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twisid01
February 21st, 2004, 01:55 PM
I received this from a friend of mine via email. I read it and I think this might be our only chance at lowering the gas prices this summer. For all our sake try it. :samurai

Please read. I believe this idea will work if everyone does it.

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 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 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

xZenxNemox
February 27th, 2004, 02:36 AM
The information that would really help us here is if there was al list of what filling stations use those 2 companies. I could type out a list of 40 or so that are here in the DFW area, but can't tell anyone who buys thier gas from which company.

missouri
February 27th, 2004, 03:26 AM
thats been around for a few years now with little results ...all you would do is break a few gas station owners because the companies sell to everyone (7-11, U-gas, Moto Mart, etc.)...the groups who are against rising gas prices particularly hate boaters, RV's, Tow Vehicles for boats, and anyone not carpooling....
Our prices are really cheap when you look at how much we use in comparison to other countries and what they pay...we really have nothing to b!tch about...look at the power of our motors and fuel used....not to mention I'm surrounded by Mobil stations, it would take 1 gallon not to buy from one of them....

there is a thread here about the tax break you get on gas for marine use.........:)

firehill19
February 27th, 2004, 02:11 PM
xzenx, good to see your still around. Saw one of your posts on speedwake the other day, and was thinking i hadn't seen you post on here in a while.

pancepance
February 27th, 2004, 11:26 PM
I figure I got to suck it up a little and pay whatever i'm asked to. Everything that gets me from point A to B uses extremely more fuel that it has to, car, bike, boat, planes. I'm sure the ppl. in support of driving Toyota Echos would have a field day with me.
I tried that gas tax refund this year and atleast where I am its a bunch of garbage. It took an hour to get all the paperwork and another hour to fill it out. End result was a 6% refund of the "road tax" but then a 3% charge for "fuel use tax" so I think I wound up netting out like 40 bucks on $1,200 in gas last year. Not worth my time. By this summer I expect to pay $2.25 in the water and about 1.99 on land. Oh well, I've been saving all winter to burn 30 gal/hr.