this same ‘boycott Exxon-Mobil e-mail. I checked here at Urban Legends, and sure enough, it was listed. And then, the very next day, I read in the news how the CEO of Mobil-Exxon is retiring with a $400 MILLION package. Never mind his actual earnings – that’s JUST HIS RETIREMENT PACKAGE – 400 MILLION DOLLARS. So, I’m in. For the rest of the year, I will be buying from some other gas company — Shell, 76, small independent stations — don’t care, ANYTHING BUT MOBIL-EXXON. It may make no difference. Or it may. We’ll see what happens.
Well I am in the gas station business and I cannot tell you how many customers have come in and told us they refuse to buy gas at corporate Mobils. They are upset at the outrageous profits the oil company is making while others suffer along trying to fill up their cars. No one needs to make $400 billion. That is a SIN! Keep up the good work YOU are making a difference.
A boycott of Exxonmobil can help. However, ultimately we need to tax gas more and give everyone a citizen’s dividend rebate. This will encourage 300 million people to seek and create alternatives.
smarttaxalliance.org
Exxon Mobil CEO’s yearly pension is reporeted to be less than Viagra pushing Pfizer CEO’s pension.
See http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5329195
My personal opinion is just buy the cheap stuff until there is a surplus of the premium gas. It’s not going to hurt your car engine to fill up with octane 87. I haven’t use premium gas for years and my cars run fine! If everyone stops buying premium and mid range gas then the prices for premium will have to go down due to less demand for it.
From the EIA:
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) cannot definitively say where gasoline at a given station originated since EIA does not collect data on the source of the gasoline sold at retail outlets. The name on the service station sign does not tell the whole story. The fact that you purchase gasoline from a given company does not necessarily mean that the gasoline was actually produced by that particular company’s refineries. While gasoline is sold at about 167,000 retail outlets across the nation, about one-third of these stations are “unbranded” dealers that may sell gasoline of any brand. The remainder of the outlets are “branded” stations, but may not necessarily be selling gasoline produced at that company’s refineries. This is because gasoline from different refineries is often combined for shipment by pipeline, and companies owning service stations in the same area may be purchasing gasoline at the same bulk terminal. In that case, the only difference between the gasoline at station X versus the gasoline at station Y may be the small amount of additives that those companies add to the gasoline before it gets to the pump. Even if we knew at which company’s refinery the gasoline was produced, the source of the crude oil used at that refinery may vary on a day-to-day basis. Most refiners use a mix of crude oils from various domestic and foreign sources. The mix of crude oils can change based on the relative cost and availability of crude oil from different sources.
… So in other words, there is no real way of posting a list of what gas stations support what countries. However, I do strongly support that people contact their senators & state representatives & “complain” to them. They might not really care about us (lets face it, it’s all about the money) but at some point, they WILL get tired of hearing from you & will eventually do something. I have contact my congressmen several times & they now know me on a first name basis
But they know where I stand & THAT ladies & gentlemen… is what we want.
God Bless!
The laws of economics will not allow this ridiculous scheme to work. Read the following link, and then reduce your demand for oil anyway possible:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp
Do you think Chevron, Shell, Conoco CEO’s aren’t getting huge sums of money. All of these businesses made billions in profits last year.
Way to the right, you are waaaay outta ya mind if you think Chavez is the problem. I think it’s great that he’s taken over from the greed mongering pigs that have been running our country and the world, and at least giving some of it back to his people. Do you have any understanding of the ploys the USA has already launched against him to remove him from power? It wasn’t talking out his ass when he said we already tried to assassinate him. It’s the same crap we pulled back in the 70s and 80s with Nixon, Bush and Nazi Reagan at the helm, only this time with all our troops deployed in Iraq it is that much harder to parachute a division or two like we did in Panama, or foment an assassination like we did to Salvador Allende with that scumbag Kissinger in the 70s. If you catch the news today Bolivia is now following suit and Nationalizing their natural gas as well. Good for them. There is a process of disinformation against Chavez in this country, and I don’t believe McCain knows what he’s talking about either. He’s another one who used that lame excuse for getting us into the Iraq war as “Oh the president said that the CIA said that Saddam has WMDs so we have to go to war.” and now he is saying; “Oh, the CIA or president lied to us.” Like he didn’t know they were lying at the time and didn’t have the balls to stand up them. Anyway, Chavez is the only one I know who literally offered discounted gas to New York City and other New England states this winter. did Exxon or Mobil or Shell or anyone else? NO! Don’t you think that it’s a bit odd that a few months ago the only oil exporter that was beinging investigated by us for price gouging is the only one that Nationalized his oil and publically spoke out against us? I shop exclusively for Venezualan gas. True Chavez maybe a self aggrandizing opportunist, but I do believe more of his oil profits are now going to the poor of his country than before. Americans are brainwashed from birth to believe that unrestrained capitalism and private ownership is always superior to socialism. Personally I think all it fosters is unrivaled greed, avarice and nasty coups and murders that the US has foisted upon the 3rd world for decades now.
This is an old thread that the Google AI delivered unto me when I was questing for info. Working for a corporate discount retailer, I never would have considered such margins for petrol sales. Truly fascinating and informative, contributors.
Has anyone developed a set of guidelines to actaully:
1) provide a list of company store & independetn Exxon stores
2) create a user group for this
so we can see who, what & where are doing
3) so we can see the responses/economic result of this endeavor
Kent
Comment 23:
Not sure who you work for but water prices do not affect people as muich as gasoline.
I don’t drink 17 gallons of water a week. I drink 3 gallons of water a week and pau 60 dollars for water a month thats with watering flowers and what not.
Cars don’t run on water because if they did no one would be crying.
Supply and Demand are two fictitious tricks used by people like you who work for the big gas companies to reason the increasn in prices.
You can’t tell me that you can measure demand 4 times a day and adjust the prices accordingly!
Demand stays the same for many weeks ina row if not years! I drive the same way to work in the same car as I have for the past 5 years. I take the twice a month 500 miles trip out of town as I have in the past 5 years. Nothing much has changed in my life and Im pretty sure it hasn’t changed for most other people. The demand you business pricks talk about is fictitious in todays gasoline price problem.
Also… When a gas station recieves gasoline… you can be sure that that gasoline was not produced from oil purchased 2 days ago… It was made from oil purchased months ago and they still sell it using it todays price.
And for the gas station owners who complain… shut down the s*** if you’re not making money and its so bad… I tell you what though! you are crying because you just can’t get rich at the same rate now! You are thriving because if you weren’t you’d have shut down the store 4 years ago! Don’t cry you little liars! You don’t impress me!
You are just crying because you can’t make 30 % proffit or more. And I say ! GOOD! you shouldn’t!
