This makes more sense than anything else I have heard. It was forwarded to
me, and I am passing it on as recieved. I recall working in a gas station
when in high school. Gas was 0.27 per gallon.
Frank Hopkins
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Gas Prices
Worth a Shot!!!
Subject: FW: Let's Lower Gas Prices
Gas Prices?
I really like this idea. The only comment I would add it this..... Do you
think the oil companies were making fat cash when the price of gas was $1.50
per gallon? You bet your booty. From my business experience, price isn't
determined by what the product costs to produce, it is determined by what
the market will bear..... and currently our market is bearing $2.50+ per
gallon. With no action the cost will only go up. For those of you who were
with me in Kuwait, have you seen more Mercedes, Porsches, Ferrari's, BMW's,
etc. anywhere else? Not even in LA.
I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the end of 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 $2.75 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 (sic) 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 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 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 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.
GARY MCLEOD
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to
realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to
realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.