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    lower gas prices?

    Got this in an email today.. think it could 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 Hollingsworth 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. 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!!!!!

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    I highly doubt that could ever work. Your best bet would be waiting until the amount of hybrids on the road is so great that it affects the demand of gas to a point that the price starts lowering. Even then it might not lower as other countries keep growing more and more and demanding even more gas.
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      #3
      I just severly cut down my independence on my automobile, therefore I win. Im having to fill up my tank once this month, though, as I plan to go visit my mom.
      Im now E30less.
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        #4
        it doesn't effect me one way or another...exxon/mobil always has the highest prices around me anyway, so much so that I have a gas card for almost all the stations around me except them.

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          #5
          Originally posted by Ryan Stewart
          I just severly cut down my independence on my automobile, therefore I win. Im having to fill up my tank once this month, though, as I plan to go visit my mom.
          As have I.... Bicycle for the stuff nearby, Bus if I have the time.
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          Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
          ...one of the most hardcore E30's around. :D

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            #6
            Originally posted by Ryan Stewart
            I just severly cut down my independence on my automobile, therefore I win. Im having to fill up my tank once this month, though, as I plan to go visit my mom.
            ha, i had a half tank yesterday in my truck and filled it up, now, one day later, my tank is at 1/4 full.

            gas is about 2.75 around here for reg, and my fill-ups have been exceeding $80+ as of late, its a bitch.

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              #7
              I buy my gas at "Aloha Petroleum" nfc if it is exxon/mobil

              It's free to me, so I don't care :P

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                #8
                I'm sorry, but this to me ranks up there somewhere between posting links to ebay auctions and those spam users that pop up every now and then with some offer on random crap.

                This forum isn't to be used for the spreading of retarded chain letters. This was clearly cut and pasted straight out of an email.
                Last edited by Jand3rson; 04-09-2006, 09:58 PM.

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