Friggin oil at 117.00!

[Vtr_Racing]

Stranglehold. Ted Nugent sang it! Ok fellow Americans. A Boston Tea Party is WAAAAY overdue.

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[partybarge_pilot]

I thought Jello Barfia said it best, "We need that oil!"

[Roscoes Rescue Rangers]

Get rid of all the tree huggers and the enviormentals!! and we can drill here at home, very simple solution to the problem.

[SunsetCliffsMocos]

I'd rather see new, more efficient refineries be built in Southern California, that's a big factor. Fuel is taxed so heavily, oil profits a WAY too high and those F*****s sitting on the oil are laughing all the way to the bank. This is CRIMINAL!!!

[TauMau]

The fat assholes who are making all the money are the ones in the middle east who pull the oil out of the ground...some of the refineries are actually losing money right now...I personally have stopped using gas stations that import their oil:

These 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 will stick with domestically supported companies:

Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:

Sunoco..................0 barrels

Conoco..................0 barrels

Sinclair.................0 barrels

B P/Phillips............0 barrels

Hess.......................0 barrels

ARC0....................0 barrels

[pjc]

Stranglehold. Ted Nugent sang it! Ok fellow Americans. A Boston Tea Party is WAAAAY overdue.

Marc, we are doing this to ourselves.

The prime motivators to the high price is the very weak dollar, rampant commodities speculation and lack of production on our own continent. Remember the votes against ANWR.

What a ****ing mistake that was.

[pjc]

Sinclair.................0 barrels

B P/Phillips............0 barrels

Hess.......................0 barrels

ARC0....................0 barrels

Thanks for the 411 on that. I will stick to my local Sinclair dealers.

[Desert_Roller]

I've been loyal 76 user since I started driving. Nice to see them (conoco) on the zero import list.

Exxon crashed the Valdez and took way to long cleaning it up, so I don't buy their gas.

Arco - I would not put that crap in my gardener's lawnmower!

1 of the TT teams I work with has contract pricing for race fuel - at a lower price then we pay for 87 octane!

[DSRTXJ]

is costco fuel imported from the middle east??

[TauMau]

I've heard Costco gets their gas from BP. Also, there are a couple mistakes in the data I posted:

Conoco owns Phillips
BP owns Arco and Amoco

So I'm not sure if the BP companies are using imported crude oil or not.

I've been reading more about the numbers posted here, and it looks like many people would disagree with them, saying that most oil refineries use a combination of imported and domestic oils. I'll have to ask my dad who's a supervisor at a Conoco Phillips refinery.

Something else I found interesting is that we import the most of our crude oil from Canada:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/p...nt/import.html