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Old 03-13-2008, 05:42 PM
 
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Dropping Gas prices
THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, 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 a 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, 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 $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.

With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.

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 x10 = 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 $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.


Keep it going

Last edited by JeriBrook; 03-13-2008 at 05:43 PM.. Reason: typo
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Old 03-13-2008, 05:58 PM
 
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Our gasoline comes out of the Pittsburgh, Pa region and they refine gas for all of the other name brands...done to their specs...just the one refinery.
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Old 03-13-2008, 06:16 PM
 
Location: MSP
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Dosent the gas price have to do with the record price of crude oil which is determined by (1. The dollar becoming worthless 2. investors seeking high returns and flooding the oil market with those worthless dollars 3. the fact that world oil production is peaking and more oil is becoming more and more difficult to find and extract while world wide demand continues to go up??) Just my thoughts. I hate big oil as much as the next guy, but a company like Exxon Mobil only produces a small fraction of world wide oil production. nationalized companies produce most of it. The only way to fix this problem is to rely less on gas/and or the automobile and become more accustom to alternative modes of transportation, as painfull and expensive as it may be.
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Old 03-13-2008, 06:39 PM
 
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Originally Posted by JeriBrook View Post
Dropping Gas pricesTHIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, 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 a 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, 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 $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.

With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.

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 x10 = 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 $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.


Keep it going
Since the little companies buy their oil from the big companies, how exactly is this supposed to cut the price? What it does is hurt the store owners, not the gasoline owners.

Need to do better brain storming then that.
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Old 03-13-2008, 08:27 PM
 
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Oh my , No it cannot and will not work, all the gas is the same! guess where arco sunoco chevron shell jacpot get gas if they need to, exxon mobil and viceversa! There is one sure way to lower gas prices, actually two, the first, increase supply , INCREASE supply, increase SUPPLY, INCREASE SUPPLY!!!!! We need to be looking , drilling and refining our own oil!! The second way is for the government to cut their windfall tax profits from the sale of gasoline!! Can we all say ENOUGH, with these childish ridiculous boycott scenarios?
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Old 03-14-2008, 06:48 AM
 
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or we can decrease demand...creates instant overstock and cuts down the cash streaming into the banks...this will work...it's time for America to at least try it...
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Old 03-14-2008, 07:35 AM
 
Location: Fly-over country.
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anything that says "keep it going" at the bottom should just stop with you

it's code for "worthless spam"
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Old 03-14-2008, 07:37 AM
 
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Fine, so don't do anything at all and smile when you are paying $5 a gallon.
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Old 03-14-2008, 08:07 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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I try to buy gasoline from CITGO because I want my money to vote for Hugo Chavez. I also buy as little of it as I can (> $100 per month for two cars).
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Old 03-14-2008, 09:17 AM
 
Location: Pinal County, Arizona
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Re comments about Citgo: They are going away here (GOOD!) - there were cheaper places to buy anyway.

Are driving mileages are what they are - can't change them much. We usually fill up each vehicle once a week at either Costco or Sam's Club.
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