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
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