Boycott Everyone! Pick a gas station supplied my a major company and stop buying gas from them.
Even if you boycott so that eexon will “feel the pinch” they won’t feel a thing. People have to get their gas from somewhere and if eexon is not selling it at an eexon station they are selling it at the mom and pop stations. The onyl way to truly make a gas war work is to stop buying so much gas.
Where I live Speedway dominates the pricing of all gasoline. Speedway is the first to increase the price than every follows suite. Sunoco is the last to follow. In a few days then it goes down again. Watch the diesal prices! It is interesting to see how much the price flucuates with unleaded adn prices will vary. At Sterlings you can get Diesal for 2.79 a gallon then there is Speedway in sylvania ohio who has it for 2.95 a gallon and then near the highway BP has it for 2.84. Speedway dominates the setting of prices in this area. Another pointer is watch the commodities section in the stock market area of your paper. It has the cost per barrel of crude. if you read in the news paper you have many reasons as to why gas will go up. Because our refineries are working at max which explains the price increases you know if something were to happen bla bla bla.
Or we are working at half capacity.
There was an ariticle in the news paper a while ago where it stated that Shell Gas Coporation shut down several of its fields to minimize the amount of oil output. This article went on to say that it sold one of their more productive oil field to a business owner when there was so much life left in it and they say that the oil companies are not profiting off the us.
In our area around January we were seeing gas prices as low as 1.99 per gallon to 1.97. Then some idiot wrote in our paper that the average price was yadda yadda of course prices went up. On Public radio about a month in a half ago it stated that mutual funds were not interested in investing in oil an were putting their funds elswhere and that people were not interested in investing in oil and the prices went down considerabley. Then in the paper OPEC states that they will lower their production of oil to up the prices and that oil should only be in the fifties per barrell. Now oil has gone up but it is coming down a smidge. a dollar something here 2 cent there. Now as citizens we need to ban together and go to our elected officals we are the majority and we can make a difference but we need to flex our democratic rights! When Clinton was in office oil companies tried to jack up the price and Clilnton opened up our reserves to flood the market and lower the price.
they say they are not makiong profits but Exxon and Bp and the others have billions and billions of profits. In ohio our new Gov. Strickland is about to let the moratorium end on taxing gas distributors receipts which means more taxes on us and additional money at the pump. In michigan they lack funds for their roads they want to increase the gas tax to 10 cent over three years. I might be wrong on the amount but it is the idea of it. Now, as a federal government we have a deficit why don’t they take away all the perks at capitol hill? I would imagine that it would lower our deficit considerably. In closing I did call Speedway corporation a while ago and asked why the prices where going up and the dude did not have the courage to speak to me but gave the info to the representative. “supply and demand” I told her with all do respect bull— she agreed. The activity at this particular gas station is the same. Our independent gas stations should keep their prices at a reasonable price and everyone would come to them. I am not a business person but it sounds reasonable to me! Have a great day!
Yes, it does matter. As people begin to impact the price chain, oil companies will feel pressure, as the margins narrow at the pump, there will be pressure. In the short run it may actually drive gas prices up, as demand for the places from which the buy wil increase. However, in the long run it will definitely drive prices down.
I already sent this e-mail all around and will do my part, and not purchase gas from Exxon or Mobil
This was originally sent out last year and I only just got a copy today? Well isn’t that a let-down! I guess it didn’t work. And here I was all excited about the idea.
Oh well.
This boycott is going great….i see alot of ppl supporting it—-
i fw the email to 300 ppl!
how many did you?
For all those who continue to compare the cost of a gallon of milk or soda to a gallon of gas…so when was the last time you purchased 20 gallons of milk or soda and consumed same in the period of a few days? It’s the old apples/oranges argument again!
All,
I don’t know about you but this chain has been going on for a long time and I’m not about to let this go away so easily. All the oil company representatives entering this chain dropping their “Give UP” ideas and downing the movement should really try looking for new jobs!!! If you have stock in Exon or Mobile you best sell, sell, and sell; because this will work and when it does…
For a long time I’ve tried to stop buying gas on Wednesday but over time I seen little difference but little is better then none… but as for this movement, it has a great chance of succeeding. I think I’ll even put a video on “you tube” of me reading the e-mail that is triggering this movement;^))
Listen, bottom line is when there was obvious and straight out racism about blacks riding on the back of the bus… Blacks united to stop the segregation on buses. This took a lot of Black Power; but now that we all have united and see the tyranny of these large Corporations; we can bond and have more of an impact but we must start with 1 person and that’s you and in my case me. Spread the word that this movement will not die.
Something has got to be done about this drastic problem with These Oil Companies. The whole country is affected by this unnatural disaster. We are paying more tax than ever before. All of our products that we buy depend on Gas. If we Just REWIND and use our feet and hands to do the majority of the work then we would not have to pay such high prices on everything we buy Including The GAS.. Here is my solution. If you can walk, ride a bike, or take the bus to work and your other activities , then do it. Stop complaining about the problem if your not solving it by taking action to stop it.
Let put an end to this crazy gas price. Start the gas war now! But we have to act together and must be organized. Visit http://www.end2crazygasprice.com now. Together we can control the gas price!
The Case Against ExxonMobil/Esso
Gas prices going up is a GOOD thing. We Americans do not act until it is too painful not to. We have technology to get off gas (or largely so – look at E85 if nothing else) and yet we do not, because it is effort – and we like it easy. If government taxes us on gas and then turns the $$ over to Research for alternatives, it is the best thing for us. We all know we should be off gas (USA consumes 25% of WORLD’s GAS). We could dominate the world market for cars that use alternative fuels, but we are going to miss that boat too (Toyota just passed GM in quarterly sales). Send a signal to gas countries by looking for alternatives to gas (electric, E85..whatever).
http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4215489.html?series=19
Lets hope UPS stops buying gas for a couple of days, they would lower the gas prices.
FYI Gasoline is a by-product of processing diesel fuel so therefore it doesn’t cost anything to make gasoline just diesel and of course from what I’ve seen diesel is cheaper. Nothing like sticking it to the little guy.
I’ve seen gas prices soar 60 cents in 2 hours time so there is no way the gas stations aren’t making a profit there too.
I say get rid of the good ole boys network in washington and here’s a thought why not raise the cost of the food we are sending to the opec nations, that at least would help the farmers in America!
OK? after reading a few remarks..
Boulder CO people bike to work and use less gas.. Prices are higher than Denver CO.. Why?
Price fixing!! Years ago I worked for a gas station.. They drive around and look at other prices and set prices on what the guy next to him does. The big guys that is. Laws for price fixing do not apply becuase they do not “talk” to the other stations.
