These boycott, reduce consumption schemes are becoming tedious. I can't open my e-mail without fifteen of these things being forwarded to me. The latest one I received really takes the cake because it is based on a flawed premise. Understand that Exxon/Mobil is a "oil" company..... not a "gasoline" company. Their retail gasoline sales only comprise a small portion of annual revenue flow. In fact, last month they announced they will be selling off the last of their retail stations. SOOO.... how exactly are you going to boycott them?
Exxon/Mobil business is exploration, drilling, and oil production. The companies that refine oil to gasoline are their customers not us. And those are not the type of customers that will boycott them. Even if they did the oil market is global, if one or even twenty American refiners did so it would be a drop in the bucket when you take into consideration the demand from markets in China and India. The foreign refiners would actually benefit from a drop in demand in the US, it would leave more oil on the world market for them to refine and sell to their customers..... and guess what Exxon/Mobil will be happy to sell them the oil.
I'm getting a little bored with Americans that spend every waking moment complaining over the price of food, the price of gas, the price of housing. Be honest, when is the last time you went to a gas pump and found it empty, or wasn't able to buy your favorite brand of breakfast cereal at the store?
It is time that we Americans stop acting like spoiled rotten brats, we are the minority when it comes to having simple comforts available to us. There are billions of people on this planet that exist with less and long for more. Even the poorest of this country are far better off than many tens of millions around the world. How many homes of poor folks in this nation are without TV's, Playstations and DVD players? Let alone electricity or phone service. Get real folks.
Which reminds me.....someone want to tell me how in this recession riddled economy its people were able to spend 540 billion dollars on the "Grand Theft Auto 4" videogame????
I know these "put pressure on big oil" schemes seem logical but they really aren't. If we as Americans want to really do something how about starting with the 500+ idiotic congress men and women in Washington DC who's answer to high gasoline prices was to try to pass a windfall profits tax bill that would have increased the price of gasoline.
Write them, e-mail them, become a nuisance to them, and vote the morons who don't hear us out. Tell them "Hey idiots in DC, while your posturing and playing politics it just cost me $100 to fill my truck. How about you morons stop impeding and start helping the only people that can help us..... the OIL COMPANIES! Help them and encourage them to DRILL, DRILL, and DRILL SOME MORE!" Lets find our own oil and stop relying on nations who are not our friends.
And I could give a damn if some Hollywood celebrity has to look at an oil rig off the beach of their multimillion dollar Malibu mansion. The fact is until the viable replacement for fossil fuel is found we need to find as much of it as we can. If we don't another nation will. We have the Chinese at this very moment drilling for oil 60 miles off the coast of Florida.... but because of our intelligent lawmakers our own oil companies prohibited from drilling there.
The majority of our imported oil comes from Canada, that's right Canada. They get it from the oil sands in Alberta, we have even larger deposits of oil sands in Montana and North Dakota than the Canadians but because of ignorant environmental regulations we can't develop them even though large tracts of the land in question is privately held.
Something is wrong with all this folks and its not going to get better until Americans do what those in generations past have...... roll up our sleeves and fix it. Quit crying, stop pointing fingers, cowboy up and FIX IT.....where is John Wayne when we need him?
Exxon/Mobil business is exploration, drilling, and oil production. The companies that refine oil to gasoline are their customers not us. And those are not the type of customers that will boycott them. Even if they did the oil market is global, if one or even twenty American refiners did so it would be a drop in the bucket when you take into consideration the demand from markets in China and India. The foreign refiners would actually benefit from a drop in demand in the US, it would leave more oil on the world market for them to refine and sell to their customers..... and guess what Exxon/Mobil will be happy to sell them the oil.
I'm getting a little bored with Americans that spend every waking moment complaining over the price of food, the price of gas, the price of housing. Be honest, when is the last time you went to a gas pump and found it empty, or wasn't able to buy your favorite brand of breakfast cereal at the store?
It is time that we Americans stop acting like spoiled rotten brats, we are the minority when it comes to having simple comforts available to us. There are billions of people on this planet that exist with less and long for more. Even the poorest of this country are far better off than many tens of millions around the world. How many homes of poor folks in this nation are without TV's, Playstations and DVD players? Let alone electricity or phone service. Get real folks.
Which reminds me.....someone want to tell me how in this recession riddled economy its people were able to spend 540 billion dollars on the "Grand Theft Auto 4" videogame????
I know these "put pressure on big oil" schemes seem logical but they really aren't. If we as Americans want to really do something how about starting with the 500+ idiotic congress men and women in Washington DC who's answer to high gasoline prices was to try to pass a windfall profits tax bill that would have increased the price of gasoline.
Write them, e-mail them, become a nuisance to them, and vote the morons who don't hear us out. Tell them "Hey idiots in DC, while your posturing and playing politics it just cost me $100 to fill my truck. How about you morons stop impeding and start helping the only people that can help us..... the OIL COMPANIES! Help them and encourage them to DRILL, DRILL, and DRILL SOME MORE!" Lets find our own oil and stop relying on nations who are not our friends.
And I could give a damn if some Hollywood celebrity has to look at an oil rig off the beach of their multimillion dollar Malibu mansion. The fact is until the viable replacement for fossil fuel is found we need to find as much of it as we can. If we don't another nation will. We have the Chinese at this very moment drilling for oil 60 miles off the coast of Florida.... but because of our intelligent lawmakers our own oil companies prohibited from drilling there.
The majority of our imported oil comes from Canada, that's right Canada. They get it from the oil sands in Alberta, we have even larger deposits of oil sands in Montana and North Dakota than the Canadians but because of ignorant environmental regulations we can't develop them even though large tracts of the land in question is privately held.
Something is wrong with all this folks and its not going to get better until Americans do what those in generations past have...... roll up our sleeves and fix it. Quit crying, stop pointing fingers, cowboy up and FIX IT.....where is John Wayne when we need him?
