Help Bring Gas Prices Down!!

Hey I go this in an e-mail today and think it's a really good idea that can work. Help spread the word people!! Copy and paste it and e-mail it to as many as you can.

This might be worth a try and it certainly won't hurt to test out this theory:
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.

Kerry Lyle, Director, Research Coordinator

 

I almost always buy Shell, which is what my old car likes. I tried to put a cheaper, generic brand in a couple of times, and it almost quit running-I never buy those brands anyway, but I think your idea may be worth a try. I'd like to hear from some folks with a little more knowledge of the oil industry and how it works to get their opinion on the feasability of this strategy. Anyone out there?

 

Why bring gas prices down? That just encourages people to use more gas.

I greatly welcome huge surges in gas prices instead.

 

You're joking? The gas prices are so high here in Texas that I can't even afford to drive to the places that I really need to go to, much less recreational driving. Where I live there is absolutely no public transportation, and even in the big cities in Texas, what little public transportation there is is a complete joke. How the hell are we supposed to get around, flap our wings and fly?

 

BTW, you live in Baltimore? I mean, really. You've got commmuter trains, subways, Amtrak-we have NONE of that here-and most people in this country don't either.

 

I hear that

 

even if we don't want to promote gas usage bringing the gas prices down will have an impact on the gas companies making them less inclined to fight for oil and to keep working for oil supporting legislation because they no longer have a reason to if everyone quits buying from the big companies. my question is what if the plan back fires and the smaller companies become the bigger companies and we then have the same problem only with a different name that before.

 

Did anyone read my above posts? What the hell are people like us in areas that have no public transportation supposed to do if gas becones completely unaffordable for us?

 

you start filtering the vegetable oil from the nearest restaurant

...you need a link? please tell me there's no hippie in the world still using petrol gas!

 

Petrol gas? What the hell is that? I happen to have an old hippy car from back in the 70's and the ONLY thing it will run on is Shell Premium. It was a hippy virtue to have compassion for other people-it's wonderful if you folks in the NE have all that public transportation, but nobody down here gives a damn about it (except me and a few other people). We either have to drive or walk-period. The nearest store is 5 miles from me.

 

That's a bummer.
I lived on an indian reservation for have a year.
The nearest real store was fifty miles.
That public transport border is a cruddy thing to be on the other side of.
Even here in massachusetts I had to walk almost forty miles one day last month because there are some places that just don't believe in buses and trains...
It was a pretty interesting time.
Oh, yeah,... uhm~ hehe
So, what was the question?

 

is not Gas for you car BUT EVERYTHING . I GIVE you a small example . Think of something you need . how does it get to the store ? guess what that too is going to go up becouse that truck delivery is going to pass on to you. then the domino effect kicks in. next thing we are in a deep shit recesion again.

 

Oh, yea, exactly. Higher gas prices=higher transportation prices (trains, trucks, airplanes)=inflation. I went to the nearest town Friday night and by Sunday morning the gas prices had gone up 16 cents a gallon-in 36 hours! That's one reason I sit in front of this computer so much-I can't afford to go anywhere!

 

One can only hope <(^_^<)

 

sooner or later the oils going to get rare and prices will go up ,if people are used to cheap oil its going to make things harder on them .

have any of you seen the film end of Suburbia america its a very interesting film you may be able to download it , what its about is the fact that the world is built on the idea of cheap oil especially america and that cheap oil is sooner or later going to vanish .

type in the words peak oil into a search engine and look at some sites
heres one that may depress you
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

 

You could always go with the flow and invade Iraq...

Shit! Too late. Still, Venezuala looks tempting. CIA overhaul of Chavez, maybe? Or perhaps you should absorb Alberta - its pretty close already.

 

Great Googly Moogly That Could Work! I'm Spamming This Thing Everywhere!

 

Oh and Charise... I feel you baby... Texas city are not designed for gas conservation.

 

ummm... exxon mobil has more than enough money in their warchest, the only thing that this will do is hurt small gas stations. Also, China and the rest of the developing world is outpacing us in gas consumption, so unless you have a way to mass distribute this there, you won't have an effect.
You're thinking locally, not globally.
Gas is going to rise, continualy, until it becomes unaffordable, (for some it already is). Consumption is only going to rise, and the producers are making too much money to increase production.
The only viable solution is to switch over to a different fuel, google propane or hydrogen powered cars, it don't cost too much to refit your car so it runs on it.
As for the person who only runs on shell v-power, i'm sorry, but you are fucked, we can't go back to the way things were (we never can), we're gonna have to find solution to go ahead on...
Sorry i ruined your ruckus-raking, but it's just not that good of a plan...

(Brazil has one of the most interesting solutions i've run across, for years their country has madated that they make cars that can run on both ethanol (that's science for moonshine) and gasoline at the same time, basically you fill up with whatever's cheapest, then when one runs out you flip a button and it switches over to another fuel)

 

we could trade them minesota, it's pretty much canadian anyways...