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Buy Gas From Sunoco and Shell

Posted in Uncategorized by Alan Keister on March 24, 2008

An email about improving gas mileage has been making the rounds. It made me question where my gas comes from. I want to avoid sending my money to the Middle East. It turns out it is possible with a little care.

The DOE has some helpful data. Only 17% of U.S. oil imports come from the Persian Gulf. 50% comes from the Western Hemisphere. They just published data from 2007 that shows how much oil each company imported from the Middle East in a report called “Crude Oil Imports From Persian Gulf 2007“.

The bottom line here is that I will do my best to buy gas only from Shell and Sunoco who import very little to no oil from the Middle East. Exxon Mobile imported a huge amount of oil from the Middle East and will be avoided.

Update:  it looks like Citgo is one of the good companies as well.

links for 2008-03-22

Posted in links by Alan Keister on March 21, 2008