Exxon Gas Boycott - urges towns to do the same

**webby** · 05-01-2006, 03:33 PM

The boycott against the world's largest oil company will continue until gas is down to $1.30 a gallon, said Martinez, the county's highest elected official.

Texas Town Calls For Boycott And Other Towns To Follow

(CBS/AP) High gas prices are unquestionably painful in this small South Texas town that is at least an hour's drive from malls and specialized medical care, but some residents are doubting the wisdom of the county board's call for a boycott of Exxon Mobil Corp.

"We just need to roll up our sleeves at the local level and do something about what's going on," County Judge Jimmy Martinez said.

Opponents of the boycott that starts Monday note that oil and gas taxes fund much of Bee County's budget, and they say a boycott could end up harming mom-and-pop gas stations whose main profits are not from oil.

The boycott against the world's largest oil company will continue until gas is down to $1.30 a gallon, said Martinez, the county's highest elected official. A gallon of regular unleaded cost $2.92 on average around the nation and $2.80 in the Corpus Christi region Sunday, according to AAA.

"I understand free enterprise. I understand we live in America. But, by golly, just because they have a license doesn't mean that they can rob," Martinez said.

A Beeville Bee-Picayune poll showed 72 percent of those surveyed plan to participate in the boycott.

The rural town of 13,000 people has fast-food restaurants and a Wal-Mart, but the long drive to other businesses and services is more than just an inconvenience for some locals.

"It's hurting everybody; everything is going up except the pay," said Debbie Ponce, a 35-year-old hairdresser who no longer makes the lengthy trip in her sport utility vehicle.

Martinez said Exxon, based near Dallas, was targeted because of its size and the message it sent with its recent compensation and pension package to former chief executive Lee Raymond. He received $69.7 million in compensation and a $98 million pension payout after retiring late last year.

"That's not right, not when they show those enormous profits that they're showing. This is un-American," Martinez told CBS Radio News.

But Exxon Mobil, which made $36 billion in profits last year, said supply and demand are mainly responsible for the high gas prices and pointed out that only about 13,000 of the country's 170,000 gas stations have the Exxon or Mobil brand. And all but about 1,000 of those are owned by franchisees, the company said.

Commissioner Susan Stasny, the only dissenter in Monday's 4-1 vote, noted the irony of the boycott coming from the heart of oil country.

In the past five years, she said, the county received $8 million in oil and gas tax revenues, with the county's four school districts receiving a combined $30 million.

"We're all concerned about the price of gasoline," she said. "However, the oil and gas industry has been very kind to Bee County."

Fuel is the lowest-profit item at the town's three Exxon stations, owner Leticia Munoz said, adding that her 51 employees fear for their jobs.

"They realize if it affects us, it'll affect them," said Munoz, whose profits come mainly from sales of tacos, sodas and other store items.

Martinez put out a newsletter Friday urging citizens to boycott only gas, not the convenience stores.

Munoz said she had gotten a few customers who wanted to show disapproval of the resolution by buying Exxon gas.

"One said he hadn't bought Exxon fuel in 33 years," she said.

Still, Exxon's reasoning in a statement that it "does not and could not control the market price of gasoline" doesn't matter much to the many who blame the oil companies.

"It's time for us to come together, band together, and do something about these outrageous prices at the pumps," Martinez said.

CHRIS · 05-01-2006, 03:45 PM

Still, Exxon's reasoning in a statement that it "does not and could not control the market price of gasoline" doesn't matter much to the many who blame the oil companies.

That staement is bull. You dont make billions of dollars profit at a gas station selling tacos and soda. The only thig that makes sense is the tax money that they pay out to the community. But even that amount doesn't seem high enough for there profit. They should cut there profit in half and dump that money into relieving gas prices. Theres one solution for us.

**CameronJr9** · 05-01-2006, 03:48 PM

Does anyone have a list of companies owned and operated by Exxon? This would also have to be a boycott against other materials, not just gasoline. Exxon produces motor oils, etc.

DuoVamp · 05-01-2006, 03:49 PM

I like to see a nice case of "Stickin' it to the man" every now and again. I hope something positive comes out of it...

