Walmart et. al. Taking advantage of you.

Unaffected by President Trump's tariffs, Walmart is taking advantage of the general public's ignorance of tariffs.

Understanding Tariffs: Tariffs are used to restrict imports. Simply put, they increase the price of goods and services purchased from another country, making them less attractive to domestic consumers.  A key point to understand is that a tariff affects the exporting country because consumers in the country that imposed the tariff might shy away from imports due to the price increase. However, if the consumer still chooses the imported product, then the tariff has essentially raised the cost to the consumer in another country.

As a regular customer of Walmart's gas stations (including their Murphy Oil franchises) I noticed an increase price at the pump even before Trump's imposed tariff.  Knowing that Walmart does not import gasoline from abroad (see above), I asked myself, "Why?"  The only plausible answer is, "More profits!"  That's right!  Take advantage of the confused public while we keep our stockholders happy.  ~ N.E. Hooben

I'm certain that other companies are using the same logic to increase their bottom line, so you can bet your bottom dollar you're not getting away cheap. ~ N.E.H.

Where does Walmart get their gas?

By GB Times / April 16, 2024

Where Does Walmart Get Their Gas?

As one of the largest retailers in the world, Walmart is a household name synonymous with affordable prices and convenience. When it comes to fueling up your vehicle, Walmart’s gas stations are a popular choice for many. But have you ever wondered where Walmart gets their gas?

In this article, we’ll delve into the answers to this question and explore the complex logistics behind Walmart’s gas supply chain. Walmart’s gas stations are operated by Walmart Fuel Stations, a subsidiary of Walmart Inc. With over 13,000 gas stations across the United States, Walmart is one of the largest fuel retailers in the country.

Direct Answer: Where Does Walmart Get Their Gas?

Walmart gets its gas from a variety of sources, including:

• Refineries: Walmart purchases refined gasoline from various refineries across the United States.
• Terminals: Walmart also sources gas from various terminals, which are storage facilities that hold large quantities of fuel.
• Distribution Centers: Walmart’s distribution centers act as hubs for fuel transportation and storage.
• Wholesale Markets: Walmart buys gas from wholesale markets, where it is sold to retailers and distributors.

How Does Walmart Source Its Gas?

Walmart’s gas sourcing process involves several steps:

Step 1: Supply Chain Management

Walmart’s supply chain management team identifies potential suppliers and negotiates prices and terms for gas purchases. They work closely with refineries, terminals, and distribution centers to ensure a stable supply of fuel.

Step 2: Refinery Selection

Walmart selects refineries based on factors such as:

• Location: Proximity to major transportation routes and distribution centers
• Capacity: Ability to meet Walmart’s demand for fuel
• Supply Chain Reliability: Reputation for reliable delivery and quality
• Price: Competitive pricing for refined gasoline

Step 3: Terminal Selection

Walmart also selects terminals based on factors such as:

• Capacity: Ability to store and handle large volumes of fuel
• Location: Proximity to major transportation routes and distribution centers
• Supply Chain Reliability: Reputation for reliable delivery and quality
• Price: Competitive pricing for fuel storage and transportation

Step 4: Fuel Transportation

Walmart uses a combination of trucking and pipelines to transport fuel from refineries and terminals to its distribution centers. Truckloads are used for smaller volumes of fuel, while pipelines are used for larger volumes.

Step 5: Distribution Centers

Walmart’s distribution centers act as hubs for fuel transportation and storage. They are equipped with fuel storage tanks, pumps, and loading equipment to facilitate the transfer of fuel to trucks and other vehicles.

Walmart’s Gas Station Network

Walmart’s gas station network is divided into three main categories:

• Company-owned stations: Owned and operated by Walmart
• Franchise stations: Operated by independent franchisees
• Convenience stores with fuel: Convenience stores with fuel pumps, but not operated by Walmart

Key Statistics:

• 13,000+ Gas Stations: Walmart operates over 13,000 gas stations across the United States.
• $30 Billion in Annual Sales: Walmart’s gas stations generate over $30 billion in annual sales.
• 1.5% Share of US Gas Market: Walmart’s gas stations account for approximately 1.5% of the US gas market.

Conclusion

Walmart’s gas supply chain is a complex network of refineries, terminals, distribution centers, and retail stations. By sourcing gas from a variety of suppliers and using a combination of trucking and pipelines for transportation, Walmart is able to maintain a stable supply of fuel to its stations. As one of the largest fuel retailers in the country, Walmart’s gas stations are an integral part of its retail operations. Walmart’s commitment to competitive pricing and convenient locations has made it a popular choice for fuel-conscious consumers.

