GAS WAR- an idea that will work!

I don't drive, but I thought you would be interested...

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
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 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.

 

i remember.. back when i first got my license... there was a huge gas war goin on.. and gas got as low as 60some cents... it was crazy

 

Jezmund

I have been saying the exact same thing for several months (see other topics on gas prices).

Unfortunately, there has not been much interest but now that gas has crossed the $3.00 per gallon mark people may start to listen.

BTW- I heard that we might see $4.00 per gallon this summer not next summer!

The reality is that we can not boycott the entire oil industry. We all have to go to work etc.

What most people do not understand is that the oil companies are working together to restrict refining and artificially rasing the price of gas. This has nothing to do with fee trade or supply and demand. In fact, we have a huge surplus of oil! Last month consumption was down yet prices continue to rise.

By boycotting one company we can break up this unholy alliance that the oil companies have. I agree with you about Exxon/Mobil. I have not purchased a single drop of Mobil gas since shortly after Katrina.

What I do:

I buy no gas from Exxon/Mobil or Hess

I buy no gas on weekends

I buy only from Sunnoco/Shell. Gulf, BP, etc.

The beauty of this is that you do not have to disrupt you life at all and can continue to buy as much gas as you want. Just do not buy from Exxon/Mobil or Hess stations.

We the consumers have the power. We just have to use it.

 

Well it's a good thought but here's the deal straight from snopes:

 

I am not so sure I agree with that article and I will give you a real life, not theoretical example why.

A local Golf station in my area suddenly started to sell gas for 10 cents less than the other 3 stations on the street witch included a Mobil, Citco, and Stewerts. The other stations held out for about 2 days refusing to drop there prices. Late in the second day the other 3 stations were forced to drop their prices (because they had no customers) to the same price that golf was selling their gas for.

It is rare to see just one gas station on any given street. So, if people in that area stop buying gas from just one of those stations (Mobil/Exxon) and only buy from other stations on the street then you will see the stations with few or no customers dropping their prices. That in turn will cause the other stations to drop their prices as well.

 

I'm the oil journalist for a paper in the epicenter of America's largest on-shore oil play of the past 25 years during a boom cycle, I've done research throughout the industry, what I've found is the "gas stations" don't make money from selling the gas, they mostly sale it at cost, the prices are truly a reflection of how much they paid for it. The gas station's highest return is on the twinkies and coke you purchase.

Some gas stations are mom and pop owned contracted to distribute the gasoline thus they may have a "Reese's Shell" station, but Reese doesn't control the price of gasoline, that's why he sales twinkies and cokes. Others are corp. through and through, so be sure you're not mistakingly accusing the little gas station owner becase his price has climbed. He or she's feeling it too, most likely harder than you.

What's funny here is in the middle of this massive oil boom out here, we have more oil than we can even get to market because producing so much oil has crippled our infrastructure and ability to get the oil to market. 80 million barrels of oil out of this one lil eastern Montana county last year, the highst quailty of ligt sweet crude in North America, can almost be used with out refining it's so good, but we are taking a $35 barrel a hit for it and who takes that in the ass? the municipalities on the land that's being raped and pilaged.

The small oil companies here doing the job are taking the hit too from the Canadian pipeline company which buys the oil from the marketer, then pipes it to the mid-west for refining where it gets sold to distribution companies which have the deals with the gas stations to sale the oil to the public.

There's currently a bad bottle neck situation, there's not enough pipelines in the from the remote most prolific oil producing areas, right after Katrina which took out a great deal of refining and pipeline transport for several months, if you were to find the map of the nations largest pipelines and refineries, you'd see most are in the gulf coast area. Right after that during Denver's planned offline updating, one of their 3 refineries caught fire and has been offline for the since then. All of the refineries in Minn. and Ill. are a capacity so they won't buy the oil being produced, so the pipeline's wont buy it because they can't sale it to the refineries, so the marketers who can hold it depress the price the little oil companies can get for their high quality good oil, and the price at the pump goes up as soon as that article about the bottle neck ran in the Wall Street Journal last week.

