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" campai gn 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 s ee 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 pr ice 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 mill ion 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.

 

repost....im doing my part i dont use exxon or mobil

 

wow, just wow.

 

Do i get money from microsoft?

 

Heh, if someone sent me that, it will most likely go into my spam box
I'm with you though! LOWER GAS PRICES! DITCH EXXON AND MOBILE! GO REVOLUTION!

 

I wonder if you can also get a good price on XANAX and Vicodin?

 

Yap, though refineries are already maxed out, oil company can share some of the profit they are racking now to the consumers. I can't believe this administration is letting this happen.

 

Was that released by Shell's marketing dept?

 

I said the same thing to my wife I said shell is also one of the biggest out there, not to mention internationally.

bottom line putting pressure to at least 2 of them will create a chain reaction.

 

What a joke... http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

If you really want to do something to lower gas prices, get everyone to trade their gas guzzling G35 in on a Honda Civic.

 

You know what Toby? When the son of the deposed king of Nigeria emails you directly -- asking you for help – you help. His father ran the freaking country ok?

 

gasbuddy.com

 

repost magavin

 

Things are unfortunately far more complicated than a silly scheme like this. If you look at where "big oil's" profit is coming from its not from refining or selling gas. Its coming from the extraction of oil. Oil has been bid up by a combination of speculative investors and general demand. So when you ask big oil to lower gasoline you're basically asking them to subsidise the cost of gasoline from their oil extraction profits. This doesn't make any sense on their end and if you force them to; you're only bound to create gasoline shortages. The only possibility is to place some sort of additional tax on oil extracted from US soil which would probably only have a small effect.

One way to get gas lower without causes shortages would be to lower gasoline taxes, but you don't see your local politicians offering to cut their share of rising gas prices.

 

So that deposed african chieftain son was scamming me when he ask for my most personal information about my bank accounts and stuff. There is no money hidden away in some secret swiss bank that he will wire me? .....lol