Wake up world headlines: THE COMMUNISTS ARE WINNING

 

Why would Nancy Pelosi be opposed to Trump’s China tariffs?

Watch: Nancy Pelosi in 1996 Assails U.S. Free Trade with China: ‘Is This Reciprocal?’

In 1996, on the House floor,
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) assailed a
then-bipartisan plan to give Most
Favored Nation (MFN) trade status
to China, arguing that while the U.S.
has low tariffs on China-made goods,
China has high tariffs on
American goods.

While debating opening U.S. free trade with China by giving the communist country MFN status, Pelosi made clear she opposed the plan, noting the growing trade deficit and how it was leading to economic devastation for Americans.

“All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must either be delegated or assumed. There are no other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation.”

Not Just Bad Policy: The Founders Called it Treason and War
By: Michael Boldin|Published on: Apr 2, 2025|Categories: Founding Principles


Treason. Invasion. Conquest.

That’s how the Founders and old revolutionaries described usurpation – power stolen, not delegated.

And it wasn’t just rhetoric. It was a foundational, and now-forgotten principle at the very heart of the American Revolution.

When government repeatedly goes beyond the limits of the Constitution, it’s not just an innocent mistake – it’s a kind of war waged against the sovereignty, or final authority, of the people.

MORE THAN JUST “BAD POLICY”

To the Founders, this wasn’t theory – it was a warning. Few, if any, put that warning into sharper words than St. George Tucker, a patriot of the Revolutionary War and one of the most important 

George Tucker

constitutional scholars of the early republic.
“If in a limited government the public functionaries exceed the limits which the constitution prescribes to their powers, every such act is an act of usurpation in the government, and, as such, treason against the sovereignty of the people, which is thus endeavored to be subverted, and transferred to the usurpers.”

Tucker called it treason. Thomas Paine explained the foundation of it – where all power comes from.

“All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must either be delegated or assumed. There are no other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation.”

Paine and Tucker weren’t inventing something new. These were long-established principles, recognized for generations. Over a century earlier, Algernon Sidney laid the same foundation:

“The making of laws, coronation, inauguration, and all that belongs to the chusing and making of kings, or other magistrates, is merely from the people; and that all power exercised over them, which is not so, is usurpation and tyranny.”

John Locke took that idea a step further – defining usurpation as the theft of power that rightfully belongs to someone else:

“Usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a right to.”

A WAR AGAINST USURPATION

The American revolutionaries fought a long, bloody war to free themselves from the evils of usurpation.

People often say the Declaration of Independence listed grievances. But that word isn’t even in the text. Instead, the Declaration complained of “a long train of abuses and usurpations” and “a history of repeated injuries and usurpations.”

The American revolutionaries weren’t just airing policy disagreements. In the Declaration of Independence, they told the world that power had been seized – stolen – and turned against them.

And they didn’t stop at lofty ideals. The Revolution gave birth to something entirely new: written constitutions that put those principles into binding law. As Tucker explained:

“The American revolution seems to have given birth to this new political phenomenon: in every state a written constitution was framed, and adopted by the people, both in their individual and sovereign capacity, and character.”

This affirmed a core truth: the people hold sovereignty – they are the source of all power – and government is merely their agent, not their master.

“By this means, the just distinction between the sovereignty, and the government, was rendered familiar to every intelligent mind; the former was found to reside in the people, and to be unalienable from them; the latter in their servants and agents.”

John Jay, the first Chief Justice, emphasized that this principle was built into the Constitution itself: it only outlined the specific business the people chose to delegate to their agents:

“The Constitution only serves to point out that part of the people’s business, which they think proper by it to refer to the management of the persons therein designated”

And he made it clear that these people were never meant to rule, but only to serve:

“those persons are to receive that business to manage, not for themselves, and as their own, but as agents and overseers for the people to whom they are constantly responsible, and by whom only they are to be appointed.”

WAR ON THE PEOPLE

The Founders didn’t just see usurpation as a legal issue. They saw it as something far more dangerous – not merely a theft of power, but a form of war against the people themselves.

Benjamin Franklin vividly described this during the Philadelphia Convention.

“As all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the Governing & Governed.”

At the height of the Revolution, Samuel Adams recognized the same truth – attacks on liberty are INVASIONS – an act of war:

“The people hold the Invasion of their Rights & Liberties the most horrid rebellion and a Neglect to defend them against any Power whatsoever the highest Treason.”

A century before that, Algernon Sidney called those who usurp power the greatest enemies a people can face.

“If he be justly accounted an enemy to all, who injures all; he above all must be the publick enemy of a nation, who by usurping a power over them, does the greatest and most publick injury that a people can suffer.”

