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To: Rollcast... who wrote (17275)	10/4/2002 2:54:18 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

No matter whether that spawns another 9/11? What are a few more martyrs to the cause of cheap oil, anyway, right? Tom

To: Rollcast... who wrote (17275)	10/4/2002 5:26:09 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

rollcast... The idea of boycotting these stations hurts the families and small business that run these independent stations.. How about giving up the suv's,,, or down sizing the truck to a smaller engine... This would also cause an imbalance in supply and demand. for example..( years ago. been out of the business for quite sometime.) in the northeast part of the states Mobil exxon had perhaps up to 40% of the market in retail gasoline... Now if you stop buying gasoline from Mobil and run over to Sunoco they are going to run out of gasoline in a very short period..Guess who Sunoco would go to for replenishment ... Sunoco could not keep up the supply and distribution to those stations.. the pumps couldn't keep up with the accounts... Someone who thought they had a great idea didn't think it through.. Perhaps they had no idea about the distribution of crude and refineries throughout the world.. It is really a balanced system.. Another example is the shut down in the Gulf for the last two weeks or so... I assume many various oil companies came together to keep supply flowing around the area and the refineries etc. .. see ya