Gas Prices...hitting back

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. 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 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 sends it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =3D 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =3D 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 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 $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

Comments

I first saw this idea on the Internet probaby two years ago, and several times since then. So far, it either hasn't caught on or doesn't make any difference. Personally, I haven't bought anything but Wawa gas in years -- same for my entire family. In fact, most people I know say they buy their gas at Wawa, Wal-Mart,East Coast or FasMart. I've been wondering for a while how the big guys stay in business -- could it be the repairs or food stores they include? Again, I haven't bought "brand-name" gasoline probably for a decade or more. Somehow it hasn't made any difference. Took $38.00 to fill my tank today at Wawa!

[jimbrodhead]

Nor have I bought gas from anything but discount locations. The fact remains though that few of them if any refine their own product and they, no doubt buy some from the bigs but it's worth a try anyway I think.

Thanks for the comment and come back soon.

[gas girl]

Where Does WAWA get it's gas?

[Ruth Fryling]

Rather than just boycott a particular "Big Guy" I'd like to see listings of companies that don't use imported middle east oil for their gas. I received an e-mail with a list of a few companies of which only one was even in my state. And that station is almost 10 miles away. All gas distributors should have to post where they get their gas (oil) from.I'd like to know where Wawa gets their gas also.

[Tom McKenna]

Stations NOT BUYING FROM OPEC/mid.east gas

SUNOCO, CONOCO, SINCLAIR, B.P. phillips, ARCO, HESS

KNOWN CHAVESS stations
( Petro and Citro )

KNOWN BUYERS AND DISTRIBUTERS of MID-EAST OIL

Shell
Chevron/Texico
Exion/Mobil
Marathon
Speedway
Amoco