 

well every that just read that, means it worked cool

 

Ride a bike

 

While that is no doubt a good suggestion since riding a bike is good for the environment as well as good for our health. However, it just is not a practical solution for most people. Manny people do not have the luxury of living close to where they work, go to school or shop. Many people live 40 miles or more from the places they need to go.



Anyway, a hole town in Texas is starting a boycott against Exxon/Mobil today that will last until they reduce the price of gas to $1.50 per gallon. I say we all join them!

 

y'all certainly have a thorough grasp of economics.

 

Here is another true story:

There is a road near where I live that has a high volume of traffic. The Mobil station on that road was selling gas for $3.17 a gallon. Down the road just a 1/4 of a mile was a Citco station that sold gas for $3.09 a gallon. The Mobil station stubbornly refused to lower there prices for 2 weeks. Tody they finally showed signs of weakening and dropped their prices to $3.11 per gallon and I suspect that in a day or two they will be forced to match the $3.09 price. (Empty parking lots and stores tend to have that effect on businesses). This is yet more proof that boycotts can work even if we only target one or two companies!

Continue to boycott Mobil and Hess stations!

I personally am expanding my boycott to include other goods sold by Mobil and Hess stations as well. While I would not buy any gas from Mobil stations, I still purchased things from there stores (sodas, lotto tickets etc). However, starting tomorrow I will not purchase anything from Exxon/Mobil or Hess stations until gas prices are brought down to a reasonable price!

 

Read here for something interesting.

The criminal oil giants are benefiting from the lack of any viable competition. The criminal administration keeps making sweetheart deals for pig oil and looks the other way when supposedly competing oil giants fix prices and gouge us at the pump. Every time anyone fills up he or she becomes a victim in a huge conspiratorial scheme to defraud us of our hard-earned money. The government does nothing... George Bush has said himself that he sees no evidence of price gouging.... then again, it's no surprise he might not see anything as his head seems to be firmly lodged up his ass.

Look at where the fortunes of our President and Vice President came from. Big oil. People need to know that they are being ripped off. They also need to know that the United States government is making sure that it stays that way by steadfastly refusing to encourage the transition to ethanol maintaining our "addiction to oil". What Bush said in his state of the union speech was quite true but he was just paying lip service- he had and still has ZERO intention of doing anything meaningful to break that addiction. You might think hybrids are the answer but the costs- both upfront and maintenance in the future are prohibitive. The oil gluttons are banking on you giving up on the notion that there are alternatives... they are so confident of their stranglehold on the economy that they are basically charging what they please and the government's attitude is you'll pay it and like it.

It's time to get pissed off. It's time to get your family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers pissed off. It's time to walk, ride a bike, and carpool. It's time to write the criminals representing you in Washington D.C. and DEMAND alternatives. Anyone not giving a damn about the current crime in progress deserves to have their assests stolen.

 

Bumpity bump bump...

Here is another national story. What I find interesting is this prtion of the interview:

I think the fact that U.S automakers are already manufacturing flex fuel vehicles but the technology isn't being marketed here speaks volumes about our current energy policy and how important it is to lawmakers to keep us addicted to oil. What is going on is a major crime in progress and our lawmakers are aiding and abetting in it. As victims, it's time we first educate as many around us and then be heard in a manner that cannot be ignored. An administration that doesn't respect ethical business practices nor its own laws supposedly designed to prevent businesses from bilking consumers deserves absolutely no respect from us.

Whatever means to strike terror in the hearts of not only Big Oil executive Pigs but also congressional racketeers needs to be employed... no holds barred. The syphoning of the world's economy must stop. Now.

 

at any rate it sounds like a feesable idea, post that first read on your Myspace bulletin section... And lets see it it spreads? I gave it a go..... and will proceed with its direction



Mike