fighting back on high gas prices!

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>Let's make this work!  :car:
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>  It is rumored that we are going to hit close to a $1.42 a Litre by the
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>summer. Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some
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>intelligent, united action. Phillip Hollsworth, offered this good idea:
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>This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the don't buy gas on a certain day
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>campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just
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>laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to hurt ourselves
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>by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it
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>was a problem for them. BUT, this is a plan that can really work. Please
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>read it and join with us!
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>We all know that we're being controlled by the oil companies. Does
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>everyone remember how they drove up the prices way past a dollar and got
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>the gas prices to where they wanted them, claiming there was a shortage
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>of oil.  Well, there isn't any shortage now, and the oil is more abundant
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>than it was 35 years ago when the price of a litre of gas was 29 cents!!!
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>Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to
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>think that the cost of a litre of gas is CHEAP at $0.78-$0.85, we need
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>to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the
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>marketplace....not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more
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>each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see
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>the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not
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>purchasing their gas! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How?
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>Since we all rely on our cars, we cant just stop buying gas. But we CAN
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>have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price
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>war.
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>Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline
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>from the two biggest companies (which now are one), PETRO CANADA, SHELL.
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>If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their
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>prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to
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>follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions
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>of PETRO CANADA and SHELL buyers. Its really simple to do!! Now, don't
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>whimp out on me at this point...keep reading and Ill explain how simple it is
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>to reach millions of people!!
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>I am sending this note to at least thirty people. If each of you send it
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>to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least
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>ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches
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>the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION
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>consumers! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten
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>friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes
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>one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
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>Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all.
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>How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten
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>more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could
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>conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! Ill bet you I didn't
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>think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can
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>make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message
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>on.
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>PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $0.64 OR LESS
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>RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.  THIS CAN REALLY WORK!!!!!!!
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[Rick Teal]

I received this a week ago, and promptly ignored it.  I think its something that came out of Standard Oils PR dept.  Notice that the two companies they want us to boycott are Canadian and Dutch owned - not a US company to be found.

[hardertr]

Saw the same crap the other day...only it was Exxon and Mobile mentioned.  It's just another form of chain mail.  Chances are it's some junk mail distributor fishing for valid email addresses.

[shootinblanks]

Got to remember, that this would only hurt the retailer's not the oil companies.

[Demonical]

The only thing you can do about rising gasoline costs is drive less; drive more fuel efficient vehicles; use public transit more.

I am no happier then anyone else, when I fuel up my vehicle, but perhaps my position in the Oil & Gas industry gives me a better understanding then the average consumer and I have done a little research on the subject.

I am sorry but when I see threads about the price of gasoline, fuel gas or heating oil and how the prices are outrageous it always makes me laugh!

There is no conspiracy by the big oil companies! Have you ever heard about Peak Oil? Have you listened to research by people like Henry Groppe? It costs enormous amounts of money to find sources of energy and not just any reservoir can be produced. There are immense costs involved to develope and produce an oil or gas field.

The worlds energy supplies are dropping at the same time as consumption is increasing. The result is ever increasing pressure on the supply/demand equation.

Why else do you think the big Oil & Gas companies are increasingly expanding their exploration into deep water off-shore basins and such? All the easily exploitable, "cheap" oil and gas has already been found and identified. Believe me the problem will only get worse and worse over time. This is also why all countries are expanding nuclear programs and developement of reactors for energy production.

Do yourself a favor and do some research on the subject of Peak Oil, but be prepared to be angry, frustrated and maybe even a bit depressed. It is not a pretty piture. The future is going to be extremely nasty as the worlds Super-Powers collide over dwindling energy reserves.
Look at the situation that is developing in the Middle East; USA vs China; Russia; Iran etc... Venezuala nationalizing their energy etc... the USA invading Iraq to "free" the Iraqis.

The USA invaded Iraq to secure the OIL RESERVES of Iraq and to establish a military presence their to respond to unstable situations in Saudi Arabia; Iran; Kuwait etc...
Do a little research on USA strategic military planning etc...
The invasion of Iran is imminent. It will be done to prevent "nuclear proliferation" or something like that. An interesting thing is that all of the major Iranian oil fields lie just across the Iran/Iraq border. The siezure of those fields is actually pretty simple from a military standpoint, plus the guy (Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) in Iran really is a nut-bar!!

Getting back to energy costs, a HUGE IMPACT that Peak Oil and rising energy costs will have is on food production and prices. You already are seeing it today and believe me it will only get worse. Look at what milk costs!! Here in Alberta gasoline is $1.06/L, 2% milk is $0.93/L. Almost as much as gasoline!! Well price that per barrel and you will find out that bloody table milk is far more expensive then crude oil!!
You still drink milk right?

Energy costs are going to cause an increase in the price of food production over the next centruy that will lead to mass starvation(s) of the worlds under-developed nations, wars etc...



NOW BEFORE ANYONE GOES OFF HALF-COCKED AND ACCUSES ME OF BEING A LEFT-LEANING LIBERAL OR SUCH, I AM ANYTHING BUT!!

I DESPISE THE LEFT-WING LIBERAL ESTABLISHMENT!!


Like I said, do a little research into this stuff and base responses on that before you fire off...



Cheers! Jim.

[Snowshoe]

There is some truth to what you say, but the oil companies are taking huge record profits. The price always jumps just before a long weekend. That is price gouging! We need and I think we will see alterative energy taking over, but the oil companies will take all the profits they can before they fall.

[upnorth]

sorry jim, but I feel peak oil is a myth. they have been predictiong peak oil since the 70's, and we still keep finding massive reserves all over the world. If you want to do some research on the myth of peak oil, pick up a book by Dr. jerome Corsi entitled  " Black Gold, Stranglehold  " I found it very hard to disagree with him after reading this book. Not saying that I'm right or wrong, but you should research both sides of the argument.