[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

[Fledermaus]

$3.00? We're the heck do you live?

I've heard this scenario since 1975. It's never happened.

Just adjust your spending. Let's say you use a full tank of gas a week (vast majority don't). At an average of about 15 gallons per tank, an increase of 50 cents a gallon from the $1.35 average last winter is $32.50 a month.

That's 8 movie rentals. One night out eating for two in a moderately priced restaurant. About 8 beers in a bar. One less BJ from a hooker, etc.

Sure, the price of other things go up but not at the same percentage. A 45% increase in gas prices doesn't make the price of delivered goods go up 45%.

And why hurt Exxon and Mobil and other gas companies? They are GOUGING you...it's supply and demand. They are just passing on their higher cost of crude. And in the summer you have more and more states that require re-formulation of gasoline for "environmental concerns" that raise the price. The margin of profit is low on a gallon of gas and your boycott only hurts your local sales outlet.

If you really want to whine about the price why don't you go after the real reason gas prices are so high - STATE AND FEDERAL GAS TAXES!

Check out your state's Transportation departments. You'll find they have surplus money invested in funds like in Tenn. The governments take in MORE than is required for the maintenance of roads. That's a fact.

So write your state legislatures, your Governor, your Congressional delegation and the President and ask them to stop taxing gas for a few months. At the national average of $1.80 a gallon today, almost 60% of that price is TAX!

Your solution is, sorry to say, ridiculous. You can't effect the price of gas going after Exxon and Mobil.

If you are paying $1.97 you need to ask how much of that is tax in your state and then ask how much of that is because of environmental bullcrap issues you states forces on the oil companies.

Why is everyone always quick to blame capitalism instead of the real cause - GOVERNMENT? Only liberals and idiots do that. Are you a liberal idiot? I bet you don't think so.

[Axenolith]

Dude, that boycott won't do jack.

If you want to put a crimp in gas prices and demand just get everyone you know to make sure their tires are inflated properly, knock 5mph off their speed, bunch trips, etc......

[dirtboy]

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.)

Having double-checked your bill when you stayed at Holiday Inn Express doesn't make you a mathematician, let alone an economist.

[BSunday]

Buwahahahah

We don't have to refuse to buy gas! Just refuse to buy from the big gas companies (are there any small ones?)

I know that somebody here more resourceful than I can come up with the statistic that allowing for inflation, gas prices have actually dropped or stayed the same (one or the other, I don't know which) over the last 20 yrs. Milk on the other hand has not. So are we all going to boycott Marva Maid, or what ?

[ElTianti]

I’m getting 28 MPG combined from my 98 Cavalier Z24, 24+ combined from my S2000 (a ULEV vehicle by the way) and 40+ from the CBR 600. Enjoy your Avalanches, Expeditions and F350s tough guys. But please yield to faster traffic or better yet stay out of the left lane altogether.

[paul51]

all you have to do is send this to 10 people

Why don't we set it up so we get a dollar for each person we send it to and then $.50 for everyone else in the downline. This way, we can all get rich while we crush big oil