Boycott Exxon & Mobil
 

In article ,
George Orwell wrote:

Mobil/Exxon posted the largest profit in history, last quarter!


Good, I own stock. Why are you ****ed at success? Loser.

From: nobody

Good, I own stock. Why are you ****ed at success? Loser.

Well, if that's your sense of corporate ethics, don't forget to buy stock in
Halliburton. But, wait, Bush is making them return some of the profits they
made for selling gas at $2.80 a gallon in Baghdad. So, even the mighty "Shrub"
recognizes that there is indeed a line where profits become gouging, right?

At least from the political perspective of an upcoming election...


Michael Bryant, WA4009SWL
Louisville, KY
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Michael Bryant wrote:

From: nobody

Good, I own stock. Why are you ****ed at success? Loser.

Well, if that's your sense of corporate ethics, don't forget to buy stock in
Halliburton. But, wait, Bush is making them return some of the profits they
made for selling gas at $2.80 a gallon in Baghdad. So, even the mighty "Shrub"
recognizes that there is indeed a line where profits become gouging, right?

$2.80? Better check your facts. Halliburton's KBR subsidiary charged the Army
between $1.62 and $1.70 per gallon. While the average price in the Middle East
is/was around $.71 per gallon, Halliburton charged that price for 'guaranteed'
delivery. Not to bad considering the logistics of doing so in a war zone.

Could you do better? No? I thought not.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

N8KDV schrieb:



$2.80? Better check your facts. Halliburton's KBR subsidiary charged the Army
between $1.62 and $1.70 per gallon. While the average price in the Middle East
is/was around $.71 per gallon, Halliburton charged that price for 'guaranteed'
delivery. Not to bad considering the logistics of doing so in a war zone.


You're all living in cardrivers heaven....
In europe gasoline 91 octane sells for about US$ 5(!) per gallon. That
is a bit more than 1EUR per litre. At laest it is a want from politics
as there is at least 2/3 of taxes in that selling price. And too bad
they want to go up to 2.50EUR per litre(!) in the next few years :-(((
So 1(!) gallon will cost about US$ 9.50 in near future.....
reminder: 1 gallon is 3.8litre

Volker

Can you imagine the nerve of the guy driving a gasoline tanker in a war
zone!

-- Stinger

"N8KDV" wrote in message
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Michael Bryant wrote:

From: nobody

Good, I own stock. Why are you ****ed at success? Loser.

Well, if that's your sense of corporate ethics, don't forget to buy
stock in
Halliburton. But, wait, Bush is making them return some of the profits
they
made for selling gas at $2.80 a gallon in Baghdad. So, even the mighty
"Shrub"
recognizes that there is indeed a line where profits become gouging,
right?

$2.80? Better check your facts. Halliburton's KBR subsidiary charged the
Army
between $1.62 and $1.70 per gallon. While the average price in the Middle
East
is/was around $.71 per gallon, Halliburton charged that price for
'guaranteed'
delivery. Not to bad considering the logistics of doing so in a war zone.

Could you do better? No? I thought not.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

Stinger schrieb:

Can you imagine the nerve of the guy driving a gasoline tanker in a war
zone!

No, because he has to have no nerve.... ;-)

odo

Attention to "nobody": Success as you call it is not against the law,
but "financial intercourse" is.

I can see why you bought their stock.

Boycott is a perfect program to get their attention, but it takes more
than a few, it takes millions of Americans to join. I understand that
there are over 300k already involved in just 3 days from an email I
received two days ago. As requested I sent the email I received out to
everyone on my email list.

N8KDV wrote:

Michael Bryant wrote:

From: nobody

Good, I own stock. Why are you ****ed at success? Loser.

Well, if that's your sense of corporate ethics, don't forget to buy stock in
Halliburton. But, wait, Bush is making them return some of the profits they
made for selling gas at $2.80 a gallon in Baghdad. So, even the mighty "Shrub"
recognizes that there is indeed a line where profits become gouging, right?

$2.80? Better check your facts. Halliburton's KBR subsidiary charged the Army
between $1.62 and $1.70 per gallon. While the average price in the Middle East
is/was around $.71 per gallon, Halliburton charged that price for 'guaranteed'
delivery. Not to bad considering the logistics of doing so in a war zone.

