zx12mark
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posted April 13, 2006 08:27 PM
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Subject: banal gas price suggestion mass mailing
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& nbsp;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?
S ince 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
   
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CrotchRocket
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posted April 13, 2006 08:34 PM
Sounds good to me!!!...I already buy cheap gas for the van, I buy Hess!!!
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entropy
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posted April 14, 2006 03:23 AM
 Edited By: entropy on 14 Apr 2006 04:26
from my vantage point (25+ years working for "Big Oil"), this is absolutely a GREAT IDEA!!!!!!
(I don't work for XOM)
In reality, it is a 110% crock of nonsense. This mechanism will not decrease the overall level of consumption, thus the supply/demand dynamic won't be changed 1 iota.
"Oil company's" don't set the price of oil, the commodity market does.
A very small % of the world's oil is produced a specific producer's field and goes directly to that producer's refinery and then on to that producer's retail outlet, allowing them to set the price of the gasoline.
Current supply / demand and the crude oil traders' anticipation for near term changes in supply / demand is what drives the market and the attendant prices.
You wanna lower the price of crude oil (and thus gasoline)???
3 ways:
1. encourage the major producers to spend more on capital investment in new production and refining: 4-8 year lead time for impact.
2. cut back consumption significantly: immediate impact
3. accomplish peace in the middle east. (N/J): immediate impact
Just my un-informed opinion... 
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Droid
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posted April 14, 2006 04:20 AM
I really feel for u guys stateside, here in the UK we have really cheap fuel it is only $1.60 a litre!
Ha, ha ,ha, ha.... oh dear i've just read the post again and you pay the same for a US gallon as we pay for a litre.
Never mind we only pay twice as much for the bike in the first place and twice as much for spares, etc, etc.
But don't worry because our minimum wage is nearly $10.
Have a nice day
Droid
I'm only posting sarcastically as my engine is in bits and it aint costing me anything to run at the moment!!!!
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