toddt's Blog

Before doing stupid things like this you should check on what company refines the oil. most of the gas/diesel from different stations comes from the same refineries, IE. shell will bled for Exxon etc.. The only people you'd hurt was the business owner.. as we'd be still using the same demand from the same refinery. Back home the refinery is a co-op, they supply the local esso(imperial), shell, petro can, independents.. If we took the demand away from one station the refinery would pick it up on other stations. Way to teach big cooperations :shrug:.. The only thing you can do to hurt them is lessen the amount you use!

what dks said is the sad reality and unfortunally there is nothing that we can do for make them lower the prices because we need the gas to go to work, take kids to school, appointments, you name it. I do believe if our public transportations is more reliable then i'll be the first one to use it even more I'm very excited about the train project. :) I believe that will hurt the oil companies because more people will use those resources and will use private transportation for certain ocassions in order to save the gasoline in their cars.

Look folks, it's time to get on board with where the problem is origin-ed.

Why in any sensible approach would you target the producer of a product in a market in which the demand is high. Your conditioned to blame the wrong culprit, that's why!

It's not just China and India driving the demand people.

This problem starts and end in politics. Notice I didn't say government, there should be a difference but sadly today, well-you know.

This is an issue that won't go away without hard work and sacrifice, but for who? The irony of it is, more people know that they're being fleeced but few find it convenient to act on it. Face it, we are lazy, and waiting around for a solution to come into our lives isn't the answer. We all are facing the facts daily whether your a lefty, or always right, the problem isn't discriminating.

Oil shale
The United States Office of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves estimates the world supply of oil shale at 1662 billion barrels (264 billion m³) of which 1200 billion barrels (191 billion m³) is in the United States.

If oil shale could be used to meet a quarter of the current 20 million barrels per day (3,200,000 m³/d) demand, 800 billion barrels (130,000,000,000 m³) of recoverable resources would last for more than 400 years.[3]

However, attempts to develop these reserves have been going on for over 100 years with limited success.
Wikipedia--

We need to use our resources, in the meantime we need to formulate ideas to conserve them instead of just throwing out blame, hate, and worst of all ignorance!

And while I'm at it,

Frustration is a dish BEST served with a HEALTHY dose of Hatred and Finger Pointing..And Scapegoat is ON the Menu...LMAO..

Specter .. right on ... very correct!

I do have a personal boycott anyways of Citgo,

Why? Answer:
Citgo is owned by a subsidiary of Hugo Chavez’s Petróleos de Venezuela. Apparently since Citgo does not drill for oil and gas domestically or abroad, it fails to fall under the bill’s definition of companies that will be losing the tax break.

However...The House passed legislation last week that repeals subsidies for five major oil and gas companies in order to offset $18.1 billion in renewable-energy tax breaks. However, Citgo Petroleum Corp. would continue to receive the 6% deduction for domestic manufacturing.

Does that make any sense at all? The five companies that this bill targeted -- Chevron, BP, ExxonMobil, Shell and ConocoPhillips — all produce and refine and sell in the United States. And because they are domestic, they are going to lose this tax deduction while Hugo Chavez gets to hang on to his. We are giving him money out of our tax payer dollars while limiting our own resources domestically.