Could you do better? No? I thought not.

Steve
Holland, MI
Drake R7, R8 and R8B

http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/dxpage.htm

In article , wrote:

Attention to "nobody": Success as you call it is not against the law,
but "financial intercourse" is.


Care to cite that law?



I can see why you bought their stock.

Boycott is a perfect program to get their attention, but it takes more
than a few, it takes millions of Americans to join.


Ya could try ****ing up a rope or shoveling **** against the tide too,
you'll have just as much luck. Hahahahahahahahahahaha.

"nobody" wrote in message
...
In article , wrote:

Attention to "nobody": Success as you call it is not against the law,
but "financial intercourse" is.


Care to cite that law?


There are laws (federal and state) against price gouging. These laws were
used to prosecute some vendors in the short term after the 9/11 attacks,
when some stations were selling gasoline for $5 a gallon. They were also
used (and well I remember) during the Arab Oil Embargo in the 70's when gas
stations everywhere raised prices from 30 cents a gallon to in some cases
over $1 a gallon (our stations in Oregon averaged around 79 cents/gallon).
At that time, offenders were made to give out several millions of gallons of
free gasoline (if you weren't around back then, you would never believe the
lines... we could only buy gasoline on alternate days, and the lines were
often 3 to 4 blocks long waiting to get in (and the gas was being rationed,
as we later found, not by the govt., but by the oil companies.. those lines
were nothing compared to the days when the feds required the oil companies
to give away the free gasoline... )

"nobody" wrote in message
...

Yeah, but how does that apply to Exxon-Mobil today. As other posters
have admitted, Exxon-Mobil prices are quite competitive.

Given... but (and not that I'm saying this is the case currently),
competitive doesn't necessarily mean legal. During the aformentioned
embargo, all the oil companys' stations were competitive, but were still
gouging. And all paid the price for it.

Brenda Ann wrote:

There are laws (federal and state) against price gouging. These laws were
used to prosecute some vendors in the short term after the 9/11 attacks,
when some stations were selling gasoline for $5 a gallon. They were also
used (and well I remember) during the Arab Oil Embargo in the 70's when gas
stations everywhere raised prices from 30 cents a gallon to in some cases
over $1 a gallon (our stations in Oregon averaged around 79 cents/gallon).
At that time, offenders were made to give out several millions of gallons of
free gasoline (if you weren't around back then, you would never believe the
lines... we could only buy gasoline on alternate days, and the lines were
often 3 to 4 blocks long waiting to get in (and the gas was being rationed,
as we later found, not by the govt., but by the oil companies.. those lines
were nothing compared to the days when the feds required the oil companies
to give away the free gasoline... )

Brenda we are all aware that the Govt. work so slow it takes years to
get in gear.

You get two politicians together and all you get is "my side or their
side stuff". They like to play politics and what is best for them, not
us.

We need to lubricate Congress, and the only way I know how to do just
that is vote the old heads out and bring in new blood. I am a believer
that "TWO" terms are enough for ANY politician. The majority of
politicians in the U.S. Congress are out of work lawyers who could not
make in and ran for a political office. The voters just keep voting with
blinders on.

We American tax payers know how to get the attention of the oil
companies.

Now back to shortwave.

nobody wrote:

In article ,
"Brenda Ann" wrote:

"nobody" wrote in message
...
In article , wrote:

Attention to "nobody": Success as you call it is not against the law,
but "financial intercourse" is.


Care to cite that law?


There are laws (federal and state) against price gouging. These laws were
used to prosecute some vendors in the short term after the 9/11 attacks,
when some stations were selling gasoline for $5 a gallon. They were also
used (and well I remember) during the Arab Oil Embargo in the 70's when gas
stations everywhere raised prices from 30 cents a gallon to in some cases
over $1 a gallon (our stations in Oregon averaged around 79 cents/gallon).
At that time, offenders were made to give out several millions of gallons of
free gasoline (if you weren't around back then, you would never believe the
lines... we could only buy gasoline on alternate days, and the lines were
often 3 to 4 blocks long waiting to get in (and the gas was being rationed,
as we later found, not by the govt., but by the oil companies.. those lines
were nothing compared to the days when the feds required the oil companies
to give away the free gasoline... )

Yeah, but how does that apply to Exxon-Mobil today. As other posters
have admitted, Exxon-Mobil prices are quite competitive.

