>This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola
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>executive It came from one of his engineer buddies
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>who retired from Halliburton.
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>It's worth your consideration.
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>Join the resistance!!!!
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>I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by next summer and it >might
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>go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down?
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>We need to take some intelligent, united action.
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>Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea.
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>This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain
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>day" campaign that was going around last April or May!
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>The oil companies just laughed at that because they
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>knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by
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>refusing to buy gas.
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>It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.
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>BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can
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>really work. Please read on and join with us!
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>By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at
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>about $1.50 is super cheap.
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>Me too! It is currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town.
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>Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us
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>to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at
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>$1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to
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>teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..not
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>sellers.
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>With the price of gasoline going up more each
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>day, we consumers need to take action.
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>The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we
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>hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their
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>gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
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>How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop
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>buying gas.
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>But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a >price war.
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>Here's the idea:
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>For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest >companies
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>(which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL.
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>If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their
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>prices.
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>If they reduce their prices, the other
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>companies will have to follow suit.
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>But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon
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>and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do!
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>Now, don't wimp out on me at this point...keep reading and
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>I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!
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>I am sending this note to 30 people.
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>If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and
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>those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =
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>3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches
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>the sixth group of people, we will have reached over
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>THREE MILLION consumers.
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>If those three million get excited and pass this on to
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>ten friends each, then 30 million people will have
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>been contacted!
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>If it goes one level further, you guessed it.....
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>THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
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>Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people.
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>That's all!
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>(If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million
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>and all you have to do is send this to 10 people....
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>Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician.
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>But I am . so trust me on this one.) :-)
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>How long would all that take? If each of us sends
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>this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of
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>receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be
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>contacted within the next 8 days!!!
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>I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did
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>you! Acting together we can make a difference.
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>If this makes sense to you, please pass this message
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>on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL
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>THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP
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>THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

 

You're really an Texaco/Chevron executive, aren't you?

Sounds like a plan. I use Chevron almost exclusively, so I'll consider my job done. Now it's up to the rest of you to do your part.

 

The plan is flawed. The oil market just doesn't work that way. If it did, the low volume producers would sell at lower prices earning lower margins to try to gain market share. Likewise, what's stopping Exxon/Mobil from taking advantage of their leverage and dramatically dropping prices to completely eliminate the competition? (or, as I call it, the "WalMart" strategy) No . . . in my opinion, they are either all in it together, or it really is supply/demand that's forcing up the prices (or maybe a little of both?).

 

Not really. Stay informed. Sounds good, though.

PS. I love Snopes!

Curt

 

You need to do more than post online to get this to work....
you would need media coverage and a mass following

 

I wonder why we cant get together like the immigrants did and get a protest going..

 

use shell...

 

this would be a really really long shot! and thats beeing optimistic

 

its a good idea..........but will never work

 

Well I will do my part, I use Shell 93 only.

 

i'd doing my part only, i only fill up with chevron 94, it will never work.

 

ahh well i posted this on a few boards, i only fill up with chevron and texaco...

(isnt texaco owned by exxon?)

 

only if the word goes around to the rest of the nation. gas prices are ridiculous rite now.
how did the nation wide protest about the immigration reform bill go about? we shud use their tactics and have EVERYONE involved in this.

 

gasoline is an extremely price inelastic product. this wont work.

 

That does nothing for the price of gasoline. Okay so gasoline is made from oil right, and the price of oil is the problem right now right? So we stop using Exxon and Mobil and those customers go to other gas stations. Their demand is going to increase and their sales will increase. So how does this effect the root of the problem again...the price of oil.