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Offline jeager106

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« on: April 01, 2006, 11:50:42 PM »
GAS PRICES:

Read please.
I recieved this in my email and I sent it to everyone In the Book.
I suggest you copy this and send it to all your contacts.

GAS WAR - an idea that WILL work

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.

And, we can do this 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!


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 IF YOU DO WHAT IT SAYS!!!

Other companies to buy from are BP, Texaco, Shell, Getty, Hess, Sunoco, Conoco and any other BUT NO EXXON/MOBILE

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« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2006, 06:41:53 AM »
This sounds more like a chain letter designed to clog network traffic than anything that has any likelihood of being successful.

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« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2006, 06:54:56 AM »
It wouldn't work anyway because none of the independent stations have their own refinerys. They buy from the major players. You'd be buying from a major player and not even know it.
:wink: Even a blind squrrel find's an acorn sometime's![/quote]

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« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2006, 03:01:52 PM »
We can revolt? Many people already claim I am revolting.

I consider myself merely strong-featured...

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« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2006, 04:04:37 AM »
share rides, car pool,  walk,  ride a bike,  get a more fuel effeicient vehicle, maybe stay at home and plan things that dont require fuel comsumpstion.    

kids,  i am walking the walk.  myronman has had it with getting shafted.  now i know it is just me,  but if only 10% of the population would do as i do,  it would make a helluva difference.  it also wouldnt hurt to hand out some inditments for oil company excutives for price gouging.  watch the prices fall then.  

if you are truely fed up,  find a practical way to adjust your lifestyle.  it will have more of an impact than sending emails.