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To: StanX Long who wrote (67778)	2/12/2003 10:08:06 PM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Hmmm interesting thought. Anybody checked out the numbers and data to see if it is true? I already buy my one tankfull a month at Citgo. When it is gone, then I walk or bike.

To: StanX Long who wrote (67778)	2/13/2003 8:39:37 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 70976

Stan, I am all with you. Boycotting the big oil is one way telling them how to behave. They are American companies only in name. I think it was Ben Franklin who said "A Merchant has no country". It is a sentiment with which I fully agree. Last night 60 Minutes II talked about how RJR is a trading partner with Saddam's son, Udai. There are two law suites going on which claim in less than 2 years RJR sold more than 80 Billion cigarettes to Iraq. The bottom line is that (IMO) the big corporations get involved in all kinds of dirty deeds then use the ill gotten proceeds to buy favors in Washington, who in turn uses the people's money and lives to keep corrupt governments in power who make more money for the big business who pays off more politicians in Washington who... Sun (what I wouldn't do to Abe or Ben in office again) Tzu Edit: Food for thought, "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." -- Albert Einstein