Jacking prices up knowing the next guy will the same is PRICE FIXING!!!!
This is an idiotic suggestion and will NEVER work. First of all, this suggestion has been circulating in emails since 1999. Different versions just keep arising. Obviously if it worked it would have worked long ago.
Secondly pricing of products is not affected by individual demand at single companies but by overall demand (and supply) of the product. Unless overall demand decreases or supply increases prices will not change. Another way to look at this is in an example. Let’s say both Exxon and Chevron+plus the other oil companies each have 1,000,000 gallons of gas and 1,000,000 of demand. If people stop buying from Exxon so that their demand drops to 500,000 (vs. 1,000,000 of supply) they might consider a price drop. However, Chevron and the other companies will now have demand of 1,500,000 gallons vs. their supply of only 1,000,000. Because of this difference, Chevron and the others will do one of two things 1) either raise the price of their gas until demand equates with supply or 2) buy the extra 500,000 gallons they need in the aftermarket, most likely from Exxon. If #1 happens, people’s objectives will have been thwarted in that they would actually have to pay a higher price at Chevron than they were paying before (which they probably wouldn’t do and would return to Exxon). If #2 happens, people may have stopped buying from Exxon directly but Exxon would still have the same sales, now as a wholesaler instead of a retailer, with no incentive to cut prices. If you want to do something about prices, you need to affect demand (drive less, alternative fuels, etc.) or affect supply (allow drilling in Alaska, use less oil in other industries by allowing more nuclear, wind, etc.) I’m all for lower gas prices, but be logical about how it can or cannot be achieved.
It’s really like swatting at a swarm of bees. Had you a couple of dozen hands, you would make a difference. Sadly, since it is impossible to get a majority of the public to do ANYTHING (including turn out for voting), it will go on just the way it has. Move on to something else.
You can go to exxon mobile site and click on station locator within up to 300 from your starting address and all the exxon mobile stations will be listed even those without exxon or mobile in the name. Hope this helps.
I am just curious why the government hasn’t put a limit on the price of gas because the way this is going we are heading for another depression.
The gas game works like this: The oil companies have a limited overall supply of oil. There is only so much oil in the earth. If the oil companies pump out lots of oil, they deplete their supply and at the same time drive oil prices down becuase there is a greater supply on the market.
Let’s see; that sounds like a no brainer: As an oil company, I can use less manpower and deplete my overall supplies at a lower rate… all while making more money! Sign me Up!
Many people keep saying “USE LESS GAS! WALK TO WORK! CARPOOL! YADA YADA YADA!” but that won’t work either. As soon as demand goes down (from all of us using less gas), the oil companies will simply lower their production (ie supply). Doing this will once again increase demand and subsequently gas prices will still be at $4 a gallon whether you walk to work or not.
You can’t win this one! The only way to alter gas impact on your life is to not rely on gas! Technology needs to create an alternative to gas. That’s it. It’s the only answer–short of the government actually stepping up to help us out… but let’s see, G.W. has lots of oil stock. Think he cares about your oil price resentment?! He does not. (Hey, most of you voted for him again anyway!)
If I were you, I’d invest all my money in oil and ride the gravy train home baby!
Nobody MAKES you buy Pepsi, water, Taco Bell or GAS for that matter either!
YOU decided to buy a car that runs on GAS! You’re just mad because you’re a gas crack-addict! And until you decide to go thru gas rehab and quit your habit, you’re always going to be helpless. Look at cigarette smokers people pay through the nose for pack of smokes. They can complain about increasing prices and keep smoking (like a bunch of idiots) or they can QUIT smoking and move on… And in the process, saving lots of money too!
Think about people… this is a boat you put yourselves in. Get over it!
All the negative responses are from People who have big money invested in Big Oil or BIG OIL themselves.
BOYCOTT EXXON/MOBIL STATIONS & PRODUCTS
We need to know what stations are buying from Exxon Mobil
I wrote a really nice write up and it didn’t take because I didn’t add my email (warning for any future bloggers).
In a nutshell, goverenment needs to regulate it. A 400 Million dollar parachute is larger than anyone could ever spend in 3 lifetimes. We as Americans will always pay for it whatever the price. Ask around and see if your politicians pay for their own gas (most don’t even buy their cars).
I have knowledge that the auto industry can create an 8 cylinder carburetor that gets over 50 MPG. Wonder who stopped that production? I have also heard a rumor that a guy made an engine that could run on water, makes sense, hydrogen is a fuel. Have to check snopes and see if there is any truth to that one.
I say boycott politicians, stop big government and you will get to the root of the gas problem. Think about it before you jump to conclusions. They work for us, drive to work on our money to work for us…simply amazing.
Typical Americans — looking to blame someone else besides yourself for the problem. AND I’M AN AMERICAN!
If you want gas prices to go down, use LESS GASOLINE. It’s simple supply and demand, taught in every Economics course.
We don’t have a ‘right’ to cheap gas.
Quit blaming the supplier and blame the person draining the supply — YOU!!!
I live in a refinery town. We have TOO much here. How do I know. Because they can’t get enought trucks to haul it out of here. Trucks come from three different states to get our fuel than go back to their state and sell it cheaper. So much for supply and demand. This might bite me in the ass later but I mix 100% unleaded with E85. I use 6 gal of unleaded with 4 gal of E85. My car has been running ok and it reduces my cost. we are at $3.29 and E85 is at $2.59. REMEMBER NO ONE BUY ANY FUEL TOMARROW.
http://map.exxonstations.com/locator.asp?c=5142007123804PM&lang=EN
http://www.localshell.com/
http://www.arco.com/toolserver/arcotool/fuelStationSearch.do?categoryId=16002891&contentId=7024774
To find out gas prices nationwide go here
http://gasprices.mapquest.com/index.jsp
It is usually 1 day behind but gives you an idea. 5-14-07 says gas is $2.26 to $4.43 depending on where you live. And it does not have anything to do with supply and demand. Oil prices are going up because speculators in the market are driving prices up for their profit later when they force the price down a little. Bill O Rily did several programs on this. He was pissed because he could find no one who sets the price at any company
Gas Boycott
5/15/07
And every
Tuesday
UNTIL GAS IS BELOW $2
DO THIS OR STOP BITCHING
This blog does not print everything. I guess maybe its an oil thing
I promise I will not buy any fuel TOMARROW. I might buy some TOMORROW, but I doubt it. I still have half a tank. It could be next week before I need gas. That will really mess with the supply and demand of the world’s fuel industry.
