BOYCOTT EXXON!!! NO EXEMPTIONS TO SANCTIONS FOR EXXON!

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13. You will hurt individual station owners with a boycott, and companies that manufacture its additives

but you will not hurt ExxonMobil. First, much of its profits are derived overseas. Second, it sells refined products to many other outlets.

If the demand for gasoline products is X, people boycotting move away from Exxon or Mobil stations but the demand remains X, and people will purchase gasoline at other stations. Those other stations will get their product from ExxonMobil refining and supply. The only thing special about Exxon gasoline is their special blend of additives, which are not manufactured by ExxonMobil, but are purchased from a third party and distributed at the loading rack.

So, gasoline refined by ExxonMobil goes to a loading rack where additive is blended for ExxonMobil or Shell or BP, or Jim's Off-Brand Service Station etc. Since no one is building new refineries, those other companies will simply use ExxonMobil refined products. Demand is still X and off-brand gas stations still use ExxonMobil products.