**webby** · 05-01-2006, 04:03 PM

gasoline stations
kerosene
heating oil
diesel fuel
motor oil
aviation oil
convenient stores named "On The Run"
car washes/car garages

then they are with Mobil gas as well
so then you have mobil oil
mobil oil filters
forumula 1 and nascar ties

found this tidbit of info
"Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) is the largest publicly traded, integrated oil and gas company in the world, formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. It is the sixth-largest company in the world as ranked by the Forbes Global 2000 and the largest company in the U.S. as ranked by the Fortune 500. It is the largest of the four oil super majors, which also include BP (formerly British Petroleum), Royal Dutch Shell, and Total. It has the highest market value of any publicly traded company in the world"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enco
lots of info regarding what companies have the most money invested into exxon etc.

**CameronJr9** · 05-01-2006, 04:20 PM

The list of investors is a nice touch, but has anyone tried to find a list of all products made by this super giant? ExxonMobil is larger than Microsoft. It's larger than Wal-Mart. I'm all for a full-out boycott. I say once we get a list of products/companies, we pass this on to other forums, whether or not they are car-related.

Here's an interesting site:

http://www.badcorp.org/Company.cfm?a...w&caID=7321000

CHRIS · 05-03-2006, 01:02 PM

Got this in my work e-mail, im doing it!!!!

Subject: Gas Price Protest

This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one
of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It ' s worth your
consideration.

Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a gallon
by next summer and it might go higher!!
Want gasoline prices to come down?
We need to take some intelligent, united action. Phillip Hollsworth offered
this good idea.

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day"
campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just
laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves
by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a
problem for them.

BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really
work. Please read on and join with us! By now you're probably thinking
gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently$2.79
for regular unleaded in my town.
Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to
think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need
to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the
marketplace..... not sellers.
With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to
take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is
if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we
can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars,
we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if
we all act together to force a pricewar.

Here's the idea:

For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest
companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any
gas,they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their
prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and
Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out at this
point....keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions
of people.

I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten
more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to 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!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you
don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is
send this to 10people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a
mathematician. But I am, so trust me on this one.)

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten
morepeople within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could
conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!

I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you?

Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you,
please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL
UNTIL THEY LOWERTHEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK

**Silver8th** · 05-03-2006, 01:37 PM

I only get my gas from Quick Trip or Race Trac. I dont think either of those are affiliated with Exxon.

Tom1222 · 07-28-2006, 09:40 AM

Well, it is the end of July and Exxon is once again listing Record Breaking Profits for the last quarter. If they keep it up they will have a profit of over $40 Billion dollars this year. Plus gas is well over 3 bucks a gallon now and keep on inching up. I am currently paying $3.31 for Premium at my local BP station and some are as high as $3.59. That $1.30 price per Gallon will never ever happen again or even $2.30 per Gallon. We are getting conditioned to accept the higher gas prices and before this year is up they will approach near $5.00 dollars a gallon. We are all complaining but we are pretty much on the mercy of greedy Oil Executives and the Government must be getting their kickbacks since they are not willing to step in and do anything about it. I guess we can look on the bright side. In Europe gas is over $6.00 a gallon and rising. Of course they do have a lot better public transportation and more fuel efficient cars. Here we all still drive HUGE Hummers and Suv's while in the meantime the Oil Companies are laughing at us.

Tom1222 · 07-28-2006, 09:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CHRIS

Got this in my work e-mail, im doing it!!!!

Subject: Gas Price Protest

This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one
of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It ' s worth your
consideration.

Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a gallon
by next summer and it might go higher!!
Want gasoline prices to come down?
We need to take some intelligent, united action. Phillip Hollsworth offered
this good idea.

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day"
campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just
laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves
by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a
problem for them.

BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really
work. Please read on and join with us! By now you're probably thinking
gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently$2.79
for regular unleaded in my town.
Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to
think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need
to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the
marketplace..... not sellers.
With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to
take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is
if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we
can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars,
we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if
we all act together to force a pricewar.

Here's the idea:

For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest
companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any
gas,they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their
prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and
Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out at this
point....keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions
of people.

I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten
more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to 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!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you
don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is
send this to 10people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a
mathematician. But I am, so trust me on this one.)

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten
morepeople within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could
conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!

I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you?

Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you,
please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL
UNTIL THEY LOWERTHEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK

In Theory this can work but in reality there is No Way it will.
We Americans are too dependent on forgein Oil and we like to drive our cars and don't want to sacrifice anything. We are all becoming too lazy and complacent. It's signs of the world and rapture is near. Repent Repent!!

06Ex · 07-28-2006, 09:46 AM

You guys dont know anything about Market Share or the Economy if you think boycotting a few gas stations for a while is going to do anything to that company.

Gas prices suck, but there isnt anything you can do about it.