Better yet when you do buy gas send a message. Put the first 5 cents on a credit card. Than turn off the pump. Then finish getting your fuel. Do this at pay at the pump stations. I did this today 4 times at different stations. One place said they would not run the card because they would loose money on the transaction. Everyone can do that. Send a message charge the first 5 cents on a credit card…
Supply and demand… What a load of crap. Are they gonna tell us that so many more people are driving this year that gas has to go up nearly a dollar in the last 4 months? Bullsh*t!
After Katrina a barrel of oil was over $70…today, according to Bloomberg, it is sitting at $63; but yet gas is even more expensive than it was after Katrina. Their excuse this year is that they are having refiney problems…when the fact is that they simply reduced the output to force the prices up.
What we need is more refineries… We need more competition in the market. We need to somehow stop the biggest of oil companines from dominating the market and stifling the competition…
The problem comes down to one word: GREED!
I support any boycott against Exxon/Mobil – If we can hurt the biggest, then the next biggest will take serious notice once we tell them they are next!
I know it is not the gas stations that are screwing us but still this feels good. I bought gas 4 times on the 14th. I only bought 5 cents each time. Not much gas but it will cost them more to do the transaction than it is worth. One place told me that they would not send it in. If you do this at the pay at the pump it will go in. I am happy to say I spent 2 hours yesterday putting out flyers telling people not to buy on the 15th and every tuesday from here on out until gas goes below $2.00…I have checked the biggest stations and traffic is very light. WE CAN DO THIS
OK I HAVE DONE MY PART, AND DID NOT BUY GAS TODAY. I ALSO TOLD EVERYONE THAT WOULD LISTEN NOT TO BUY GAS TODAY. NOW MY QUESTION IS, WHAT STATIONS DO NOT SELL EXXON AND MOBIL? I WILL ALSO BOYCOTT THEM TOO.
Boycott the oil company. This is a “Super Rip Off”!!!!!! Wake up, ppl!!
instead of a “no buy” day, maybe we should have a “no drive” day. Or no-drive weekend, or car-pool only.
It does not matter if you accidently buy from a small company exxon or mobil wholesale to.
Exxon/Mobil usually participate in the building/signage of a retail location and then get paid back with a couple of pennies per gallon over a period of years. They will feel that. If their direct distributors start to really feel the pinch headquarters will know about it.
When will we learn that the only way to reduce the price of gas is to reduce the demand? It is as simple as that. But we as a society don’t want to sacrifice the convenience of jumping into our cars whenever we need to and running here and there um-teen times a day to pick up milk, a prescription, something at the craft store, etc. Conservation and lowering the demand significantly is our only hope. Are you willing to do that?
I thought of that also…the part where the no name gas stations get their gas from Exxon or Mobil, BUT if we target the stations with their names on them, (Exxon / Mobil) we take away much of their big money and their station owners will in turn pressure Exxon and Mobil to respond with prices they can sell. I live in Needles, CA. and we have been seeing gas prices WAY OVER $4.00 for months. The smart locals drive about 1 mile to AZ. where it is $0.75 cheaper. It’s the travelers on I-40 passing through that keep them alive. If you ever come through Needles, CA. do yourself a favor and ask how to get accross the river to the cheap gas. 1 maybe 1 1/2 miles out of your way to save 75 cents a gallon…its worth it…but be sure to go to the SECOND station the first one is a Mobil.
I FORGOT SOMETHING SOME PEOPLE HAVE TO DRIVE. We do need to conserve and cut back but for everyone who seems to think it is easier to come up with reasons things WON’T work…Do nothing at all and watch the prices go up. Trying to fight back can only work if EVERYONE gets involved. Don’t look for excuses not to get involved…try something.
Excuse my stupidity but does anyone know for sure why the prices are so high? I’ve been told that it is because of the war but that doesn’t really explain anything.
The high gas prices are a direct result of greedy oil companies!
They raise the prices with an upcoming holiday and will not lower them. When was the last time they had to fill their own tanks???
Since we live in a socialistic society, government controlled, there is nothing we can do about taxes. Now we can boycott Exxon, mobile and citgo and anything with their name on it. We don’t know who the little independent stations are who get their gas from these major oil companies. What we can do is decide who we want to sell gas in each and every city. We start by boycotting one particular station in our city, right or wrong, until we run them out of business. Then we start on another station. Run them out of business until they start wondering who will be next in this city. It will take everyone sticking togather and we will take down a lot of small independently owned station but eventually we can call the shots. It’s not doing any good talking about it, something has to be done now. Right or wrong. So lets start with Speedway. Boycott every speedway until there are no more. Then we will start with another one. I’m in Ohio so everyone in Ohio start with Speedway. Everyone do their part, forward e-mails and spreed the news.Do your part and close the Speedways down first. Then you will be further updated. We Can DO This.
Great idea boycott each independent until you run them out of business! Then you will only have the large corporations who will control the price. I have a station and had to raise the gas price five cents a gallon because some idiot was buying five cents of gas on his credit card. He’s nuts if he thinks I’m going to pay for his stupid game. Quit driving for a weekend and see the price come down! Oh, do you not want to conserve? Then stop complaining. Have you thought about government? It’s the same as with drugs. Our government is bought off by the commpanies. Until the fat cat politians are held to a higher standard we will continue to be ripped off.
I find it interesting that every comment that suggests this issue might be OUR OWN fault it is completely ignored. BTW people, the amount of tax charged per gallon of gas is clearly posted on EVERY gas pump – do you not ever read what is right in front of you???
We are a wasteful society; I cringe every time I see a hummer or a mini van with ONE person in it driving down the road – why not just set fire to an oil field and call it a day?
We, as a nation, care about little unless it has it’s own telethon with wide-eyed or impoverished children OR BETTER STILL – until it hits us where it hurts – our $$$$$$$$.
I just find it very sad that the most educated country in the world keeps trying to blame others for our own greed and wasteful ways. If our demand were still what it was in 1980 – it’s likely that prices would not be nearly as high as they are today.
If the gas prices will finally bring about a reality check; I’m all for it. Nothing lasts forever people…stop acting like it does – combine errands, car pool to work, recycle…and yes – I already do these things, what makes you too good to cut back a little???
I purchase my gas from Speedway which most of the time is cheaper in my area just outside of Chicago. But does anyone know where these other company’s like Speedway get there gas supply from. Are we still contributing to Exxon,or Mobil?
The true problem with the gasoline supply and demand debacle is simply an illegally/unethically controlled supply by corportaiton (condoned by a spineless or corrupt government – take your pick on either – the end result is the same) Coupled with a relentless demand by a glutteness body of consumers – the fat, lazy or apathetic U.S.A. citizen ( again, take your pick the end result is the same).
The formula in a capitalist system is simple – supply and demand
However, when the supply is manipulated by unethical or corrupt means intervention is required. This intervention can only be done by government. Government will only bow to political demand.
