Knock down gas prices! This may just be another email being circulated, but gas prices are killing me, and I know the oil companies arnt having a shortage of oil. Please read this and pass it along, Im tired of paying huge prices at the pump.
"-2004 GASOLINE PRICES-
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 $1.97 for regular unleaded in my town Now that the oil companie sand 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 whimp 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 about 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.)
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 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK."
Might as well see if this can work. About 4 years ago we were paying $.98 a gallon for regular where I live, now thats up to $1.75 at the least. I went to reno and it ranged from $1.99 to $2.15 a gallon.The oil companies say there is a shortage but at the same time they are making RECORD PROFITS... That doesnt seem right:mad:
Take Down Gas Prices!!!
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Here's a FAR better idea: Encourage everyone to take the bus for a week.
Here's why the "one day boycott" wouldn't fly: One day has no impact, as sales will just increase the following day.
PLUS, have you ever considered that some of the people that get the email will be gas station owners? They could just drop their price a nickel on the proposed "boycott" day and POOF! There goes your efforts.
They'll make it up by increasing a penny for the net 10 days.
As far as only boycotting Exxon and Mobil, the individual stations don't set or control their pricing. I researched this last summer. Almost all fuel companies are owned by a couple parent companies, they ALL buy from the same company locally, and in many cases, it's hard to tell whose fuel is whose.
Last year, when the whole "don't buy gas from the Middle East" thing was going on, I though I was doing some good buying at Arco (which is always a nickel cheaper). Guess what i found? ALL the gas in Phoenix comes from companies that buy from the Middle East. ALL of it.
Here's why the "one day boycott" wouldn't fly: One day has no impact, as sales will just increase the following day.
PLUS, have you ever considered that some of the people that get the email will be gas station owners? They could just drop their price a nickel on the proposed "boycott" day and POOF! There goes your efforts.
They'll make it up by increasing a penny for the net 10 days.
As far as only boycotting Exxon and Mobil, the individual stations don't set or control their pricing. I researched this last summer. Almost all fuel companies are owned by a couple parent companies, they ALL buy from the same company locally, and in many cases, it's hard to tell whose fuel is whose.
Last year, when the whole "don't buy gas from the Middle East" thing was going on, I though I was doing some good buying at Arco (which is always a nickel cheaper). Guess what i found? ALL the gas in Phoenix comes from companies that buy from the Middle East. ALL of it.