[N8 v2.0]

piss off oil companies and they will sell off and take their sh!t elsewhere... look for refineries to move off shore as well in the next 10 years... our Congress sucks total and complete ass..


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080612/bs_nm/exxon_dc_2;_ylt=AjMdIrHAaqfNfVUZMT5LUvcE1vAI

Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM.N) on Thursday said it is getting out of the retail gas business in the United States, citing the "very challenging" business conditions for its service stations."

Exxon, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said it will sell the roughly 2,220 service stations it still owns across the United States, including about 820 that it also operates.

 

[JewBagel]

Exxon sells off it's stations and somebody else buys them...so what? We trade one company for one or more others? It's not like removing this will have any effect on the supply of gas throughout the country, hell my city has at least 15 stations, removing two or three wouldn't change a thing.

 

[ohio]

Seriously. Honestly. Come on now. Are you afraid there won't be gas stations in two years because Exxon realized that retail is not their core competency?

Or maybe you're equating this move to Exxon ceasing to sell refined petroleom in the US?

I don't know why I keep asking this, but are you ****ing retarded?

 

[Changleen]

Two words: Mark up.

 

[X3pilot]

They're actually selling the stations to owners of the stations, in essence, selling the franchise to the operators. Will still be Exxon gas, just less overhead and hassle for them.

you don't really thing Exxon will quit refining gas do you?

 

[skinny mike]

an oil company deciding to stop doing business in the us is like a crack dealer moving to greenwich, ct. they are leaving their target markets behind.

 

[woodsguy]

Exxon/Mobil is evil.

 

[tunnelvision]

Exxon/Mobil is evil.

How so? care to elaborate?

 

[ire]

I think the bigger issue is moving the refineries off shore, will this reduce tax revenue for the govvy? Or do they operate tax free (ya know, all of the big oil subsidies) ?

 

[ATOMICFIREBALL]

All i know is gas is too expensive !

 

[ire]

All i know is gas is too expensive !

Yup, Congress controls world demand lthumbsdown:

 

[N8 v2.0]

Yup, Congress controls world demand lthumbsdown:

Congress is more than 66.6666666% to blame for the current price increase.

 

[Echo]

Unfortunately it appears atomicfireball has picked up an annoying habit of copying and pasting every stupid chain email that appears in his inbox.

 

[dante]

so he's like N8 but dumber...