To change:
Organize letter writting campaignes and demonstrations to catch attention of Reprentatives – hold these Representatives accountable – (yes, this means you will have to pay attention to their voting records and campaign contributors). Organize. Demonstrate. Propagate. Be relentless until you acheive change.
Second:
Change consumption habits to release hold by suppliers. Conserve. Walk. Combine trips. Maintain your vehicle. Use only efficient vehicles. Whatever. Demand must slacken and drop.
Until demand is changed – supply will stay the same.
Nothing great or worth while in history was ever accomplished because someone or some group was feeling good or warm and fuzzy. Most lasting change has come from the pain and outrage of a person or group finally taking a stance against aggressors/oppressors. This road is painful and requires sacrifice.
It’s your bed. Make it.
Interesting, these comments started over a year ago, does anyone know if it worked? Anyone got stats?
It seems to me that if people just did a little bit of investigating, they should be able to find out quite easily whether their no-name gas station is supplied with exxon oil or not. But thats just my opinion.
The high prices are hurting small “service” businesses who have to drive to service their customers. Those types of businesses have a hard time surviving – and it is not greed, we all have to make a living or we become homeless wards of guess who? Taxpayers (who have to work to pay for the government assistance to the needy). People across the country uniting is the only power we have outside of an all-out revolution, but like that’s going to happen…
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everybody needs to email Bill Oreilly on this subject and get him on this
Bill O’reilley? Are you kidding? That blowhard?
This thread would be comical if it weren’t so sad. It’s usually the rubes at my work who buy/drive the big SUV’s, which they can’t afford. Then they get a chain email and they forward it to all the other rubes and they think they are actually doing something.
They would never dream of carpooling or taking their bike. They run their A/C at sixty degrees, even when they’re at work, then they complain about their high electric bill. The fact that some actual sane people tell them that this is another urban legend that has been going on for years, doesn’t thwart them in the least.They still keep pumping those emails out. Americans really are getting dumber.
How about not being so greedy? Buy a hybrid. Get a moped. Walk, Carpool, take mass transit. Is conservation to liberal? Well, as long as you have your “support Bush and the Troops” ribbons, you should be safe.
OK, this was explained earlier in the thread, but I’ll explain it again. All the gas stations buy their gas from a large refinery plant. That plant buys gas from whomever is selling gas that hour. The refinery could be processing gas from EXXON, mobile and joe-shmoe-oil all at the same time. This gas either goes into a pipeline, where it gets mixed with other refineries output or it gets put on a truck and that truck goes to a gas station that bought gas from that refinery. Gas stations can buy gas from any refinery they want, whichever is cheapest that day. There is NO WAY to know where the gas at a gas station came from.
Grow a garden, eat organic, ride a bike, carpool. Whatever, it doesn’t matter how high the gas price goes, if you aren’t buying ANY gas, they won’t get ANY of your money.
That cheeseburger from McDonalds you’re munching on right now, took several gallons of gas to get the bread, the meat and the condiments to you from the far corners of the continent. Buy local food, food that doesn’t have to travel all over the country using gas.
Pesticides and herbicides are made from oil, quit buying produce grown with them. Buy organic or grow your own.
Biking is good for you, buy a nice bike and run all your errands that way, or ride a bus if you live in a large town. Some towns you can have it both ways, strap your bike to the front of the bus, let the bus get you downtown or where ever and then ride your bike the rest of the way.
Quite worrying about which station sells which gas, you’re missing the point and it will never work.
Hey kelly quite blaming the person with th suv. i live in a refinery town. we have more oil here than we can ship out. the price here is very high. non of the gas stations get there oil from here. i see tankers from three state come here and bring there gas back to their state and sell it 30-40 cents cheaper than we buy it. They are squeezing out the independent gas station. they are counting on Americans to be blaming each other and not them:big oil. the little refinery here 9months ago when I was around them had profits of 1 million buck per DAY. There is no compition. Go ahead and ride your bike if it makes you feel better. Quite envying your next door neighbor. His SUV has no impact on the price of gas.
ugh…this thread is painful to read.
I am an engineer. I have worked for Petro-Canada and Shell. My father is a natural gas broker.
Jennie 2 posts up is correct. A no-name gas station will buy it from a local refinery. The local refinery gets it from Shell, Petro-Canada, and about 200 other small oil/gas producers. I’m just curious what everyone thinks we are going to do when the earth runs out of petroluem. I mea when a major frost blows through california the price of grapes at the grocery store doubles. We are no having to drill deeper and deeper into the earht to find any reserves. (like 5 km into the earth) the cost to recover this petroleum is not cheap. I’m not saying oil and gas isn’t making a profit, but it’s our insatiable need for fuel that is driving it. we can only blame society for building our cities in such a way that we have to drive our cars everywhere…to work…to get food. It’s pretty depressing when you think about how bad things will eventually get as we further deplete oil/gas reserves.
This is the store locator from Exxon which should help you in order to avoid buying from them http://map.exxonstations.com/locator.asp
JM 5/30/07
My question is, there is so many service stations that are selling gas from Exxon Mobil, how can I find out what gas stations in my area are supplied by their gas?
ramthis97@aol.com
The whole gas thing NEW Idea
Ok I think we all have seen that Boycott S*** on the internet and any reasonable person will agree after some thinking that we still need the gas and we will just buy it another day because we all need it the only way to actually have an impact on the problem is to stop the gas companies ABILITY TO SELL GAS. And I’m sure if we all think hard enough about our history we can remember a time when business would not sell to African Americans. What REALLY WORKED was the sit in. So I propose a Park-in pick a day lets say 7/7/2007 give it enough time for this to get around a little and it is a Saturday so people alot of people will be off and can use their off time for a good purpose. So on 7/7/2007 at 12 noon take your vehicle to a gas pump and park it. Don’t move it. For as long as you can. Tell your friends. doesn’t matter what gas station the more the better. Hell, even if you get arrested they still have to tow your vehicle so you get some more time blocking thier pump.
Send this to everyone you know hell even those you don’t.
let’s see if this will work.
If we could get even 30% of the people that was going to travel for the 4th of july not to go that weekend that would have an impact. I set up a special email address and put stickers all over town to stop buying from big oil stations. I had my email address on their for ideas. After 1 month I only got 3 email. We are now a nation that puts up with just about anything. I guess thats why most people stay home on election day. If this trend continues WE WILL BE SCREWED AS A COUNTRY
Just finished a litany of phone conversations with various corporate execs (safeway, costco, sams, etc) to determine who supplies their gasoline.