06Ex · 07-28-2006, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CHRIS

I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten
more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to 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!!!

There arent even 300 million people in this country. These emails have been going around for months now, and wow, the gas prices are still going up, big ******* suprise.

Quote:

Originally Posted by CHRIS

THIS CAN REALLY WORK

NO IT REALLY WONT.

06Ex · 07-28-2006, 09:50 AM

When are you guys going to learn. I know it sucks, but there really isnt to much we can do short of the Government stepping in. Which they wont, because somewhere in the back of my mind, I think the government is getting kickbacks, and they are using it to fund the War in Iraq. But thats just a theory.

***GeezerSi*** · 07-28-2006, 09:52 AM

This will not work. Sorry.

Tom1222 · 07-28-2006, 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 06Ex

When are you guys going to learn. I know it sucks, but there really isnt to much we can do short of the Government stepping in. Which they wont, because somewhere in the back of my mind, I think the government is getting kickbacks, and they are using it to fund the War in Iraq. But thats just a theory.

Pretty Good Theory but I think most of that money goes into some Fat Guys wallet so he can fill his swimming pool with Dom Perignon.

***Special Ringpop*** · 07-28-2006, 12:28 PM

The fact of the matter is that the average American is pissed about gas prices, but refuses to do anything to lower it.

These gas boycotts are good ideas, but they need to be on a national scale, and I doubt that will ever happen.

Most people get gas wherever. When they realize they need gas, they'll stop and get it. The problem is that Americans are typically uninformed, lazy, and naive consumers, and this is coming from an American.

Face it, they've got us by the balls, and until an executive administration does something about it (which won't happen until a democrat gets in office, probably), we're going to have to take getting raped by the prices, all the while minimum wage jobs are still paying unlivable wages.

Our country is going down hill, and I'm starting to wonder if it's because of a sick abuse of capitalism. How much profit does a company need until they start sucking the life out of America?

**CameronJr9** · 07-28-2006, 01:49 PM

Well...something needs to be done!

By ELIZABETH SOUDER / The Dallas Morning News

Exxon Mobil Corp. reported Thursday another whopping profit for the second quarter as the world's largest publicly traded company boosted production amid higher oil prices.

And even though the Irving company didn't refine as much of that oil into finished fuel products this year compared with last year, rising gasoline and diesel prices helped boost profit.

Exxon earnings rose 36 percent in the second quarter to $10.36 billion, and revenue rose 12 percent to $99.034 billion.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...n.12178cc.html

Tom1222 · 07-28-2006, 01:58 PM

I don't think that any one of us can do anything about the gas prices.
Even if we start using less gas (which will never happen) they will just reduce production to keep the rates high. And if that doesn't work they will come up with some other stupid excuse like the war with Israel and Lebanon or because President Bush washed his butt twice instead of once.
It's all based on predictions and futures and other bullcrap.
At this stage the only way to get the prices reduced would be with Government intervention and for some reason that idiot in office doesn't want to intervene at this point. Perhaps it is because of kickbacks and other corruption or maybe the reason is that this guy is really to naive to even realize how up shit creek this situation is really getting.

