please tell me when I can buy gas again. Pushing my pickup all over town is making my legs hurt.

Forge!!

Please thread:....Die...

OK... Yet.. I should have no problem buying oil from Exxon, or BP.. who's second major suplier is Saudi Arabia.
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Six years on from the atrocities of 9/11, in which 19 terrorists, 15 of them Saudi nationals, flew jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon – with the fourth plane crashing in a field – Saudi Arabia is still a major obstacle in the fight to crack down on terrorist financing.

Saudi Arabia, the Middle East's economic powerhouse and major US ally, only criminalised money laundering and terrorist financing in 2003, after the kingdom itself was the target of terrorist attacks.

It claims it is clamping down on terrorist financing, but just one major report has been carried out into how effectively the kingdom is implementing legislation. This was in 2004 by the OECD's Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global body overseeing anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing initiatives.

Recent information on the kingdom's efforts is almost non-existent, which the US State Department considers a problem as it "impedes the evaluation and design of enhancements to the judicial aspects of its anti-money laundering system".
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The Saudi Arabian Kingdom has a long history of funding international terror... Russia has been a major supplier to Iran of missile and nuclear technology. Iran is a well known exporter of terror. We buy oil from Russia...

Chavez? So far, he just has a big mouth. He is a self-righteous, impertinent little man, who actually spends more time making an ass out of himself then being a threat to anyone.

Something many of us are familiar with, having read a few posters that frequent these forums.

What, about Chavez scares you? What makes him more of a threat to our national security then the two above mentioned countries?

Not to mention.. You know those big factory looking things on the gulf coast? I think they call them refineries. They put the gasoline in those long tubular things. Ummm... pipelines if I remember. Then it gets distributed to holding fields all over the country. The different suppliers sell their oil on a U.S. dollar driven exchange. The only reason it is separated is because one oil company uses different additives then the other, or it is an entirely different hydrocarbon.. That oil was already bought and paid for, no matter where it comes from, before it even hit the tanker. Chavez has been paid. So the only one you are really hurting? Is the poor guy who owns the station you are boycotting, and his employees.

The only way to do damage to any one supplier, is to have an international embargo.

Personally, I have spent 20 bucks at the pumps over the last two and a half months. I drive a fuel efficient car, when I do drive. Mostly I walk, ride my bike, use public transport.

What did you spend? I betcha it is more then the 8 bucks a month I did. Yet, you so openly insult my ethics?

I had a teacher in grade school once tell me that to not think before you speak is much easier for most, then to not think before writing. The worse part of it.. is: To not think before writing reveals to all, your foolishness... for eternity. People will eventually forget what we speak.

Just a friendly suggestion....

I have a better idea.

Take the bus, ride a bike,
take light rail or another
form of transportation other
than a car whenever you can.

Take less trips to the store
by car or walk if it's close.

If you need to buy gas,
buy from a local distributor,
not a big corporate conglomerate.

If everyone did at least one
of these things, I think
there would be real change.

I would participate, but I'm getting my car fixed tomorrow, and I'll need to buy gas.

would love to buy from the small guy, but i'd waste too much gas trying to find one!

Gas boycotts never work, too many people have places they have to go. If you really want to stick it to the oil companys there are two really great traditions, car pooling and public transportation;^]

There ya go.

It really doesn't
matter what you do,
just so it takes
away money from
the corporations.

the only way a gas boycot would work is t target certain brands

say don't buy citgo till they lower their price

then when they lower their price

don't buy bp (which is selling out by the way)

when citgo and bp lower their price

do not buy from mobile

now citgo is raising their price again

and till they realize it it will be a constant circle

and so on and so forth

that way everyone cna still do what needs to be done

and a lower price will eventually come

but hey what do i know

I draw the line at checking the gas prices on-line and going to the cheapest station! and I stay home alot!

I still say car pooling is the most efficiant way of saving gas. Imagine, if you only car pool with two other people, take the amount of gas you use from point a to point b and divide it by three, that's how much gas you'll save. Pretty big savings if you ask me;^]

only if they help pay

so i guess ya keep track of the mileage on the way there

and figure the gas usage double it then multiple it time 2 divide

it by 3 and say pay up if ya want a ride back

so lets see

that would be
miles/mpg x gas price x 2 / 3 = amount owed per person




and that does not include wear and tear on the car

so maybe you should make them split your portion of the gas

for having the car and insurance

but hey what do i know

Drivin Miz Daisy, some times is just crazy
Stop drivin Miz Daisy today!
Next time you take a car
make sure its really far
and pick up some friends
on the wayyyyyy.....

The whole idea is you use your gas one day, the next persons the next, the next and so on. So if you all three drive alone that's three times as much gas as well as three times the wear & tear on your car, hence a simple division of three. Car pools work and always have, alot more efficiant than asking people not to do the things they have to do;^]

i under stand that but speaking economics it would be cheapest if the guy furthest away drove and picked the others up

i guess he could just park there on his off days

but i was spaeeking more about not every day mondain driving
when i did the math thing