Someone emailed this to me so I thought since Im post whoring what a great time to earn one more post.....


>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 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 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 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.
>

 

Im down with this, Logically it could work....but there are some events that could prevent this from happening.

 

This is so old...and of course it would never work in the real world

 

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

 

i dont buy gas from them anyways.
only shell or cheveron.

im runninng on e right now and i stopped to get gas last night and saw it was at 2.95 and said screw it and left.
my car is goin to sit in the garage until prices come down, like steve's sits in a trailer.

 

i filled up last week at it cost $52...

 

GOOD LORD!!! Luckily you only drive 15 miles a day.

 

are u kidding? i drive out to 436/HowellBranch 4times/week + its about 8miles each way to work....i put about 300miles/week on my car now.

 

Golly... sorry man. Didn't want to upset you.

 

I put on 40 miles a day

 

Just yesterday I topped off my wifes Vet......$55=
If oil costs are that high why then do the companys
profits skyrocket every f****n year???

 

The strategy didn't work a year or two ago when it was first proposed; it won't work now.

 

Sorry you can't boycott Exxon AND Mobil. They are one company since 1999. And even if they lost market share and lowered their prices some, it would not be back to $1.50 a gallon. Crude oil cost 3x what it did back when we could get it for $1.50. Simple supply and demand will make our energy costs higher until we can 1) Switch from fossil based energy sources (lower our demand)OR 2) Stop emerging markets from competing for the fossil fuels... (lower their demand)You hear that China and India???

 

gas is going to be the same everywhere because the refining process is going to get more convoluted. The gov't has mandated a new additive process that the refining companies must use, so that cost will have to be built into the price of gas (which it has been for three weeks). Once it hits $3 a gallon, I think I will just drive the Prius around and park the Magnum.

 

likewise.

Wouldn't work and I shop at shell and chevron.