Re: OT, What else, gas prices

Posted by john in la on April 22, 2006 at 05:12:11 from (65.6.118.210):

In Reply to: OT, What else, gas prices posted by Dan in Ore on April 22, 2006 at 02:13:46:

I have also seen this e-mail. In fact my sister sent it to me. To the common lay person it seems like a good idea but lets look at the facts.

If we were to buy the same amount of gas a day just not from Exxon what would happen. We would hurt the mom and pop station owners; period....

The Exxon refinery that I load gas at has several brands. Shell; Exxon; Shamrock; Chevron; Unbranded; Citgo; ect. If you were to stop buying Exxon gas you would just buy another brand and I would still load it at the Exxon refinery and just deliver it to another station.
The same thing holds true for the Shell refinery 80 miles away.
Also refineries put gas on pipe lines that run all over the country. It may come from Exxon but by the time it gets to Maryland it may in fact go to a Shell loading rack.
So a refinery puts XX amount of gas into a pipe line and gets XX out. The difference is called EXCHANGE FUEL. In turn the company (Exxon) would either have to pay or receive cash for the excess.

So lets look at your plan...........
Stop buying all Exxon gas. Exxon will still buy oil and refine it into gas. They will still sell it at their loading racks and to the pipe line. In fact if Exxon stopped producing gas at its refineries there would be a major gas shortage and prices would rocket up.
So who did you hurt.
Yes you hurt Exxon at the store level since they have many company owned stores but you also hurt all the mom and pop Exxon station owners. In fact you bankrupted them making less stations and giving other companies a monopoly allowing for price increases.

The only way to reduce gas prices (and I am sad to say it) is for America to explore other forms of energy so gas is not the only kid on the block OR by cutting consumption forcing a gas excess in the market.
As long as we use SUV's and 4 door 1 tons to run to the corner store for a gallon of milk; and are more worried how we look in front of the neighbors than our bottom line gas will continue to go up.

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• Re: OT, What else, gas prices rgvtx 06:57:03 04/22/06 (0)
• Re: OT, What else, gas prices RustyFarmall 06:43:23 04/22/06 (0)

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