Don't buy MOBIL/EXXON

[Green Mountain]

Today I got an email that makes a lot of sense. The gas companies know that we will buy gas no matter what. So a "don't drive on Tuesday" boycott won't work.

The plan is to not buy gas from the biggest gas company which is Mobil/Exxon. Buy everyone else's gas. When Mobil sees that they are losing customers and revenues to their competitors then they will do something about it. They will start a price war. Simple plan and if it doesn't work we still aren't out anything. DON'T buy MOBIL/EXXON.

 

[bwerb]

the e-mail you received is 100% bunkum!

I just re-read your post...I meant to say that any "consumers group" deciding not to buy say Exxon fuel won't do diddly to the price of oil. It is totally controlled by the commodities market, not the consumer. Even if a "large" group of consumers decided to boycott, Exxon etc. sell around the world to other countries and domestically sell fuel to airlines, commercial shipping, commercial trucking etc. in staggering quantities which will again not be affected by an "e-mail driven" consumer boycott.

Just my thoughts...kinda nice to know how powerless you are in the big oil picture huh.

 

[jbd]

are traded as commodities. Look to the speculators for the price increases.

 

[k4sdi]

Call it what it really is, an oil cartel.




Mark

 

[scuberd]

k4sdi once bubbled...
Call it what it really is, an oil cartel.

I heard the BBC call OPEC an oil cartel

 

[Green Mountain]

guys are right. But, I think I'll give my Gulf credit card a work out just in case. It will make me feel better anyways.

 

[Lawman]

fall out of the oil market, it's pretty simple.
George Bush goes on TV and mentions that
rather than the US investing 1.5 billion in hydrogen
fuel engins, we're investing 50 billion.

The crashing sound you would hear are oil
company stocks.

 

[gfisher4792]

I work in an environmental consultant company, hired by various oil companies to clean up their messes (gas station, terminals, etc.). Another reason that boycotting one company would have little effect is that many of the other gas stations get their gas from the same exact oil delivery terminal. Many of the smaller gas stations companies (Gulf, Getty, Sunoco, Citgo, etc.) don't own the necessary oil refineries to supply gas to all their stations, so they end up purchasing gasoline from other, larger companies (Exxon/Mobil, BP)! In one instance we were fingerprinting gasoline that was discovered in a catchbasin, and took samples from the 5 closest gas stations (all within 1/2 mile radius). All the samples matched exactly!

 

[TCDiver1]

IMO, thats the smartest thing GW could do. Anything to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. 1.5 billion is nothing, heck 50 billion is nothing but a drop in the bucket for research. GW is screwing the pooch by not jumping on that one harder. Just fortifies peoples opinion that he is pro oil.

The middle east situation is a no-winner, no matter what we do. The quicker we lower that region on our national interest priority list, the better.

You don't want the oil companies to go down, give em the rights to build the hydrogen engines.

 

[DivePartner1]

was debunked by The Urban Legend:

See:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl-boycott-oil.htm

It's based on a number of false premises that can be tracked on that site's research.