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How to lower gas prices
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 ================================================== ================================================== ================================================== === 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. -- 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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"Frank" wrote in message news 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 snip It won't work. It never did...it never will. A gas boycott is impossible to effectively coordinate. |
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Around 9/3/2005 9:33 AM, Frank wrote:
This makes more sense than anything else I have heard. No, it doesn't: http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp -- ~/Garth - 1966 Glastron V-142 Skiflite: "Blue-Boat" "There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." -Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows |
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Demographic pricing... Worth a try, though. I already
stopped buying from Exxon-Mobil beginning of spring. State governors and legislators are as much to blame for their inaction: most states collect taxes from gasoline/diesel sales. The higher the prices soar, the more the states collect. Same goes for heating oil/natural gas but to a lesser degree than gasoline/diesel. We, the consumers, are being ripped off and 99.9999% of us are simply accepting it. We, the consumers, are to blame. Oh, yeah, we the consumers, are now paying for it. Franko "Frank" wrote in message news 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 ================================================== ========== ================================================== ========== ================================= 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. -- 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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