I received an email today with a good suggestion on how to beat the gas companies at their own game. This isn't a joke. I will do it and I hope you will consider the same. Here is the text:
> Subject: gas prices(THIS MAKES SENSE)
> > 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,
who ever 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 this 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 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 and DON"T
purchase ANY gasoline from EXXON and MOBIL.
> That's all. If you don't
> > understand how we can reach 300
million don't worry about it all you have do to 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 or
more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! 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.
PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP
THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
O.K. enthusiasts, I did my part. This BB is read by hundreds of people every day. Spread the word.
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