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oldskool
Feb 25, 2004, 4:17 PM
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> Join the resistance!!!!
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> 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.
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> BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really
> work. Please read it and join with us!
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> 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 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.
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> Here's the
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> 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.
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> 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!!!
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> 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 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 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.
>
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mattdog
Feb 25, 2004, 4:29 PM
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If only economics were so simple.
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gravy
Feb 25, 2004, 4:44 PM
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Gas is cheap here (U.S.), way cheaper than in Europe.
It's alwasy been my thought that expensive gas could do us some good-- until there's a demand for more fuel-efficient autos, we won't see them in big numbers on the roads. On the other hand, if fuel's cheaper than water (literally) then most people don't have any real incentive to carpool, walk, ride a bike, etc... or junk their 8mpg SUVs.
BTW-- how bad for the environement do you suppose burning Hummer H2 would be?
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tradman
Feb 25, 2004, 5:03 PM
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Great. Only 3 problems:
1. The US is not a member of OPEC.
2. Oil companies don't make much of their money from selling petrol.
3. Oil companies are not interested in a price war. The price of oil is regulated by agreement bewteen producers, not demand.
This is an email sent out by spammers in the hope of building address lists to send unsolicited emails to. If you reply to it, be sure to add a sig line saying "I am stupid. Spam me please".
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winter
Feb 25, 2004, 5:12 PM
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Seriously, are you retarded? Do you seriously think that the majors give a rats ass if you buy gas at their gas stations or not? Do you actually think that selling auto fuel to consumers is how oil companies make their money? And furthermore, do you actually think that gas prices go up and down based on how many people are buying gas? Get real. This is not how the oil and gas economy works. You could do to have higher gas prices in the states, last time I was down there practically every second vehicle was an SUV.
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marks
Feb 25, 2004, 6:48 PM
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the price of oil NEEDS to go up.to stop wastage,its going to run out soon.
up the price for the sake of the planet
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arrettinator
Feb 25, 2004, 9:11 PM
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http://www.miami.com/...national/8032475.htm
In reply to: "That's been the history of the oil industry, especially here: controlling supply. If they can't control supply, the price plummets," Langley said. "It's just like it was during the electricity crisis," he said. "You could just look at Enron and Reliant and just substitute Chevron and Shell; they've just ripped a page from the electricity traders' playbook." |
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