Each of them answered my question about their refined gas suppliers the same way:
1.) They purchase gas from a refinery, not an oil company like Exxon/Mobile.
2.) Once the refined gasoline hits the pipeline (over 24 pipelines supply our state here in Colorado) it becomes “faceless.” In other words, it could be coming from any source.
After calling Frontier Refinery in Cheyenne, Wyoming (suppliers to Denver Area Safeway gas stations) the info I receieved was that they have multiple suppliers, Exxon/Mobile among them.
(Not all refineries receive Exxon/Mobile crude oil. Trying to get that list may be worth a go.)
So, would it then be more effective to do this:
a.) Individuals from around the country call local gas stations and find out who their refinary is.
b.) Call the refinary to determine who their suppliers are.
c.) If they purchase crude oil from Exxon/Mobile (even though they also receive crude oil from other companies) boycott the gas stations who are supplied by that refinary.
In other words: Boycott the stations whose REFINERIES are supplied by Exxon/Mobil.
btw: I got the information from Frontier in a conversation that took less than 10 minutes.
We could then create a web-page – - or use a current one where individuals from around the country can list those stations in their area that should be boycotted…..
….just a random thought.
Good comments Centennial, kj and Jeannie . . . but have to whole heartedly agree with kj and Jeannie.
One thing we are going to try in our community is to ask neighbors to get 5 gallons less gas each visit during the month of July and donate what they would have spent in that 5 gallons to a favorite charity.
In that way, we send a message to oil companies without boycotts, we learn to get by with a decrease in consumption and help others at the same time.
The preliminary response has been enormous and very positive!
COULD YOU USE HELP?
The way to get the gas prices down is to pick one of the big boys and boycott that one for two weeks or more. It does not matter where they purchase their fuel becuase their retailers (gas station) owners will force them to lower their price. The industry as a whole is just to powerful but take them one at a time where it hurts (retailer) and they will have to react. We all need fuel but if we do not purchase from Exxon, BP or whoever but make sure not from the single source their retailers will feel the pinch and make it happen.
I don’t think there’s a chance that gas prices are decreasing any time soon… boycott or not. Especially with the “oil sharing bill” before the Iraqi Parliment as well as a new US embassy the size of the Vatican City being built Iraq.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12319798/
The only viable solution is to decrease consumption and stop with the dumbing down of America. The latter being the most destructive to the United States.
The American people, as a whole… present company hopefully excluded… would rather watch Nascar or American Idol than take the time to learn what’s really going on. Oil and gas prices is just a tiny piece of it all. The dumbing down of the woman and man on the streets of the US is nearly complete.
But in the interest of that tiny piece, since it is IMPOSSIBLE to trace refined gasoline from station back to refinery back to Crude Oil Company…the best thing for all of us to do is purchase less. Just 5 gallons less…or 5 dollars less (which is what now, 1.5 gallons?)
The bottom line here, is that it’s our dependency on foreign oil causing the prices, even though we are doing a good job supplementing by drilling in the gulf and Alaska. Our gas is still among the cheapest in the world. The real solution is alternative fuel sources, i.e. electric/solar powered vehicles, natural gas is another good alternative —> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_vehicle
It’s not small gas stations, or even big oil companies. We need to find a different solution.
The Six Supermajors and their Retail Stations
Exxon Mobile retail stations include:
Exxon
Mobile
Esso
On the Run
Shell retail stations include:
Shell
BP retail stations include:
BP
Amoco
AM/PM
Arco
Total retails stations include:
Total
Elf
Elan
Chevron retail stations include:
Chevron
Texaco
Caltex
Conoco (Sonoco) Phillips retail stations include:
Conoco (Sonoco)
Phillips 66
Jet
76
The following do not fall under the Supermajors’ umbrella:
Marathon, including Speedway retail stations
Clark
Citgo
An easy way to find all of the exxon mobil gas stations around where you live is found here:
http://map.exxonstations.com/locator.asp
Personally, there are a lot of UDF’s around here supplied by them. Keep in mind, car pool whenever possible to further screw the greedy pigs.
Remember, major oil companies hold much of the capital in corporate America. They have major investments in all industries, and they are making a profit on almost anything that we buy. By boycotting independently owned branded gas stations (i.e. Mobil, Shell, Chevron, etc.,) we hurt the small business owners a lot more than we hurt the big guys.
I have found a very simple solution to this dilemma. I still shop at my neighborhood gas station. I have reduced my spending on gasoline, but increased spending on the groceries. This is a simple shift of my grocery shopping from the corporate super market to the mini mart. It works!
Rob
WHAT KIND OF COMMUNIST NIT WIT WOULD TRY A STUNT LIKE THIS. PERHAPS HE WOULD LIKE IT IF THE SAME WAS DONE TO A COMPANY THAT EFFECTED HIS FAMILIES ECCONOMICS. IN FACT IT IS THE SAME FOLLOWERS OF SICK IDEAS THAT WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NINE ELEVEN WORLD TRADE CENTER MASS MESS! SO WITH THAT BEING SAID I FEEL THIS ENTIRE SITE SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED BY FEDERAL AUTHORITIES. SO I WILL CALL IN FIRE ON MYSELF TO DO JUST THAT! I MAY VERY WELL KNOW INFORMATION THAT WOULD INVOLVE ME IN THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. FURTHER MORE WHICH ONE OF YOU DEMOLISHED THE CENTERS WITH LADEN EXPLOSIVES? NOW YOU MUST REPORT THIS TO THE FBI…UP YOURS
No one has mentioned the Hubbert peak, an bell-shaped supply/demand curve for oil developed in 1956. How, then is then a theory from 1956 relevant to today’s oil market? It isn’t. It grossly underestimates the amount of wordlwide oil production, coveniently to the advantage of the big oil companies. Go here if you’re intrested in the truth.
But still, boycott Exxon. The Valdeez disaster was reason enough, but now they’re offering money to scientists that are willing to manipulate the data and create a bogus study that debunks global warming. They’re evil bastards and won’t ever get my money!
Don’t buy your gas from any station that displays an Exxon,Chevron, Mobil or Citgo sign. Exxon owns Chevron, so if you buy Chevron you are helping Exxon. Citgo (which is in the process of changing their name to confuse us) is a Venezuelan company and is controlled by a man who wants to see the U. S. destroyed. Don’t worry about the independent stations, there is really no way to know where they buy their gas.
Ernie you are an a hole you should report yourself to the nearest mental institution. WAKE UP!
I wish we could get exxon outta here! creeps!
i think we shouldnt buy gas from any oil company
If you can negotiate a treaty with an oil-producing nation for personal shipments of oil, go right ahead. Then of course you’ll have to refine it yourself, but then you can have really cheap gas!
