Shell

So, I was informed in person that people were curious about my comments about how I go about avoiding Shell. Well, it's simple. It's something I care about and something I pay attention to, and that's really all you have to do.

Since you were curious I'm going to assume that you care about this issue, next, you have to pay attention. I buy from Shell as little as possible, because to be honest, I just don't like them. mostly due to them price gouging.

So first, read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell
yeah, it's wiki, deal with it. it's good information on Shell as a whole.

reading this, you need to pay attention to every line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Oil_Company#Subsidiaries
"Aera Energy LLC is a joint venture with Mobil Oil operating in California." is at the bottom of the page, Mobil, a part of the famous Exxon-Mobil, is partnered with Shell, well gee, there's two of the biggest oil companies working together. Still not a monopoly....Though the page even has a section about Shabazi, small world eh?

If you wanna know who owns what, a google search along the lines of "*station name* owned by" usually comes up with answers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajor
here, you'll find a listing of the "supermajor" oil corporations. Curiously enough, the number matches up to the number of media corporations.

Shell doesn't explicitly own Texaco, but has something like a 56% investment in it, which IMO, is close enough.

if you go through all the links, you'll probably be depressed in finding that most of the "supermajor" oil companies own half of each other and are all working together.

oh well, we've still got our anti-trust laws right?


....right?