That depends on where you are in the country.

nobody wrote:

In article ,
"Brenda Ann" wrote:

"nobody" wrote in message
...
In article , wrote:

Attention to "nobody": Success as you call it is not against the law,
but "financial intercourse" is.


Care to cite that law?


There are laws (federal and state) against price gouging. These laws were
used to prosecute some vendors in the short term after the 9/11 attacks,
when some stations were selling gasoline for $5 a gallon. They were also
used (and well I remember) during the Arab Oil Embargo in the 70's when gas
stations everywhere raised prices from 30 cents a gallon to in some cases
over $1 a gallon (our stations in Oregon averaged around 79 cents/gallon).
At that time, offenders were made to give out several millions of gallons of
free gasoline (if you weren't around back then, you would never believe the
lines... we could only buy gasoline on alternate days, and the lines were
often 3 to 4 blocks long waiting to get in (and the gas was being rationed,
as we later found, not by the govt., but by the oil companies.. those lines
were nothing compared to the days when the feds required the oil companies
to give away the free gasoline... )

Yeah, but how does that apply to Exxon-Mobil today. As other posters
have admitted, Exxon-Mobil prices are quite competitive.

That depends on where you are in the country.

Regular (87 octane) gasoline in PA is running 1.65, in WV it's 1.70, in
VA it's 150, in SC it's 1.45.

I recently drove through those states and bought gasoline.

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nobody wrote:

In article ,
"Brenda Ann" wrote:

"nobody" wrote in message
...
In article , wrote:

Attention to "nobody": Success as you call it is not against the law,
but "financial intercourse" is.


Care to cite that law?


There are laws (federal and state) against price gouging. These laws were
used to prosecute some vendors in the short term after the 9/11 attacks,
when some stations were selling gasoline for $5 a gallon. They were also
used (and well I remember) during the Arab Oil Embargo in the 70's when
gas
stations everywhere raised prices from 30 cents a gallon to in some cases
over $1 a gallon (our stations in Oregon averaged around 79
cents/gallon).
At that time, offenders were made to give out several millions of gallons
of
free gasoline (if you weren't around back then, you would never believe
the
lines... we could only buy gasoline on alternate days, and the lines were
often 3 to 4 blocks long waiting to get in (and the gas was being
rationed,
as we later found, not by the govt., but by the oil companies.. those
lines
were nothing compared to the days when the feds required the oil
companies
to give away the free gasoline... )

Yeah, but how does that apply to Exxon-Mobil today. As other posters
have admitted, Exxon-Mobil prices are quite competitive.

That depends on where you are in the country.

Nonsense.

In article , wrote:

nobody wrote:

In article ,
"Brenda Ann" wrote:

"nobody" wrote in message
...
In article , wrote:

Attention to "nobody": Success as you call it is not against the law,
but "financial intercourse" is.


Care to cite that law?


There are laws (federal and state) against price gouging. These laws were
used to prosecute some vendors in the short term after the 9/11 attacks,
when some stations were selling gasoline for $5 a gallon. They were also
used (and well I remember) during the Arab Oil Embargo in the 70's when
gas
stations everywhere raised prices from 30 cents a gallon to in some cases
over $1 a gallon (our stations in Oregon averaged around 79
cents/gallon).
At that time, offenders were made to give out several millions of gallons
of
free gasoline (if you weren't around back then, you would never believe
the
lines... we could only buy gasoline on alternate days, and the lines were
often 3 to 4 blocks long waiting to get in (and the gas was being
rationed,
as we later found, not by the govt., but by the oil companies.. those
lines
were nothing compared to the days when the feds required the oil
companies
to give away the free gasoline... )

Yeah, but how does that apply to Exxon-Mobil today. As other posters
have admitted, Exxon-Mobil prices are quite competitive.

That depends on where you are in the country.

