Union of Concerned Scientists

It's Time to Talk REAL Oil Savings

Oil companies are trying to sell the idea that their record-breaking earnings benefit the millions of Americans who own stock in oil companies—so go ahead—fill up your gas tank and help out your fellow citizen's retirement portfolio. But this rhetoric begs the question: Does your oil use benefit you?

Help us tell the real story behind oil savings and oil solutions.

While we don't have the same marketing budgets as oil companies, we do have dedicated supporters like you who think it's time to spend less at the pump and invest in solutions that will protect consumers, the climate, and our environment from the growing costs of our oil use.

Help us start a REAL conversation on oil spending and oil solutions: check out our new Where Your Gas Money Goes report and share it with your friends, family, and colleagues.

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In the "Where your Gas Money Goes" report, UCS calculated how much money an average consumer spends on gas, where that money really goes, and what that consumer can expect in return on their oil stocks: http://www.ucsusa.org/gasmoney. Our analysis shows that the 'average' ExxonMobil shareholder gets far less than a penny back from their annual gas expenditures.  Even ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who owns 1.7 million shares of company stock, would get only 34 cents back from a full year of purchasing gas only from his own company stations.

The good news is that whether you are an average driver or an oil company CEO, reducing your own oil use is always a smart fiscal strategy. The Union of Concerned Scientists is trying to start a REAL conversation on oil spending and oil solutions.

While they don’t have the oil companies’ budgets, they do have people like us to help spread the word one tweet or Facebook post at a time.

Click here to spread the word: http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_vehicles/what_you_can_do/gas-money.html.

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