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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.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK.



What do you guys think?

Exxon and Mobil are HUGE companies with fingers into a lot more then just Gas. If they dropped the public gasoline division completely they would barley notice the revenue loss. Secondly, companies like Sheets, WaWa, Hess and others buy Gas wholesale from Exxon and Mobil and store it in their own facilities. Boycotting only Exxon and Mobil stations would have very little impact on sales since most would then go to another Exxon/Mobil outlet not knowing where the gas came from.

I received an email similar to this before. Realistically speaking i'm up for anything to try and lower gas prices.

'cept us Americans are to stupid to stick it to the 'MAN' as a whole, we cant even get over 40% to vote at Election time but 80% disaprove of the Prez, etc; less and less parents actually parent their children and are involved in their childs education

Great idea -- it'll never work

I've seen this exact same plan with different numbers plugged into it for several years now. I thought initially that of course, it'd work. But after the same sort of research that highlander did, these letters go into the trash bin.

This would not work. Exxon and Mobil will just trade their gas to people who will see a higher demand, according to the lack of consumer demand, and vest the interest in their oil futures, making a "record profit" in that sector, and THEN will be eligible for subsidizing credits from their government to cover the losses from their business.

See, some businesses, like commercial gas, are so important that even if they see a loss, they recieve a credit from the government to support their industry presence, because they are so crucial to America's financial and economic sovereignty. These subsidies will in turn be levied to the citizens in the budget that our taxes are weighed against.

and all that would happen is alot of private owners of gas stations would have to align themselves with Big Gas to survive, and we would get closer to ... Hoo-Ray! /sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

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The only thing that can save us from steeper gas prices is a drastic change in driving habits for those using gasoline.

Personally, I have the following allowances for my gas budget:

250 miles for work (25 mile trip 10 times a week)
20 miles for trip (weekly to student's house)
20 miles for meeting (with instructors and fellow students)
30 miles for shopping/ resturants (about three trips out of way and four enroute to home from work)
50 miles for emergency or misc. use (optional)
30 miles for recreation (optional and accrued, i.e. i can "save it up" for a road trip)

400 miles a week max.
350 accrued per week.

For me at 28-32 miles a gallon (in a ford!) with a 12.5 gallon tank, that is exactly my full tank capacity expressed in miles, with fill up on Tuesday pulling in to the station with the needle almost on E. Consistently for over a year, that has been my mileage budget, and that is the way people MUST learn to drive to get the value from their car, their time, and their gas. The only way to make fuel affordable is to make it purposeful.