Please read

[mrmacey]

I just sent it too a couple hundred now follow suit.
A buddy of mine sent this to me,and it really makes sense. PLEASE read.
I think my keyboard got out the steroids while I was working. Look at the size of the print.
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 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 x 10 =
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.

[MAC]

done, good idea

[BigFish]

I don't buy from them anyway.....but when you get the other 500 million gas consumers on board...let me know!

[mrmacey]

when Hess, Shell, and the others run out they would have to get there supplies from Exxon and Mobil.

[macojoe]

I have seen this before.

It will never work!! Think about it, how many places do gas come from??

You may buy Joe's gas instead of Mobil or Exon, but were do you think Joe gets his gas from??

Joe doesn't have a refinery, nor does he have a platform in the gulf!

So you stop buying from them and you buy from Joe, joe goes to them buys more gas from them, They make the money any way!!

Sorry boys and girls we are in it no matter what!! All the other countrys pay $4, $5 and more for there gas!!

We habve had it easy for along time! And then we run around the world saying that we are the richest country, the all powerful, and we act as the worlds police.

Well why shouldn't the richest nation in the world pay the same if not more then the rest of the world??

We will pay for being the Best, Richest, most powerful, and shoving it in everyones face!!

[Slipknot]

I saw it before too, maybe been around for years.
it won't work

[Mike P]

If you think that what's in the underground tanks at most of the Exxon and Mobil stations around these parts was refined by Exxon/Mobil, you might be mistaken.

On Thursday I saw the same JP Noonan tanker delivering at 3 different brand stations within a mile. Exxon, Sunoco and Citgo.

[spence]

I think the only way to impact gas prices is a pragmatic Government energy policy that will let the big oil companies know they do not have a monopoly forever.

-spence

[Squid kids Dad]

MikeP is right

[BigBo]

Originally Posted by macojoe

All the other countrys pay $4, $5 and more for there gas!!We will pay for being the Best, Richest, most powerful, and shoving it in everyones face!!

It's only $.05/gallon in Iraq.

[lurch]

The only way to reduce gas prices is to drive slower, drive less and use a vehicle that uses less gas.

IMO there is no reason anyone who does not tow heavy devices needs a vehicle with a V8 engine.

[likwid]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp