Gas Prices - Gas Wars

[loribell]

I got this in an email today. Funny thing is I have been saying for over a year that gas prices should not even be at $1.50 let alone closing in on $3.00 a gallon. Living in an oil state and seeing all the wells that are going in just really irritates me.

Saying that I really believe this is something we should try out and what better way to reach lots of people than posting in a huge forum like the DIS. Exxon's billion dollar profit quarters need to come to a stop and the only way to do that is to refuse to use them.

Feel free to send this to your friends and family. Lets see if we can get someones attention!

Subject: Gas Wars- Don't Buy Exxon/Mobil READ THIS PLEASE




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.&nb sp; 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 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 x 10 = 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 mill ion 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 ca n 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


Thanks for the vent!
Lori

 

[Viking]

I don't know what you're smoking, but I assume it's illegal

 

[troy mcclure]

Whenever I get an email like this (and this one has been around since at least 2001), I check out snopes.com. This is just another version of the same old boycott "X" gas producer. Has not worked in the past and won't work now.

 

[brerrabbit]

This would not even cause a blip on the radar screen. Also consider this. 75% of all gas stations in the US are not owned by the major oil companies. They are independent dealers who have signed supply agreements with the brand they represent. When the oil company drops the gas off at the station the independent dealer pays the oil company. If this kind of thing had any effect at all it would be to hurt the independent dealers not the oil companies. Also remember that a lot of these stations are owned by people who only have one or two stores and all you would be doing is interupting their cash flow for a day. Besides oil and oil products go into making so many other things that the majors would not even see a blip on the radar screen. Go read Snopes. It will not work.

 

[zurgswife]

This is such an internet joke....I saw something similar months ago...it would never ever work.

 

[Brianne]

I remember a similar version of this email from 3-4 years ago. Couldn't really see how it could work then, nor do I see it working now. There's ways to make a point about how upset everyone is about the gas prices, but I don't see this as being an effective way.

 

[CarolG]

There was another thread about this on the Community Board just last week: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1083991