Exxon Dethrones Wal-Mart?
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They are both opportunistic leeches?
16069
Think about K-Mart and the companies they helped in ruining like Fleming Foods. This distroyed many lives!!!
736340
I wonder same thing.\nI thought they hate wal mart?\nFLIP FLOP!
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Simply - BOYCOTT! \n\nI refuse to shop at Walmart. I wont buy gas from any of the Major Oil Companies. Unfortunately, we all need phone service, and in the 80's the feds broke up the phone company monopoloy - but it has rebuilt itself! So, boycott the govt, and dont elect greedy republicans to any position! If no one shopped at Walmart, they wouldnt be making money...
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All of the reserves are full, and this administration will not release them. Exxon Mobil reported 340 Billion in profits for 2005 with all the hurricane damage. What is store for 2006?
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walmart finds the cheapest products from anybody but american workers and finds the dirtiest lowest paid child workers to make thier products !!!\nthey are the worst company in the world yet everybody shops there!!!
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:}\nif this address materialism in general\nThen I think all companies that use Christianity soly for economic reasons are wrong, that would include walmart.\n\nIf you think walmart is the only company that would use Christianity to economic advantage I think you are wrong\n\nand no I do not believe that Walmart will control all buying or even a significant portion of it.
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Not really.  If everyone stopped buying from Exxon and used the other providers, then the other providers would run out of gas pretty quickly due to supply and demand chain effects.  What would happen is that they would buy their gas from Exxon and overall all prices would go up, not down.\n\nFull mythbuster at Snopes.\n\nhttp://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp
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The bastards are messing with us!  They are simply raising the prices to fatten up their wallets.  Their profits have raised by 30% and they keep changing the reasons for prices going up.  We never get a straight answer.  First its "a pipe broke and needs to be repaired so oil has gone up", then its "everyones using too much gas in their suvs", then its "we're negotiating to lower prices", um, excuse me but doesnt Bush OWN a refinery?
630101
You can use an Exxon product called Varsol or gas
1176524
Yes, it was Wal-Mart. There are hieroglyphics in the Pyramids of Giza that have been decoded. They read, " K-Mart Sucks ".
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as far fetched as this sounds, he has become another "Wal-Mart" exclusive.  Ken Richardson, entertainment editor for Sound & Vision magazine. "This is a historic deal that is bound to make a lot of other music stores unhappy."
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Not sure about lawsuites but do believe that Walmart has contributed to the lack of quality products in our country today.  Their pressure on Manufacturers to lower pricing has helped to lower the costs of products available but has also lowered the quality of such products.  Cheaper, less effective, toxic ingredients are now found in many cleaning and personal care items on the shelves.  People's quest to get something for nothing has allowed them to "bully" big corporations into conforming to survive.\n\nI am not able to give you statistics... but do remember reading something in regards to Walmarts unlawful hiring and labor disputes.  I believe Target would be the better of the two... just not sure where the actual statistics are.\n\nGood luck with your debate... at least you are on the proper side of the issue.
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The gas prices can be helped if the pricks at exxon and all the other fuel manufacture's would lower the price.  They only reported a 50% increase in profit last year.  Yea I say they could do something about it!!!1
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I wish they did - they just trash everything -I never really see any fast food bussinesses recycle -some grocery stores recycle their cardboard boxes and I know Wal-mart is avid about recycling - I've been saying for years that it should be a LAW for everyone to recycle its not that difficult to do if we just organized it to fit our lifestyles -I believe someday we may not have a choice but to recycle and if we wait til then it could almost be too late. So everyone should do their part RECYCLE!!!!
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Mtn Biker, you conveniently left out that Exxon had sales of 330B last year.  Figure 90M into that and it would have almost zero affect (maybe 1/10th of a cent) on gas prices.\n\nI don't really care if you want to put the blame on Bush.  It's the fad these days anyway.  Others have pointed out the supply/demand nature of crude oil, which sets gas prices.  You might argue he could indirectly affect gas prices, but he doesn't affect them directly.  It can be argued both ways, so read up and make your own opinion.\n\nI'd like to point out that an Exxon boycott would do just about nothing because Exxon would end up selling their gas to the other suppliers that weren't being boycotted.  A selective boycott shifts the demand, not decreases it, which is what is needed to lower prices.\n\nThe mythbuster on that urban legend is here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp
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Greed at it worst. I received an email last week asking that you do not buy Exxon/Mobil gas, saying that you can't ask people not to drive but if you boycott the biggest oil co out there that their prices will have to come down and the the other companies' will have to follow suit. if enough people were to do this it would work. The email also suggested you don't buy Exxon/Mobil until the price gets down to $1.30 gal