i don't know that all of the claims in this article are facts, but i
think the idea is a good one. for people on fixed incomes and with few
resources, $4 a gallon is a real burden.
emma
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Subject: [Whittier_Peace] Lets have a gasoline price war this summer]
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:21:41 -0500 (CDT)
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Lets have a gasoline price war this summer
wouldn't it be great if it worked and gasoline prices plummeted?
GAS WAR - 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 OPEC 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 =3D 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more
(300 x 10
=3D 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 <BR>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 would 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.
How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call
rates.
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