Oil prices are predicted to stabilize around 70$ a barrel, after the artificial high passes hopefully sometime this winter.
It is impossible to identify where gas stations get their supplies from. It’s a nice idea, but impossible to put into effective practice. As has been stated before, the major pipelines become ‘faceless’, so even if your local doesn’t say Exxon supplies them, they do.
It’s not a simple “A goes to B goes to C” scenario. Whether you buy the gas or not, Exxon is getting paid for it; if it’s not bought immediately, it goes into the surplus. Exxon still gets it’s money, and keeps working. The only people hurt by this sort of action are gas station owners.
I think you should not only boycott Mobile and Exxon but also Citgo and then also purchase fuel containing American produced ethanol whenever possible. Even go out of your way to purchase American produced ethanol.
Thank you
I have seen many of the comments asking for what stations are either supplied or owned by exxon/mobil. Here are a few: Mobile Marathon, Speedway, Super America, Holiday, Admiral, and Wawa Hope this will help some of those who are trying to fight the prices.
I will stop buying from ExxonMobil. That said, I hope gas prices continue to go up; I hope they go up so much that no one can afford them. Then we might actually be forced to look at an alternative way to get around… continuing to rely on gas until the day actually comes that we completely run out is a bad strategy. Not only will it result in an enormous world crisis, but we know full well that our dependence on gasoline is impacting the earth so negatively that the changing weather patterns, holes in the ozone, and dissappearing ice caps, coral reefs, and rain forests are miniscule events compared to what we will be faced with if we continue on the path we have chosen. fight exxon, and fight all oil. demand a better way. tell your congresspeople, hell, tell the companies that could actually stand to financially benefit from developing cars and other products that might release us from our oil dependence.
Huge numbers of Americans continue to drive SUV’s, making 2 or 3 times the carbon footprint you’d be making if you could deign to drive your 2 kids and your golf clubs around in a normal sized, 4 door sedan, or even something smaller. Just because you can AFFORD a $75 tank of gas twice a week doesn’t mean that you SHOULD. As for the people driving Hummers, that is the most disgusting and gluttonous thing I have ever seen. When it’s 140 degrees in the summer and we’re all dying of dehydration because there’s no fresh water left, I hope your proud of yourself for driving that ridiculous-looking vehicle. I hope your A/C works real, real good.
Most Americans are too selfish and apathetic to give enough of a damn, drive less, recycle, vote, or ask for alternative energy sources. That’s why I say, let it go up. I hope it’s $20 a gallon by next week. That sure as hell would make a few people think really hard about what we “need.”
Instead of asking “why are gas prices so high?” or “who’s getting all of the money?” we should be asking, “how do I stop using gas?” THAT’S where you’ll really stick it to them.
Avoid the following gas stations – a large part of the oil they purchase comes from the Middle East. Stop funding Islamic terrorism:
EXXON,
MOBIL,
CHEVRON,
TEXACO,
SHELL,
MARATHON,
ARCO,
MOTIVA,
VALERO,
DIAMOND SHAMROCK,
ULTRAMAR,
SPEEDWAY,
CALTEX,
BP,
AMOCO
Preferred stations – these stations buy less oil from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other fascist Islamic countries.
Citgo
Conoco
Phillips 66
Sunoco
Coastal/El Paso
FyingJ
Sinclair Oil
Vitol
ConocoPhillips (Union 76)
Tesoro Petroleum
Hess
Wal-Mart
Gas Boycott
5/15/08
And every
Tuesday
UNTIL GAS IS BELOW $2
DO THIS OR STOP BITCHING
If just 30 people read this and re-post. And each re-post it and at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) … and those 300 re-post it and at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) … and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it….. THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!”
Join the fight through MoveOn.org
my new bumper sticker –
“WARNING – HAZARDOUS TO THE ECONOMY
This vehicle will not run on EXXON GAS”
I had really no idea about this boycot, until today when i received a bulletin from one of my friends on my myspace page. If I had known about it, that there was an “active” movement to boycott the gas I would have been doing this sooner. I am wondering how does someone know which gas stations to buy from? I am going to make a conscience effort to steer clear of those stations. Please everyone lets all come together and stop these greedy bastards!! It is possible!
This site is a joke right??? People don’t really think not buying gas at Exxon is a solution do they?????? Where do you people come up with this stuff? Have you no understanding of the commodities market? Big Oil is not to blame… I know that might seem crazy to some who have posted here, but time to move away from boycott chain email tactics LOL…. maybe in 2010 then people will realize the boycott isn’t working they thought it would… All who have posted in favor of that, you are misguided and coming up with crazy emotional ideas out of nothing more than complete and total misinformation.
So I’ve got the list of preferred vendors as listed below, anyone who can add to this for the Austin TX area would be appreciated. J
Conoco, Phillips 66, Sunoco, Coastal/El Paso, FyingJ, Sinclair Oil, Vitol, ConocoPhillips (Union 76), Tesoro, Petroleum, Hess, Wal-Mart, Total, Elf, Elan, Jet.
I thought the spam email I just received saying to boycott the two (2) biggest oil companies was pretty stupid, saying to boycott Exxon and Mobile. Uhh… that’s one company now. Then I saw this discussion, and now I realize that the average intelligence of Americans seems to be inversely proportional to obesity rates.
Let’s see, this discussion has been going on since 2006 it looks like… and in that time, ExxonMobile has been posting record profits. Yeah, sounds like your voice is really being heard. If you want to send them a message, write a letter. You can actually see a volume of letters… “Look boss, another bin of letters from angry consumers!” That’d be better than the current, “Look boss, another record year!”
Exxon/mobil has shown how greedy corporate america can be , has been even during great depression and will continue to be in the future at the expense of this wasteful, oppressive nation of ours !!! Back to the drawing board as GM did in the 70′s for the high mileage vehicles !!! Time for a rebellion !!! You’re damn right it is !!! One thing for sure you can almost always believe opposite what the gov tells you !!!
You can find which stations sell Exxon gas by going to exxonmobil.com and go to station locator. you can find out which stations are near you.
I would definitly participate in this boycott of exxon and mobil, but i dont know which gas stations use them. how can anyone do this if we dont know where we can buy gas? will someone please tell me.
It is a supply and demand problem. It doesn’t matter who you boycott, you will still use the same amount of fuel, just from a different gas pump. A better boycott would be for everyone to stay home for a day or two.
Let’s buy all we can so China goes without!
First, learn how to spell ExxonMobil. Mobil does not have an “E” on the end. Secondly, getting on ExxonMobil is really old hat. They do not set the gas prices at the pump. Their net profit was about 9%. Do you know what Google’s was–25%. The other oil companies are probably in the same range but EM’s net profit $ are larger simply because their volume is more. Instead of crying about EM’s profits, spend some of that energy to learn about the fundamental laws of supply and demand. That is what’s driving the oil and gas prices.
