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Summer Gas Prices Could Reach $4

Doug

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This was sent to me and thought it very interesting -

Subject: Where to Buy American Gasoline


WHERE TO BUY AMERICAN GASOLINE. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT TO KNOW. READ ON.
Gas rationing in the 70's worked even though we grumbled about it. It might even have been good for us!
Are you aware that the Saudis are boycotting American products? In addition, they are gouging us on oil prices.
Shouldn't we return the favor? Can't we take control of our own destiny and let these giant oil importers know who REALLY generates their profits, their livings? How about leaving American Dollars in America and reduce the import/export deficit?
An appealing remedy might be to boycott their GAS. Every time you fill up your car you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia . Just purchase gas from companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis.
Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill up my tank, I'm sending my money to people who I get the impression want me, my family and my friends dead. The following gas companies import Middle Eastern oil:
Shell.................................... 205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco.................... 144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil........................ 130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway............. 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco.................................. 62,231,000 barrels
And CITGO oil is imported from Venezuela by Dictator Hugo Chavez who hates America and openly avows our economic destruction! (We pay Chavez's regime nearly $10 Billion per year in oil revenues!)
The U.S. currently imports 5,517,000 barrels of crude oil per day from OPEC. If you do the math at $100 per barrel, that's over $550 million PER DAY ($200 BILLION per year!) handed over to OPEC, many of whose members are our confirmed enemies!!!!! It won't stop here - oil prices could go to $200 a barrel or higher if we keep buying their product.
Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
Sunoco......................... 0 barrels
Conoco........................ 0 barrels
Sinclair....................... 0 barrels
BP / Phillips................ 0 barrels
Hess. ............................. 0 barrels
ARC0............................. 0 barrels
Maverick......................... 0 barrels
Flying J. .......................... 0 barrels (Smith's on Cerrillos)
Valero............................ 0 barrels
Murphy Oil USA* ............. 0 Sold at Wal-Mart , gas is from South Arkansas and fully USA owned and produced.

*Not only that but they give scholarships to all children in their town who finish high school and are legal US citizens..

All of this information is available from the U.S. Department of Energy and each company is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.

But to have a real impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers With the help of the internet, 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'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at only 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 generation 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-the entire population of the United States of America !!!!

Again, all you have to do is forward this message to 10 people. How long would that really take you? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people, within one day all 300 MILLION people could theoretically be contacted during the next eight days!
 

cnassif

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In San Diego gas is running about US$4.50 per gallon (US$1.19 per liter) for 87 octane. I filled up my truck to go pick up a 68 289 engine and it cost me $80! Will be riding my motorcycle a lot more (50+ MPG) when I'm not hauling Mustang parts :)
 

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cnassif

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Mexican Gas

I heard that gas is cheaper just over the border ... has anyone ever considered it?? ...

(check it out: http://blogs.thecarconnection.com/blogs/marty_blog/driving/want-cheap-gas-head-over-to-mexico/ )

A lot of my friends have said that it's a good deal (about 1/2 the price) but you never know what you're really getting when it comes to quality and octane. One of my buddies was getting gas down there told me that his engine started knocking and pinging when he filled up down there but the noises went away when he bought US Gas (other than ARCO). So I figured it's not worth the savings to ruin my engine...just my two cents.
 

GT/CS S Code

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Canadian gas up again this weekend ....

Well, as I previously predicted and true to form, they raised the gas prices again over the holiday weekend so right now we're at $1.53 Canadian per litre, or about $6.12 per US gallon .... for 87 octane Regular. We're expecting the possibility of having to pay up to $2.00 per litre by the end of this year if this continues.
B.C. seems to be on the high end of things, with the prices in Vancouver even slightly higher than that, but the prices back East seem to run a little bit lower. My step-daughter out in Winnipeg said they're paying about $1.40 per litre right now.
:mad:
 

Doug

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Well, as I previously predicted and true to form, they raised the gas prices again over the holiday weekend so right now we're at $1.53 Canadian per litre, or about $6.12 per US gallon .... for 87 octane Regular.


So as I see it in S. CA with regular at $4.73 a gal - gas prices are a bargin when compared to Canada. Have a great weekend.
 

Doug

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So as I see it in S. CA with regular at $4.73 a gal - gas prices are a bargin when compared to Canada. Have a great weekend.

When gas prices were going skyhigh we were tracking how high they were. So I thought you'd be intreseted what I paid for gas yesterday; it was $2.49 (Regular) - DOWN $2.24 from July 3rd. Premium was $2.61. DOUG
 

68CaliSp

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A quick google search sent me here. I'm glad to see Cali still has some of the highest prices around and even happier I moved :grin: Although, when I get back to MO it is going to be the middle of winter so the CS will be pampered away in the garage. :frust:
 

GT/CS S Code

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Gas down a bit in Canada now ...

Well, with the drop in crude per barrel prices these last few weeks our local gas has now dropped to 97.9 cents per litre. (This past summer we hit all time highs of about 149.9 per litre) Interesting that when crude oil was down at these same sort of prices per barrel last time (a little while back of course) the price at the pumps was only at about 75 cents a litre.
:confused:
One of those things that makes you go ...... hmmmmm.
Seems the oil companies are very quick to raise the pump prices when crude goes up, within a day of the change in price on the world market, but now that it is dropping down again they're being just a little bit slow in dropping the pump prices in relation to their current costs.
Just my humble opinion of course ....
:mad:
 

Perkchiro

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A quick google search sent me here. I'm glad to see Cali still has some of the highest prices around and even happier I moved :grin: Although, when I get back to MO it is going to be the middle of winter so the CS will be pampered away in the garage. :frust:

Welcome to the great state of Missouri. I'm a California transplant too. 38 degrees today and moving toward Winter. It only takes a season or two to get acclimated. In what part of the state will you be? Nice having another CS in our region. Good luck with the move.
 

Dougxox

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A quick google search sent me here. I'm glad to see Cali still has some of the highest prices around and even happier I moved :grin: Although, when I get back to MO it is going to be the middle of winter so the CS will be pampered away in the garage. :frust:

what do you mean pamperer away in the garage??? :grin:. Mines a daily driver, only time I don't take it out is when it snows or ice.( steal my dads expedition).
gas here at $1.79 for regular.
 
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