To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (27809 ) 10/13/2000 1:53:14 PM From: Ken98 Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 436258 Well, they've got little BillieR on the wire trying to talk heating oil down: <<WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said on Friday that several major U.S. oil companies have agreed not to export heating oil under current market conditions. The firms are Amerada Hess (NYSE:AHC - news) as well as Equiva Trading and Motiva Enterprises, which are both joint ventures of Royal Dutch/Shell Group's (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: SHEL.L) U.S. unit Shell Oil, Texaco Inc (NYSE:TX - news). and Saudi Aramco. They voluntarily agreed to keep heating oil in the U.S. market for domestic consumption as supplies are tight heading into the winter, Richardson said. ``The four companies have volunteered, agreed not to export heating oil,'' Richardson told reporters after hosting a solar energy event at DOE headquarters.>> EARTH TO BILLIE - that's about 4.5M barrels of the 30M you just gave away! Try again numbnut - your dept. has already announced that they expect at least 15M barrels to go overseas from the "Owl Gore Election Memorial Oil Giveaway". <<The bidders, which included oil companies, middlemen and brokers, were: Marathon Ashland Petroleum, Houston, 3.9 million barrels; Euell Energy, Aurora, Colo., 3 million barrels; BP Oil Supply Co., Warrenville, Ill., 6 million barrels; Elf Trading Inc., Houston, 1 million barrels; Equiva Trading Co., Houston, 2.5 million barrels; Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, New York, 2 million barrels; Vitol S.A. Inc., Houston, 1.6 million barrels; Valero Marketing and Supply Co., San Antonio, 1 million barrels; Burhany Energy Enterprises Inc., Tallahassee, Fla., 3 million barrels; Lance Stroud Enterprises Inc., New York, 4 million barrels; and Hess Energy Inc., New York, 2 million barrels.>>