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Maybe This Guy's Got Something!!!

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 10:45 am
by bfez1
This was emailed to me---take it for what it's worth!!! :)

Subject: FW: Maybe This Guy's Got Something

Dear friends & family,

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 $1.92 for regular unleaded gas in Riverwoods, IL. We all know that we're being screwed by the oil companies.


Does everyone remember how they drove up the prices way past a dollar and got the gas prices to where they wanted them, claiming there was a shortage of oil. Well, there isn't any shortage now, and the oil is more abundant than it was 35 years ago when the price of a gallon of gas was 29 cents!!!

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 cant 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 millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. Its really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp out on me at this point...keep reading and Ill explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to at least 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, lets 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!!! Ill 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 OR LESS RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK!!!!!!!

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 1:20 pm
by stormraiser
I usually don't buy gas from them unless there is nothing else around. THere are plenty of gas stations that sell quality gas for cheaper

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 2:14 pm
by Lindaloo
Add me to the list to boycott Exxon/Mobil.

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 3:15 pm
by Brent
We buy it where it's the cheapest. I don't think Exxon/Mobil has ever been the lowest. :lol:

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 3:20 pm
by Wnghs2007
My Gas prices went down 5 cents around me from 1.95 cents per gallon to 1.90 all around I look I see lower gas prices. Might be a start. Add me to one who has always boycotted Exxon/Mobile

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 7:33 pm
by BEER980
No one ever goes to Snopes before passing these along.

Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 8:08 pm
by Josephine96
Certain stations around here have lowered their prices slightly.. The stations that haven't have been stuck on the same prices for over a week now..

Stability isn't good.. here's why...

The last time our prices stayed stable for well over a week.. 1 day when we weren't looking the AVERAGE PRICE INCREASE AT EACH STATION was as much as 13 cents!

Just my 2 cents :wink: