Perhaps you also have come to the conclusion that the current escalation of gas prices is a concerted plan on the part of the oil companies --- a monopolistic power play, pure and simple.
Someone has come up with a good idea for gas consumers to use to fight back. What do YOU think of this idea? It is not original with me. But I like it. I think it is doable. I think it could work. I definitely think we should give it a try. It is the best idea that I have heard so far. First, there is always the obvious idea of cutting out as much driving as possible. A 5% or 10% cut in consumption would create a surplus and send a message. But would it change the oil companies' concerted plan? I think not. Because the drop in sales would be spread evenly among the oil companies. The price increase offsets it, anyway. Plus the summer increased driving season in North America and Europe is about to happen. Here is an alternative idea that someone emailed to me that I like. Read the letter that follows below. This idea makes sense and if we can all stick together and follow it, then I am convinced that we can make the oil companies really feel the effective power of the consumer, worldwide. Here is the letter that I just received. This idea makes more sense to me than the don't-buy-gas-on-a-certain-day routine --- an idea being circulated recently. ---------------------------- Gasoline Prices! By now Americans are probably thinking that gasoline priced at about $1.49 is cheap. Me too! It is now $1.58 for regular unleaded where I live in Florida. Perhaps where you live it already costs more. In New Zealand the price has recently reached $5.00 per gallon. Now that the oil companies have conditioned us in the USA to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is cheap at less than $1.50, we need to attempt a concerted defensive response to their concerted price gouging. With the price of gasoline reported to be likely to keep going up everywhere, consumers need to start taking concerted action NOW. But what action can we take? The only way consumers can make an impact is by not buying gas. But, that's not really a practical option since we all have come to rely on our cars. But there IS a way that we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together. Here is the simple and doable idea. For the rest of the year 2001, just don't purchase gasoline from the biggest gasoline company in the world. This company is comprised of two companies --- EXXON and MOBIL. They recently merged into one company to form the largest oil company in the world. But their gas stations in the USA are still using the two separate names. When Exxon/Mobil sees that they are not selling any gasoline at all they will get a strong message and they will be inclined to lower their price. But, for this consumer defensive action plan to have a real impact we need to get this message out to literally millions of gasoline users. This is readily doable by email. I am sending this letter to at least 10 people and this health forum. If each of you send it on to at least 10 more . . . and those 10 send it to at least 10 more . . . and so on . . . then by the time the message reaches the sixth iteration we will have reached over one million consumers of gasoline. Acting together on this idea we can make the oil companies feel the immense power of the consumer. This is doable and worth doing. The sixth iteration could happen in just one week or less. If you decide to go along with this email communication plan, please do two things for the benefit of your friends to whom you are going to send this message. First, put all their email addresses in the blind copy (Bcc) area of the address boxes. Then you won't be sending everyone a long list of other people's email addresses. Secondly, don't "forward" this message. Instead, show consideration for subsequent readers by highlighting this whole email message with your cursor, then hit <Control> <C> to place the whole text on your clipboard. Then copy this message from your clipboard into the message area of a new email message by hitting <Control> <V> . This will send a clean copy of this email message to your friends --- without the annoying ">>>>>s" on every line. If this consumer defensive action makes good sense to you, then please pass this message on to ten people, or some more if you wish. However, if you prefer, write your own note and send it on to ten people. Let's make it our goal, starting right now, to not buy any gasoline at all from Exxon/Mobil until the price of regular gasoline at an Exxon or Mobil gas station in the USA is down to $1.29 per gallon. Those living in other countries may wish to set a different price goal. THIS CAN WORK, if we all stick to one price goal and all focus on the biggest oil company in each country. Gas consumers unite! =============================== Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.251 / Virus Database: 124 - Release Date: 4/26/01 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.251 / Virus Database: 124 - Release Date: 4/26/01 -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
