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Old Apr 28, 2006 | 12:59 PM
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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 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 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.
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Old Apr 28, 2006 | 01:01 PM
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Old Apr 28, 2006 | 01:27 PM
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There's no gas crunch.
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Old May 1, 2006 | 04:32 AM
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Stupid is as stupid does.
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Old May 1, 2006 | 09:59 AM
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is as does.
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Old May 1, 2006 | 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by 8D_In_Trunk,Apr 28 2006, 01:27 PM
There's no gas crunch.
given the smiley, I'd say there's too much gas.
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Old May 1, 2006 | 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by S2020,May 1 2006, 02:05 PM
given the smiley, I'd say there's too much gas.
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Old May 1, 2006 | 04:17 PM
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Hey dumbass, before you start boycotting ExxonMobil-let me ax you this (a little Tupac Shakur touch for you)-are you willing to get rid of any mutual funds that you own, that OWN E/M stock? Are you a teacher? A lot of teacher retirement plans own E/M stock.

E/M also supplies a tremendous number of independant gas stations with gas/oil products. You gonna drain your S2000 of the Mobil1 syn oil?

And just to make it clear--the US gov't "earns" more money per gallon of gas (via taxes) than E/M does.
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Old May 1, 2006 | 04:20 PM
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Won't work.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp
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Old May 1, 2006 | 04:27 PM
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Every year, same old chain letter. I've been seeing this same email since I started actively using the internet 8-9 years ago... and back then gas was less than 50 cents a litre ($1.10 now).

People bitch too much about a product that we get for so cheap.

Ever bothered to look at what a bottle of water or milk costs lately?
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