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Old 04-20-2006, 05:29 PM     Post subject: Gas Prices #1 (permalink)  
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 I know, this is pretty farfetched... but it's really easy to do.
If it worked, it would be cool, i'm getting sick of these gas prices.



I got this from an email

- an idea that WILL work

This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It's worth your consideration.

Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.

Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea.

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at
that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.

BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us! By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OP

EC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..... not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need
to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here's the idea:

For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other
companies will have to follow suit.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out at this point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people.

I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am, so trust me on this one.)

How long wuld all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!

I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you?

Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY
LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK!
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Old 04-20-2006, 05:32 PM #2 (permalink)  
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Yah, i got this email from my aircraft performance prof.

I dont buy gas since i hate driving. So im doing my part!

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Old 04-20-2006, 05:37 PM #3 (permalink)  
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i like higher gas prices
it keeps stupid people with big cars driving less
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Evertime you see someone driving an SUV in the city, shoot them. The price of gas will drop in a hurry.
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Old 04-20-2006, 09:09 PM #7 (permalink)  
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I paid £1.03 per liter yesterday, at a motorway service station.

UK £1.03 = 1.838962 U.S. dollars
1 liter = 0.264172051 US gallons

You do the "math"

No? Okay I will... $6.96 per gallon.

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 but, man, we've only got like 2 years of gas left by this point! stock up on hydrogen and farts cause you'll need them to run your scooters to get to work, hell it might even be next year.
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but, man, we've only got like 2 years of gas left by this point! stock up on hydrogen and farts cause you'll need them to run your scooters to get to work, hell it might even be next year.
Sort of correct Greedo, here's a pretty pessimistic but very real article about all that scary oil stuff.

http://www.exitmundi.nl/oilcrash.htm
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Old 04-20-2006, 11:38 PM #11 (permalink)  
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Fuck Bush and his oil.

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