**CameronJr9** · 07-28-2006, 02:17 PM

05-01-2006, 03:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
webby Acorns! Join Date: May 2005 Location: Storage Room B Posts: 12,587 iTrader: 11 / 100%	Exxon Gas Boycott - urges towns to do the same The boycott against the world's largest oil company will continue until gas is down to $1.30 a gallon, said Martinez, the county's highest elected official. Texas Town Calls For Boycott And Other Towns To Follow (CBS/AP) High gas prices are unquestionably painful in this small South Texas town that is at least an hour's drive from malls and specialized medical care, but some residents are doubting the wisdom of the county board's call for a boycott of Exxon Mobil Corp. "We just need to roll up our sleeves at the local level and do something about what's going on," County Judge Jimmy Martinez said. Opponents of the boycott that starts Monday note that oil and gas taxes fund much of Bee County's budget, and they say a boycott could end up harming mom-and-pop gas stations whose main profits are not from oil. The boycott against the world's largest oil company will continue until gas is down to $1.30 a gallon, said Martinez, the county's highest elected official. A gallon of regular unleaded cost $2.92 on average around the nation and $2.80 in the Corpus Christi region Sunday, according to AAA. "I understand free enterprise. I understand we live in America. But, by golly, just because they have a license doesn't mean that they can rob," Martinez said. A Beeville Bee-Picayune poll showed 72 percent of those surveyed plan to participate in the boycott. The rural town of 13,000 people has fast-food restaurants and a Wal-Mart, but the long drive to other businesses and services is more than just an inconvenience for some locals. "It's hurting everybody; everything is going up except the pay," said Debbie Ponce, a 35-year-old hairdresser who no longer makes the lengthy trip in her sport utility vehicle. Martinez said Exxon, based near Dallas, was targeted because of its size and the message it sent with its recent compensation and pension package to former chief executive Lee Raymond. He received $69.7 million in compensation and a $98 million pension payout after retiring late last year. "That's not right, not when they show those enormous profits that they're showing. This is un-American," Martinez told CBS Radio News. But Exxon Mobil, which made $36 billion in profits last year, said supply and demand are mainly responsible for the high gas prices and pointed out that only about 13,000 of the country's 170,000 gas stations have the Exxon or Mobil brand. And all but about 1,000 of those are owned by franchisees, the company said. Commissioner Susan Stasny, the only dissenter in Monday's 4-1 vote, noted the irony of the boycott coming from the heart of oil country. In the past five years, she said, the county received $8 million in oil and gas tax revenues, with the county's four school districts receiving a combined $30 million. "We're all concerned about the price of gasoline," she said. "However, the oil and gas industry has been very kind to Bee County." Fuel is the lowest-profit item at the town's three Exxon stations, owner Leticia Munoz said, adding that her 51 employees fear for their jobs. "They realize if it affects us, it'll affect them," said Munoz, whose profits come mainly from sales of tacos, sodas and other store items. Martinez put out a newsletter Friday urging citizens to boycott only gas, not the convenience stores. Munoz said she had gotten a few customers who wanted to show disapproval of the resolution by buying Exxon gas. "One said he hadn't bought Exxon fuel in 33 years," she said. Still, Exxon's reasoning in a statement that it "does not and could not control the market price of gasoline" doesn't matter much to the many who blame the oil companies. "It's time for us to come together, band together, and do something about these outrageous prices at the pumps," Martinez said.

05-01-2006, 03:48 PM	#3 (permalink)
CameronJr9 Crazy Yellow Puppet Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Louisville, KY Age: 28 Posts: 25,188 Back and Forth Forever iTrader: 6 / 100%	Does anyone have a list of companies owned and operated by Exxon? This would also have to be a boycott against other materials, not just gasoline. Exxon produces motor oils, etc. __________________

05-01-2006, 04:20 PM	#6 (permalink)
CameronJr9 Crazy Yellow Puppet Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Louisville, KY Age: 28 Posts: 25,188 Back and Forth Forever iTrader: 6 / 100%	The list of investors is a nice touch, but has anyone tried to find a list of all products made by this super giant? ExxonMobil is larger than Microsoft. It's larger than Wal-Mart. I'm all for a full-out boycott. I say once we get a list of products/companies, we pass this on to other forums, whether or not they are car-related. Here's an interesting site: http://www.badcorp.org/Company.cfm?a...w&caID=7321000 __________________

05-03-2006, 01:02 PM	#7 (permalink)
CHRIS Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: The Big Apple Age: 23 Posts: 5,361 iTrader: 0 / 0%	gas protest Got this in my work e-mail, im doing it!!!! Subject: Gas Price Protest This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It ' s worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us! By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently$2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..... not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a pricewar. Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas,they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out at this point....keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people. I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to 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!!! Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am, so trust me on this one.) How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten morepeople within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you? Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWERTHEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK

05-03-2006, 01:37 PM	#8 (permalink)
Silver8th Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 6,639 iTrader: 4 / 100%	I only get my gas from Quick Trip or Race Trac. I dont think either of those are affiliated with Exxon. __________________

05-01-2006, 03:45 PM	#2 (permalink)
CHRIS Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: The Big Apple Age: 23 Posts: 5,361 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Still, Exxon's reasoning in a statement that it "does not and could not control the market price of gasoline" doesn't matter much to the many who blame the oil companies. That staement is bull. You dont make billions of dollars profit at a gas station selling tacos and soda. The only thig that makes sense is the tax money that they pay out to the community. But even that amount doesn't seem high enough for there profit. They should cut there profit in half and dump that money into relieving gas prices. Theres one solution for us.

05-01-2006, 03:49 PM	#4 (permalink)
DuoVamp Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: In Tokyo, with sad tragic blues Age: 21 Posts: 42 iTrader: 0 / 0%	I like to see a nice case of "Stickin' it to the man" every now and again. I hope something positive comes out of it...

