Saturday, May 24, 2008, 10:46 AM [
General]
I POSTED THIS A WHILE AGO AT ANOTHER FORUM I VISIT REGULARLY AND IT'S NOT YOUR AVERAGE "DO NOT BUY GAS" CAMPAIGN, SO PLEASE READ I THINK IT COULD WORK IF WE STUCK TOGETHER.
ATTENTION: THIS
IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY APPROACH, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU
HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $1.30 PER GALLON.
This
was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his
engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the
gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take
time to read this, please.
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!
It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!!!
I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 PER gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down?
We
need to take some intelligent, united action. 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,this is a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us!
By
now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $2.00 is super
cheap. Me too! It is currently $3.19 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. (OPEC announced this week that it would not
increase production, thereby insuring that oil continues to sell for
$104 per barrel and higher.)
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, when they lower prices, you must resist rushing to
their pumps in order to buy their gas. You have to avoid buying their
gas completely, knowing that other service stations will follow suit in
a matter of days. So hang on! Eventually prices WILL fall.)
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 bug 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!!! (And that's more than
every gas buyer in the USA.)
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all! Well, and, of course, stop buying gas from just one company.
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.
There
is nothing wrong with corporations making a reasonable profit. But
$40.6 billion in just 13 weeks is a little over the top, don't you
think? With millions of Americans losing their homes and with taxes
going through the roof, we need some relief somewhere and there is no
sign in sight that any politician will help us. So, this is up to us.
Either hang together on this one or hang seperately--one at a time.
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 $2.00
RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
Do you think this would actually work if the people tried it?
It's in Cooperstown NY. at the Baseball Hall of Fame. That was the coolest store i've ever been in!
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