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gas prices
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:46 AM
This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please.

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!
It’s worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!!!

I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down?

We need to take some intelligent, united action. 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!

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.

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 on me 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 send it to at least ten more (30×10 = 300) .. and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300×10 = 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 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 $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

Keep it going

THIS IS NOT THE ‘DON’T BUY’ GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $1.30 PER GALLON.

Re: gas prices
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:50 AM
how many times do we have to see this stupid BS posted?

get it thru your head....THIS WILL NOT WORK.

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Re: gas prices
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:52 AM
the dont buy gas for a day or 3 days has been around since gas was under a dollar.
and this thing is just a stupid. it wont work



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Re: gas prices
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:57 AM
only peasants bitch about gas prices.



Re: gas prices
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:34 PM
man i havnt bought gas from exon in 5 years and gas is still high, i just dont understand what went wrong.


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Re: gas prices
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:55 PM
When people find out thats its the government that is are rising the gas prices, maybe these stupid "plans" will stop. Where i live gas is going up 5 cents to 138.8 cents a liter tonight! Thats 5.27 a gallon. Its really hurting now. 20 dollars a day is nothing if you have to drive at all, and thats in a sunfire with an ecotec. In that 138.8 cents a liter here, there are 10 cents federal tax, 16 cents provincial tax, and 14% provincial tax. Is all that tax really necessary?
Re: gas prices
Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:00 AM
sndsgood wrote:man i havnt bought gas from exon in 5 years and gas is still high, i just dont understand what went wrong.


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Re: gas prices
Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:09 AM
steve white wrote:When people find out thats its the government that is are rising the gas prices, maybe these stupid "plans" will stop. Where i live gas is going up 5 cents to 138.8 cents a liter tonight! Thats 5.27 a gallon. Its really hurting now. 20 dollars a day is nothing if you have to drive at all, and thats in a sunfire with an ecotec. In that 138.8 cents a liter here, there are 10 cents federal tax, 16 cents provincial tax, and 14% provincial tax. Is all that tax really necessary?


maybe your govt....but our govt certainly does not control prices





Re: gas prices
Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:16 AM
Repost.
Junk.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp




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