[danamco]

Join the resistance!!!!

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 beencontacted! 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 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

[cyborg]

Doing my part already by riding a scooter and walking my friend.

[PA Engineer]

Tick Tick Tick Tick.

[DefCon]

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[Charles Henrickson]

GAS PRISES!

How do I win?

[greenwolf]

Park that van or suv unless you're doing something you actually need it for.

[strongbow]

Here in Alaska we love the high gas prices. The projected state deficit brought on by eight years of runaway spending by our outgoing democrat governer has driven the state into major red ink. Now with $30 a barrel oil it seems that the deficit is going away (for now).

[Diddle E. Squat]

Presisely...

[facedown]

Here it comes:

[fleur-de-lis]

I think you are barking up the wrong tree. For example:

Price breakdown of gas (APPROXIMATE):

$1.90 per gallon in Sacramento CA
-$.83 per gallon cost of crude oil ($35 per 42 gallons)
-$.55 per gallon all taxes
__________
$.52 per gallon left to cover transport to refinery, refining, transport to storage, transport to gas station, AND profit for refiner, distributor, and retailer.

The real cost is in the price of crude oil and taxes which the oil companies have little control over. Compare this to the price of milk which is a local product! Also, in 1970, gas was 37 cent a gallon. Factor that up with inflation and gas is the same cost as it was in 1970.

The REAL problem is that now new refineries have been built in California since 1968. Also, our California only formula makes it impossible for other states to help when a refinery goes down. This is typical across the nation.

If you really want to get help, then contact you local political leaders to get them to support more capacity and tell the environmentalists to stop delaying energy producing initiatives.

[Mike Darancette]

Go on, force the refineries and oil companies to lower their prices now. Within 6 months you will learn what is worse than high gas prices ---- gas lines and rationing.

[Gabz]

I can imagine the blasting I'm going to take for this........but I'm confused.

I hate the prices I've been paying for gas lately....yet in the past week they have DROPPED by between 5 and 7 cents a gallon. $1.57 this afternoon......Friday I paid $1.62....last Monday it was $1.65

[Sorcerer3]

My god people!!! it's not 'prises'! It's spelled 'Prices'!

[luvbach1]

I "love" Fox News and other news sources acting as if the 35,000,000 Californians don't exist. Newscaster (his name escapes me but I think he's the lawyer transplant from CNN)said gas prices may reach $2.00/gallon! Of course they've been well past $2.00/gallon in California for weeks.

[Slings and Arrows]

[Paulie]

Nothing cures high prices like high prices.

[deport]

GAS PRISES!

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April 1st isn't until next Thursday...... Or, are you just getting a jump on the event?

[xJones]

You have one of the finer 'keywords' lists accumulated by now that I've ever read.

[supercat]

Eliminating many of the bogus 'special formulations' requirements would do a great deal to reduce fuel prices. Unfortunately, by stifling competition these formulation requirements allow the formation of local oligopolies in the supply chain.

[Solson]

Go stick it in your tailpipe! This is not because of big oil companies. Looking for someone to blame? TRy the government.