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| san | Posted
on 09-Jun-04 09:17 AM
This is a deviation from my regular official postings :) Someone forwarded me this email and thought I'd share. Maybe we can help drive the prices down. Please share with others too... San (forwarded message below) _______________________________________ MAYBE THIS GUY'S GOT SOMETHING. I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer. 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 it and join with us! By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $1.77 for regular unleaded gas in Riverwoods, IL. We all know that we're being screwed by the oil companies. Does everyone remember how they drove up the prices way past a dollar and got the gas prices to where they wanted them, claiming there was a shortage of oil. Well, there isn't any shortage now, and the oil is more abundant than it was 35 years ago when the price of a gallon of gas was 29 cents!!! 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 to $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 at least thirty people. If each of you 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 generation 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 email 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 I 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. PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 OR LESS RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK!!!!!!! PLEASE take a few minutes and pass this on to everyone you know!! If you can't e-mail it to at least ten people, please print out a bunch of copies and hand it out to your family and friends!! NO MORE MOBIL OR EXXON FOR ME!!!! |
| AX | Posted
on 09-Jun-04 09:35 AM
Thanks for sharing SAN :) Phillip Hollsworth is a genius. NO more EXXON or MOBIL for me too. |
| KaLaNkIsThAn | Posted
on 09-Jun-04 09:45 AM
Haha San, that makes sense... Looks like I am already in... I use Hess. ;) (unless Hess belongs to either Exxon or Mobil :P) so here I go, NO MOBIL NO EXXON... cheers!!! |
| SITARA | Posted
on 09-Jun-04 09:47 AM
Thanks San! Good way to start an andolan. Cheers! Hey hey Memoraa! Jaanch sidhya jasto cha ni! ;) |
| KaLaNkIsThAn | Posted
on 09-Jun-04 09:53 AM
Hey hey, Sitara hazur, How are you?? Jaanch ta uhile ho ni siddhiya.. 1 month bho... ahile chillax mode ma!! ;) Working hard and hardly working these days.. :P |
| babaal | Posted
on 09-Jun-04 09:57 AM
>>I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer. Not that I am trying to single out myself, but the gas prices in my area are already in the decline and I doubt it's gonna hit $3.00 by the summer (btw, when's summer?) |
| KaLaNkIsThAn | Posted
on 09-Jun-04 10:07 AM
Babal le ni babal garcha, Kata hola tyasto gas price decline hune thaam? Afu le still paying 2.17 per gallon, tyo ni the regular one ko. :P Bhagyamani ko bhootai kamaro... Jata babal, utai paisa ghatera babal... :) >>btw, when's summer? ummm, 21st of June... 12 din baaki cha ajhai.. eheh. Maile AC nakine samma summer is not here... hehe. |
| AX | Posted
on 09-Jun-04 10:38 AM
Kalanki bro, I think I needa move back to NY. I am paying 2.49 here :( pachas dollar ko chuna harek hapta :s |
| hansy420 | Posted
on 09-Jun-04 01:03 PM
looks more like email spam yet for a good purpose (???) |
| u_day | Posted
on 09-Jun-04 02:51 PM
I was never an EXXON OR MOBIL guy. I mosty use GETTY or TEXACO. BTW kalanki, HESS gas is not good for your car... or is it? hummm... Maybe that's what the big gas companies want us to think........ |
| babaal | Posted
on 09-Jun-04 03:33 PM
Here's what happened last week in FL, if you all didn't catch it in the news: Car owners rush to file claims - http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8813333.htm?1c Be careful, Shell and Texaco fillers. |