So patriotic it will make you cry
Group Plans ‘Terror Free’ Gas Station in Omaha – FoxNews.com: Terror Free Oil, what’s next? A fat free Krispy Kreme doughnut? That would be too much.
The Florida-based group claims U.S. dollars used to purchase gas made from Middle East oil funds terrorism. It urges Americans to only buy oil products that originate from countries that do not support terrorism.
The Terror-Free Oil station in west Omaha will sell gas from oil companies that do not do business in the Middle East. Signs calling for the use of non-Middle Eastern oil were up at the station today.
Is it the idea of the “Terror-Free” oil that bothers you enough to include this story here, or the fact that Fox News is reporting it, therefore it must be ridiculous.
The selective oil purchasing idea is one that has merit and is the kind of story I would expect to see here on Dvorak.org.
The decision however to make it all seem like a big joke because of the source deemphasizes the idea and includes Dvorak.org in that bastion of media outlets that intends to deconstruct any story that has a link to a conservative position or source.
I have a lot of problems with FoxNews and it’s conservative stance in the media. I just didn’t want Dvorak.org to get into this arena too.
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The selective oil purchasing idea is one that has merit and is the kind of story I would expect to see here on Dvorak.org.
Since the US engages in terrorists acts, will you continue to support gas stations that use American oil?
The whole idea is bull, unworkable, and just plain silly. Fox’s reporting this as serious news just shows the level of idiocy Fox will stoop to for their knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, dinosaur cohabitant viewers.
I guess these guys haven’t heard of the idea that oil is a global market. There just moving supplies around slightly.
Dogbert said it best.
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#1, Riiiiight, I don’t know if you noticed, but anyone can be a target on this site. You haven’t gotten that idea yet from reading this blog? 😉
So, by your reasoning since some people in Spain support ETA, a terrorist organisation, then you wouldn’t buy any products made in Spain…
Since there are people in Ireland that support the IRA then companies like Dell shouldn’t have a call centre in that country…
Since some people in the U.S. support neo-nazis organisation they I shouldn’t buy products from the U.S.? Boycott McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, Nike, etc?
MikeN makes a useful point. The average tanker load of oil is sold and resold about five times before it reaches final harbor. Don’t know about nowadays; but, whan I worked in the industry, the biggest buyer and seller of oil on the high seas was Japanese. The Zaibatsu don’t mind bragging about who they buy and sell.
Of course, that doesn’t make our homegrown Oil Patch Boys any less sleazy or diminish their control over the corrupt crew in DC.
What MikeN and moss said.
It’s next to impossible to trace back every gallon of oil that is sold, to its point of origin.
I remember hearing rumours about Oil being sold in the middle of the sea. This all sounds very dangerous to do while at sea. Can you elaborate about why the source is so difficult to determine?
I will introduce a strange Idea and comment…
ALOT of the oil in the USA comes from S. America.
another source comes from Texas and california.
and over 50% of oir oil comes from ????
CANADA.
OPEC..tries to maintain a price point on oil…can you GUESS how much?
Before the commodities and selling and buying Start, the price of OPEC oil is $23-25 per BARREL…
So figure it out…WHO is macking the money??
PS. This is the same as electricity in the USA. It starts at a resonable price, and then is sold, back and forth, until no one can afford it, and the price has gone UP 2x-3x…
Electric corps DONT make very much electricty…THEY BUY IT form other scources. They just do the paper work, and Keep those BIG posts up…
7, 8 – Is it because crude moves around so much? I imagine the source of crude oil would be easy to determine, since each field or area is different from the next. Hence use of labels like “sweet” and “acidic” etc. It’s why Venezuelan and Mexican oils are less profitable, barrel for barrel, than Saudi oil.
I imagine the real problem comes from shifting the stock around from port to port. As I recall, Dubya’s daddy (before he was Prez) got in trouble during the early 1970s oil crisis because he started moving crude from port to port in the U.S., raising the price at each stop. It was an opportunistic loophole of the sort the whole corrupt Bush family is known to engineer and ride for all its worth. And that was probably just a beta version of the kind of slippery accounting and oil asset shell games now in play.
But I admit that’s all speculation. Maybe agent Frank IBC will elucidate.
11 – That’s what arbitrage is all about. You cite Venezuela selling oil to Cuba, which hikes the price a bit and resells elsewhere, never actually seeing the oil. I’ll cite U.S. companies selling raw timber at pennies a tree to Japanese factory ships, which process, pollute offshore, and resell as finished lumber in the U.S. (That was going on in the U.S. some time ago – don’t know if anyone has put a stop to it. Might depend on who the international companies involved sent money to in the last election.)
In both cases, the people of the original country are hurt, as the oil (or maybe just the paperwork) goes from one destination to another, hiking the price at every step. See why I brought up Daddy Bush hopping crude oil from port to port during the oil crisis? It’s the same game, just more sophisticated con men running it.
The way it’s run, I don’t see why Venezuelan or Iranian oil could look on the final paperwork as if it were coming in from the North Sea oil fields. Arbitrage on the open sea, traditional venue of pirates. Except I think they had a different name for it when the richest people of the day (such as the Queen of England) sent them out on commission to do it. Bottom line, it’s still theft. As usual, regular working people pay the price.
How is this a Fox News story when the story is from the AP wire?
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Fox News is no more or less a problem than the numerous liberal media outlets.
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How is this a Fox News story when the story is from the AP wire?
What “Liberal Media outlets are you referring to. The ones with actual reporters that go out into the field to get a story versus the one that has a bunch of talking heads telling us what the news is? Something like this will not show up in other media simply because it is so easy to see it is intended just to provoke and feed bigotry.
#18 You are either extremely ignorant, extremely bias or both. Even the media admits to their liberal bias. Need I remind you of memo-gate or Cronkite’s statements regarding the Tet Offensive which cost the U.S. the Vietnam War.