05-01-2006, 04:03 PM	#5 (permalink)
webby Acorns! Join Date: May 2005 Location: Storage Room B Posts: 12,587 iTrader: 11 / 100%	gasoline stations kerosene heating oil diesel fuel motor oil aviation oil convenient stores named "On The Run" car washes/car garages then they are with Mobil gas as well so then you have mobil oil mobil oil filters forumula 1 and nascar ties found this tidbit of info "Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) is the largest publicly traded, integrated oil and gas company in the world, formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. It is the sixth-largest company in the world as ranked by the Forbes Global 2000 and the largest company in the U.S. as ranked by the Fortune 500. It is the largest of the four oil super majors, which also include BP (formerly British Petroleum), Royal Dutch Shell, and Total. It has the highest market value of any publicly traded company in the world" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enco lots of info regarding what companies have the most money invested into exxon etc.

07-28-2006, 09:40 AM	#9 (permalink)
Tom1222 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana USA Posts: 3,125 Tom Smith iTrader: 6 / 100%	Well, it is the end of July and Exxon is once again listing Record Breaking Profits for the last quarter. If they keep it up they will have a profit of over $40 Billion dollars this year. Plus gas is well over 3 bucks a gallon now and keep on inching up. I am currently paying $3.31 for Premium at my local BP station and some are as high as $3.59. That $1.30 price per Gallon will never ever happen again or even $2.30 per Gallon. We are getting conditioned to accept the higher gas prices and before this year is up they will approach near $5.00 dollars a gallon. We are all complaining but we are pretty much on the mercy of greedy Oil Executives and the Government must be getting their kickbacks since they are not willing to step in and do anything about it. I guess we can look on the bright side. In Europe gas is over $6.00 a gallon and rising. Of course they do have a lot better public transportation and more fuel efficient cars. Here we all still drive HUGE Hummers and Suv's while in the meantime the Oil Companies are laughing at us.

07-28-2006, 09:46 AM	#11 (permalink)
06Ex Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 25 Posts: 325 iTrader: 0 / 0%	You guys dont know anything about Market Share or the Economy if you think boycotting a few gas stations for a while is going to do anything to that company. Gas prices suck, but there isnt anything you can do about it.

07-28-2006, 09:50 AM	#13 (permalink)
06Ex Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 25 Posts: 325 iTrader: 0 / 0%	When are you guys going to learn. I know it sucks, but there really isnt to much we can do short of the Government stepping in. Which they wont, because somewhere in the back of my mind, I think the government is getting kickbacks, and they are using it to fund the War in Iraq. But thats just a theory.

07-28-2006, 09:52 AM	#14 (permalink)
*GeezerSi* Hidy ho neighbor Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Palm, PA Posts: 12,657 -> Ken iTrader: 5 / 100%	This will not work. Sorry. __________________

07-28-2006, 01:49 PM	#17 (permalink)
CameronJr9 Crazy Yellow Puppet Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Louisville, KY Age: 28 Posts: 25,188 Back and Forth Forever iTrader: 6 / 100%	Well...something needs to be done! By ELIZABETH SOUDER / The Dallas Morning News Exxon Mobil Corp. reported Thursday another whopping profit for the second quarter as the world's largest publicly traded company boosted production amid higher oil prices. And even though the Irving company didn't refine as much of that oil into finished fuel products this year compared with last year, rising gasoline and diesel prices helped boost profit. Exxon earnings rose 36 percent in the second quarter to $10.36 billion, and revenue rose 12 percent to $99.034 billion. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...n.12178cc.html __________________

07-28-2006, 01:58 PM	#18 (permalink)
Tom1222 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana USA Posts: 3,125 Tom Smith iTrader: 6 / 100%	I don't think that any one of us can do anything about the gas prices. Even if we start using less gas (which will never happen) they will just reduce production to keep the rates high. And if that doesn't work they will come up with some other stupid excuse like the war with Israel and Lebanon or because President Bush washed his butt twice instead of once. It's all based on predictions and futures and other bullcrap. At this stage the only way to get the prices reduced would be with Government intervention and for some reason that idiot in office doesn't want to intervene at this point. Perhaps it is because of kickbacks and other corruption or maybe the reason is that this guy is really to naive to even realize how up shit creek this situation is really getting.

07-28-2006, 02:17 PM	#19 (permalink)
CameronJr9 Crazy Yellow Puppet Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Louisville, KY Age: 28 Posts: 25,188 Back and Forth Forever iTrader: 6 / 100%	__________________