Regular (87 octane) gasoline in PA is running 1.65, in WV it's 1.70, in
VA it's 150, in SC it's 1.45.

I recently drove through those states and bought gasoline.


Don't suppose it might have anything to do with state taxes on gasoline,
do you? Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeesh, what a maroon!

nobody wrote:

In article , wrote:

nobody wrote:

In article ,
"Brenda Ann" wrote:

"nobody" wrote in message
...
In article , wrote:

Attention to "nobody": Success as you call it is not against the law,
but "financial intercourse" is.


Care to cite that law?


There are laws (federal and state) against price gouging. These laws were
used to prosecute some vendors in the short term after the 9/11 attacks,
when some stations were selling gasoline for $5 a gallon. They were also
used (and well I remember) during the Arab Oil Embargo in the 70's when
gas
stations everywhere raised prices from 30 cents a gallon to in some cases
over $1 a gallon (our stations in Oregon averaged around 79
cents/gallon).
At that time, offenders were made to give out several millions of gallons
of
free gasoline (if you weren't around back then, you would never believe
the
lines... we could only buy gasoline on alternate days, and the lines were
often 3 to 4 blocks long waiting to get in (and the gas was being
rationed,
as we later found, not by the govt., but by the oil companies.. those
lines
were nothing compared to the days when the feds required the oil
companies
to give away the free gasoline... )

Yeah, but how does that apply to Exxon-Mobil today. As other posters
have admitted, Exxon-Mobil prices are quite competitive.

That depends on where you are in the country.

Nonsense.

The Mobil gas stations in my area always have the highest prices
compared to their competition in the same area.


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"longwave" wrote in message
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The Mobil gas stations in my area always have the highest prices
compared to their competition in the same area.



Then don't go there. Now see how easy that was?

CW wrote:

"longwave" wrote in message
...
The Mobil gas stations in my area always have the highest prices
compared to their competition in the same area.

Then don't go there. Now see how easy that was?

CW, one only has to examine the drop out figures from our public schools
to see that that is not so easy for some folks to figure out.

CW wrote:

"longwave" wrote in message
...
The Mobil gas stations in my area always have the highest prices
compared to their competition in the same area.

Then don't go there. Now see how easy that was?

Well of course I don't go there! I offered my comment as evidence, at
least in my area, that Mobil may be charging more than the fair market
price. I wasn't exaggerating when I said they ALWAYS have the highest
prices in the area. One of the employees at that Mobil station is the
son of the owner. He says Mobil is known for being one of the greediest
oil companies.


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I don't know of a business that won't charge as much as they can get.
They're greedier so they charge more doesn't get you anywhere when people
just go down the street to the next station. It doesn't matter who's buying.
If they're getting screwed, go somewhere else.


"longwave" wrote in message
...
CW wrote:

"longwave" wrote in message
...
The Mobil gas stations in my area always have the highest prices
compared to their competition in the same area.

Then don't go there. Now see how easy that was?

Well of course I don't go there! I offered my comment as evidence, at
least in my area, that Mobil may be charging more than the fair market
price. I wasn't exaggerating when I said they ALWAYS have the highest
prices in the area. One of the employees at that Mobil station is the
son of the owner. He says Mobil is known for being one of the greediest
oil companies.


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"longwave" wrote in message
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Well of course I don't go there! I offered my comment as evidence, at
least in my area, that Mobil may be charging more than the fair market
price. I wasn't exaggerating when I said they ALWAYS have the highest
prices in the area. One of the employees at that Mobil station is the
son of the owner. He says Mobil is known for being one of the greediest
oil companies.

I don't know about Mobil, haven't been to one in a great many years.. but do
they do similar to Chevron? Chevron's prices are uniformly higher than the
competion, but for a reason.. they are one of the very few chains that still
offers actual service (i.e. they check your oil, air, wash your windows,
etc.. stuff that all gas stations (used to be SERVICE STATIONS) used to do
as a matter of course). If Mobil does that, it's worth a few more pennies a
gallon (hell, it's worth a few more pennies a gallon to have the attendant
come to your car to get paid, instead of running a 50 yard dash to the
'convenience store' in the pouring rain to pay for your gas.. :)