Locke took it further. Usurpation, he said, isn’t just theft – it’s a form of domestic conquest.

“As conquest may be called a foreign usurpation, so usurpation is a kind of domestic conquest.”

And conquest, by its very nature, is war.

“Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people.”

Thomas Gordon didn’t hold back – he described lawless power as one of the most monstrous evils a people can face:

“There is something so wanton and monstrous in lawless power, that there scarce ever was a human spirit that could bear it; and the mind of man, which is weak and limited, ought never to be trusted with a power that is boundless. The state of tyranny is a state of war.”

St. George Tucker drove the point home – calling every act of usurpation not just theft, but treason or warfare against the people:

“Every delegated authority implies a trust; responsibility follows as the shadow does its substance. But where there is no responsibility, authority is no longer a trust, but an act of usurpation. And every act of usurpation is either an act of treason, or an act of warfare.”

A PRINCIPLE OLDER THAN AMERICA

This wasn’t some new American twist. It was an ancient truth. Cicero, 2,000 years ago, didn’t merely warn – he branded such tyrants as monsters on the spot.

“For as soon as a king assumes an unjust and despotic power, he instantly becomes a tyrant, than which there can be nothing baser, fouler – no imaginable animal can be more detestable to gods or men – for though in form a man, he surpasses the most savage monsters in infernal cruelty.”

In The Law of Nations. Vattel didn’t hold back – he called breaking the constitution “a capital crime.”

“To attack the constitution of the state, and to violate its laws, is a capital crime against society; and if those guilty of it are invested with authority, they add to this crime a perfidious abuse of the power with which they are intrusted.”

NO LAW, NO OBLIGATION

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui – likely the inspiration behind the phrase “pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence – argued that when people with power violate fundamental principles, the people are not only freed from any duty to obey, they’re almost duty-bound to resist.

“But if the abuse of the legislative power proceeds to excess, and to the subversion of the fundamental principles of the laws of nature, and of the duties which it enjoins, it is certain that, under such circumstances, the subjects are, by the laws of God, not only authorized, but even obliged to refuse obedience to all laws of this kind.”

He was building on the work of people like Thomas Gordon who also took the position that no one was bound to obey usurpations of power.

“Human reason says, that there is no obedience, no regard due to those rulers, who govern by no rule but their lust. Such men are no rulers; they are outlaws; who, being at defiance with God and man, are protected by no law of God, or of reason.”

Patrick Henry put this principle into practice with his Resolutions against the Stamp Act in 1765. Referring to the hated tax as “illegal, unconstitutional and unjust,” he forcefully argued that the people are not bound to obey.

“The Inhabitants of this Colony, are not bound to yield Obedience to any Law or Ordinance whatever, designed to impose any Taxation whatsoever upon them, other than the Laws or Ordinances of the General Assembly aforesaid.”

Tucker tied it all together – First, with a reminder that acts beyond the limits of the constitution – are not law at all.

“Acts of congress to be binding, must be made pursuant to the constitution; otherwise they are not laws, but a mere nullity; or what is worse, acts of usurpation.”

That being the case – the people are not bound to obey them. Going further, anyone taking an oath to support the constitution is bound to actively oppose them.

“The people are not only not bound by them, but the several departments and officers of the governments, both federal, and state, are bound by oath to oppose them; for, being bound by oath to support the constitution, they must violate that oath, whenever they give their sanction, by obedience, or otherwise, to any unconstitutional act of any department of the government.”

THE CONSTITUTION OR TYRANNY: THE CHOICE IS OURS

Violating the Constitution isn’t just a political mistake. From the Founders and Revolutionaries to the great thinkers who came before them, usurpation was called what it truly is: theft of power, treason against the sovereignty of the people, and an act of war and conquest.

This was the view of those who laid the intellectual foundation for the American Revolution – Locke, Cicero, Sidney, Vattel, and so many others. It was the view of founders like Paine, Adams, and more. They all made it clear: when government crosses the line, it turns from servant to enemy.

The Constitution isn’t a suggestion. It’s the supreme law of the land.

Here’s the kicker almost everyone ignores today: treason and tyranny will never stop themselves.

It’s up to the people to protect and defend their own Constitution and their own liberty – whether the government likes it or not.

Tags: Algernon Sidney, declaration of independence, Emer de Vattel, Founding Principles, History, Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, John Locke, St George Tucker, Treason



Michael Boldin

Michael Boldin [send him email] is the founder of the Tenth Amendment Center. He was raised in Milwaukee, WI, and currently resides in Los Angeles, CA. Follow him on twitter - @michaelboldin and Facebook.

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