[Peace-discuss] Fwd: I want to stop supporting terrorism

[Jay Mittenthal]

>From: DownhomeP at aol.com
>Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:16:33 EDT
>Subject: I want to stop supporting terrorism
>To: DownhomeP at aol.com
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>  Shall we stop supporting terrorism?
>
>  Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into
>  the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy from gas companies that don't
>  import their oil from the Saudis. Nothing is more frustrating than the
>  feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to
>  people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends. I thought
>  it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best
>  to buy gas from.
>
>  Major companies that import Middle Eastern oil (for the period 9/1/00
>  -8/31/01).
>
>  Shell................ 205,742,000 barrels Chevron/Texaco.......
>  144,332,000 barrels Exxon /Mobil......... 130,082,000 barrels
>  Marathon............. 117,740,000 barrels Amoco................
>  62,231,000 barrels If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports
>  amount to over $18 BILLION!
>
>  Here are some large companies that do not import Middle Eastern oil:
>
>  Citgo 0 barrels Sunoco 0 barrels Conoco 0 barrels Sinclair 0 barrels
>  BP/Phillips 0 barrels Hess 0 barrels All of this information is
>  available from the Department of Energy and can be easily documented.
>  Refineries located in the U.S. are required to state where they get
>  their oil and how much they are importing. They report on a monthly basis.
>
>  Keep this list in your car; share it with friends. Stop paying for
>  terrorism.
>
>  But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of gas buyers.
>  I'm sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to
>  at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least
>  ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) .. and so on, by the time the message
>  reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE
>  MILLION consumers!
>
>  If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each,
>  then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level
>  further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!! .
>
>  Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people.
>
>  How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten
>  more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could
>  conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!