Why are Oil companies given government subsidies? Does anyone even know a Senator or Representative who “actually represents the people who elected him?” Money is what talks and makes congressmen walk right up with their hands out!
Yes, I’m tired of paying such high prices for gas – when will the “every day worker” get the fuel increase that business are tacking on to their services? The utilities, waste haulers, delivery, groceries, etc. all have tacked on for the increase in fuel costs, but the working person is given no fuel cost increase to get to work!
Jim Finn, maybe you should learn the laws of economics, one of which states that the leader of the market (big gas companies, biggest being Exxon) sets prices, for the most part. And don’t correct people any more because you know as well as I do that because someone has a typo or spells a word incorrectly does not play any factor in their intelligence nor there argument, just because the illiterate person cant read the sign that says bathroom does not mean they don’t know how to use it!
To Kiriaki: Citgo is supplied by Venezuela…we are not supposed to support that dictator, either, so even though you are an independent, you are getting your supply from an American hater……..can’t go there.
I think this is a great idea and have sent on to over 30 people. Many of them have vowed to go along and send it on as well. Would be great to have help locating local area gas stations who do not buy EXXON/MOBIL-most stations are not very forthcoming.
Exxon/Mobil at 3700 W 190th in Torrance CA, to be picketed on June 25 thru
June 30, 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.(At Crenshaw and 190th St) Parking off of 190th Street in residential areas. You can either join us if you are local and/or can carpool or catch bus. Anyone else interested in doing same in your area upon Exxon/Mobil for that week, communicate, organize your groups and go for it. At the very least do not purchase from them for the week.
i say you go oil companies. i hope gas goes to $10.00 dollars a gallon in the usa. then only rich guys like me could afford to drive and the streets would be empty. i mean i have a 6 door hummer i drive and love it. like i said i hope gas goes to 10 dollars or higher so all of the peasants will be off the road.
your all losers
Hmm, Boycotting who exactly?
“Exxon Mobil is not alone among Big Oil exiting the retail gas business, a market where profits have gotten tougher as crude oil prices have risen. In fact, industry officials say the major oil companies own fewer than 5 percent of U.S. gas stations”
taken from;
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080613/ap_on_bi_ge/exxon_mobil_gas_stations_7
i used my credit card at the pump of an exxon station, receipt showed $13.03 charge, but when i checked my bank account $75 had been withdrawn, it was returned the next day, but this is plain horshi_. I am sure it is illegal as all get out. It is now a company policy, DO NOT FREQUENT THESE SLIMY COACHROACHES SCUMBAG STATIONS.
all other gas company buy there gas thru exxon mobil and the hedge funds and the ig banks are and the unstable world because of the current admenestration are the one to blame as soon as we have a new presedent the price well fall your boycout is not right get a life
I just sent this post to a bunch of my friends as I agree with most of what you’re saying here and the way you’ve presented it is awesome.
Folks… try to remember a couple of years ago when “speculators” ran up the price of a barrel of oil from $45 to $156 in just a matter of a couple of weeks. George W. Bush tried to run game and told folks he was going to see the King of Saudi Arabia and get him to lower the prices. He jumped on Air Force One and went to see the King. When he left Saudi Arabia… the King went on international television and told folks that Saudi Arabia, not the rest of the oil producing countries neither raised the price of a barrel of oil or cut production… and that the price was raised purely by speculation in the non-regulated hedge fund boards. Amazing… the guys who owned the companies ran the price of a barrel of oil up themselves. They won hundreds of billions on the (so-called) gamble and then on the raising of the price of gas at the pumps. Just don’t buy any gas at any station that has the Exxon sign or the Mobile sign. v
I think it is very simple,that we should not be looking for excuses to nothing, we by our very numbers have the power to effectively boycott greedy oil companies. I think we should probably start with ExxonMobil,then go to another oil company,and then continue to cycle thru various oil companies untill prices are lower. Spending probably two weeks on each company. Im not saying to try to break these companies, just let them know to lower prices so that we who support them can live. We should continue until they take notice. And we should ease up when they ease up.
What a load of crap, I wish people would be a little more educated. ExxonMobile (is one company, not two) does not control the worlds oil. In fact they are not even in the top 10 of largest oil producers. As of November 2010 National Iranian Oil was the largest. Them, Libya, and the Suadi’s are to blame for this.
You can always ask the gas station if you are not sure where they are buying their gas. I was told they have to tell you, if you ask. Please stop buying your gas from Exon Mobile at any cost. This is a desperate plea from everyone.If we,the people, don’t do something to help stop this,it will continue to climb in price.
We all need to band to gether. People think they control us!!! People guess what we control them. Don’t you think its abot time we all stand together and take back what belongs to us!!! We all need to start caring for each other.
When you go to a furniture store and want to buy the 699.99 sofa but it is now 1,199.99 and then tells you well I have driven all other furniture stores out of business and I price my furniture off of the futures market of raw materials. You will then see that THERE IS A PROBLEM. But by that time there will only be Upper-class and low class people.
I also predicted at 2.99 a gallon of gas that at 4.00 per gallon people will drive off and they did. Now all most all gas stations have cameras and are now back to 4.00 per gallon but this time three cars will meet two to three blocks away from two different stations, One will be two white guys in a Green SUV and the other 4 black guys in a Red four door car, the third will be 4 Asian and or Hispanic girls in a white many van. The guys will cover the plates and go fill up then leave with out paying and meet the girls uncover the plates and all the guys will get in the White Mini van and girls will drive off in the Red Car and Green SUV. Many won’t think of that AS A PROBLEM.
At 5.00 there will be property damage taken out on the gas stations.
At 6.00 per gallon people that have lost all hope in life for what ever reason will kill someone in the petroleum industry or maybe the alleged owner of a gas station or gas company before killing them self. After this happens a few times by unrelated people that feel they have nothing to live for then and only then everyone will understand the fact that THERE IS A PROBLEM.
Since the exxon valdez spill I never filled my car with exxon gas and will never the rest of my life.
A bunch of as… is running the company for too long and hope they will go to hell for what they done or did not do.
The best way to fight this is to buy automobiles that use the least amount of gas i.e.hybrids, electric, use public transportation, bike, walk, etc. Vote for those who are for phasing out gas-guzzling vehicles and alternative fuels and protecting the environment. Trying to boycott the greedy oil corporations is pretty useless. They have all kinds of schemes up their sleeves. That’s what they are about, it’s what they spend their lives at, deception, getting more and giving less.