Re: buying gasoline

["Rocky Entriken" <rocky@tri.net>]

Shell is very much still in business - bought out Texaco. My longtime Texaco 
card became a Shell card.

--Rocky Entriken

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randall" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 1:26 AM
Subject: RE: buying gasoline


> > Don't kid yourself Randall,
> > Valero buys huge amounts of oil from all over the globe.  They can 
> > compete
> > on price so well due to buying most of their crude on the spot market
> > instead of having long term contracts.
> Perhaps it's because I've been enjoying this nice Scotch ... but I don't 
> see how
> that would make it easy for them to compete against the people who own 
> wells,
> like Shell and BP/Amoco.
>
> Come to think of it, does Shell even sell retail gasoline any more ?  All 
> the
> Shell stations near my house have closed, probably because they refused to
> replace their leaky single-wall underground tanks.
>
> Randall