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Idea for gas price help

rice

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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 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 sends it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =3D 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =3D 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,all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... I'm a mathematician, 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. :shock:
 

wallew

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Rick,
I applaud your tenacity.

However, your numbers are a little off. CURRENTLY there are about thirty million subscribers of the internet here in the US.

So that means IF we are lucky, you reach all of them. Then trying to get all of them to go in the same direction will be a monumental task. AND THE OIL COMPANIES KNOW THIS.

I personally suggest you modify this to 'sell ONE of your cars that burns gas and purchase something that burns diesel'.

In EUROPE, over fifty percent of the vehicles on the road run on diesel.

Then to REALLY make an impact, have all of these people who have just purchased a used diesel vehicle to start running it THIS SUMMER ONLY on vegetable oil. Notice I did NOT say WASTE vegetable oil, but plain old vegetable oil that can be purchased in bulk at Sams Club or where ever for less than that $4 a gallon price. While I personally doubt you can get ANYONE to do this, as it is almost impossible to get four people to agree where to go to dinner, much less make basically a political statement about the 'oil price control' that is going on in this country, it would be a noble cause for sure.

I have purchased a deuce for just this reason. I have just sold my 91 GMC Suburban to my sister and BIL and it's replacement will hopefully be either an M1008 or an M1009 with the 6.2 L diesel engine in it.

That means it's one less vehicle on the road that's going to be putting money into the coffers of the large oil companies, as I will start biodiesel production in the next few weeks.

Good luck with this venture.

jim
 

rice

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I now have 4 diesel trucks, 2 Cummins diesels and 2 m35`s. I've been keeping up with all the info on alternative fuels. I will be checking waste oil sources pretty soon once I get everything in place. Thanks for your input. Keep me posted on your biodiesel progress, as I'm looking that direction also.
 

tjcouch

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The gas boycott scheme that proposes to alter the demand side of the equation and result in lower prices by not purchasing one or two specific brands of fuel will not work.

The reason: the scheme is based on the misconception that an oil company's only outlet for gasoline is its own service stations. This is not the case: gasoline is a fungible commodity, which is to say if one oil company's product isn't being bought up in one particular market or outlet, it will simply sell its surplus to another outlet or vendor.

In fact, it is quite possible that this would result in an increase of price. Since people are no longer purchasing from one vendor, the competing vendors would experience an increase in demand and adjust their price accordingly.
 

wallew

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That's why I LIKE my idea MUCH BETTER. REMOVE yourself from the 'supply cycle' completely. THAT WILL HAVE an effect.

It might actually be the reverse effect though. As ALL oil producers start losing sales they may actually up the price to keep their profits high.
 

mcmullag

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I've seen discussions on this before....

following info from "urbanlegends.com" ..... Comments: If this invitation to participate in a "Gas War" against Exxon Mobil seems familiar, that's because one version or another of the text has been in constant circulation since 1999. Unfortunately, this "different approach" to addressing rising gasoline prices is no more likely to succeed this year than it was in 2004, 2003, or any other year the message has circulated.

Economists say it's unlikely that any form of consumer boycott could have an appreciable effect on gas prices nationally. Furthermore, it is hard to conceive of a less effective way to "organize" such a boycott than passing around an anonymous, randomly distributed chain letter like the one above. Past attempts have shown little or no results.

"It's hard for a call to boycott to work," Monroe Freeman, author of a book on consumer boycotts, told the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2003 when a previous version of this message was spreading via email. "These often are 'Johnny One-Note' efforts which don't have the money, the organization and the sustainability to succeed."

A representative of Exxon Mobil echoed Freeman's analysis, characterizing the effort as unrealistic. "Unless total demand is reduced for a particular market area, as opposed to shifting purchases to other companies' stations," the spokesperson told the Union-Tribune, "retail prices are unlikely to decrease — unless, of course, there is an increase in supply to that market area." The major oil companies have consistently denied that consumer boycott attempts have dampened national sales. Service station operators say their pocketbooks are hurt by surging gas prices no less than consumers'.
 
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