Gas price war?

[DriskellHR]

The following is one of those annoying chain letters we all receive. and they mention the "Boycot buying gas" idea but this one is new to me. I think it has merit but still is it possible to organize a campaign such as this one and will it really work??????

Any thoughts?




I will try anything to make the gas prices go down...

THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $1.30 or a little more PER GALLON.



This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please.

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!
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. 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 $2.00 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $3.19 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 pocketbo ok 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 ga s, 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 x10 = 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 pas s 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 $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

[Saxman]

So, they are going to buy gas and sell it at a loss?

[ScrmnPeeler]

Problem...

Exxon-Mobil would just sell their gas to the retailers that need the extra supply due to the increase in demand.

This is common practice in the industry.

Oil is a commodity that is produced by a supplier who can control demand and therefore messes with the freemarket thing; since the infrastructure is also property of the oil companies retailers are incapable of providing much price incentive.

If one terminal has a giant BP painted on the side of the tank; there may be fuel from 50 different companies floating around in there.

[caribe]

bicycle wherever and whenever you can. Other than that, car pool to the red. but I was doing that anyway.

[DriskellHR]

Problem...

Exxon-Mobil would just sell their gas to the retailers that need the extra supply due to the increase in demand.

This is common practice in the industry.

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good point. I did not know they did that. But it makes sense there is a back door for them to stick it to us!!

and of course we should all do our part and conserve fossil fuels whenever possible.

I have an vehicle that burn E85 but nobody seems to have it anymore. its not very efficient and last time I got it the drop in cost did not outweigh the drop in gas milage. so whats the point? I tried to use it just to use a replaceable fuel source but I cant even find it now. Sucks...

[dhoyne]

Sure it'll work. But the critical step 2 is to have a random noble from Nigeria deposit a few hundred thousand dollars in your bank account.

[krampus]

Its true, I know a guy whos brother is a friend of the Nigerian Noble's son.

[Crankmas]

everyone should get a Shell and Exxon credit card max them out and tell the two to go fuck themselves

[Shamis]

I want to vote again. One vote for the stupidity of this doesn't seem like enough.

[bcombs]

I want to vote again. One vote for the stupidity of this doesn't seem like enough.

Got ya covered.