Who Uses What Crude? True?

[toocrazy2yoo]

This was part of one of those chain emails, political as can be, the political parts of which are gone. They preach in said email to not use the gasoline from the stations that import MidEast oil. But fact is, if EVERYONE bought only from those that only use domestic crude, THOSE dealers of gasoline would run out tomorrow. So what's the point? Meanwhile, anyone know if these are correct?

These companies import Middle Eastern oil:

Shell.......................... < B> 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

Citgo Gas comes from South America - Venezuela, from a Dictator who hates Americans - Hugo Chavez.

Do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (Oil is now $90-$95 a barrel)

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

Also: Pilot, Flying J, Love's, RaceTrac, Valero

 

[cosynthetics]

Snopes had a thing about the email and said most was hard to substantiate.

 

[Johnny]

Well let me shoot it down.

First mistake, BP/Phillips have nothing to do with each other. Most gasoline is on an exchange basis anyway. Example, the Phillips stations up here get their gasoline from the Mobil and Citgo terminals. Shell up here gets it's gas from the Amoco terminals. All those companies listed with 0 use imported crude. All of the also's at the bottom buy from the cheapest bidder on the open market.

My wife and sister sent me this same email and I told both of them B S.

 

[JHZR2]

does not really matter... all the stations in one area pull their product from one or two refineries. Even if you buy from ARCO, you might still be getting an Amoco or Citgo product, and just because youre buying from Exxon does not mean that youre not getting some NA-derived product that, say, Sinclar made.

Its a commodity market, and so everything goes into and leaves wthout mark of source.

The funny thing is that once someplace like the ME runs dry, theyll likely become our next charity case...

JMH

 

[Steve S]

Hugo may not like us .Do you think the Arabs are any better?

 

[The_Jeff]

The only effect one would have would be sullying the brand license. So the independent operator of that station would license a different name or none at all.