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fzzy
04-21-2005, 08:00 PM
I don't usually forward emails, but this is a good idea and thought I'd share it with my Pixies pals .... I guess it seems more on my mind since I had to fill my tank today ... gas (I buy the middle grade) cost 2.789 per gallon ... almost $50 to fill my tank!!!


MAYBE THIS GUY'S GOT SOMETHING.

I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the 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 $2.27 for regular unleaded gas in Riverwoods, IL. We all know that we're being screwed by the oil companies. Does everyone remember how they drove up the prices way past a dollar and got the gas prices to where they wanted them, claiming there was a shortage of oil. Well, there isn't any shortage now, and the oil is more abundant than it was 35 years ago when the price of a gallon of gas was 29 cents!!!

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 $2.25, 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 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 at least 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. 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 I 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.

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 OR LESS RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK!!!!!!!

PLEASE take a few minutes and pass this on to everyone you know!! If you can't e-mail it to at least ten people, please print out a bunch of copies and hand it out to your family and friends!! NO MORE MOBIL & EXXON FOR ME!!!!

Booger
04-22-2005, 12:26 AM
This sounds great but it won't work for two reasons. One is the same amout of gas will still be being sold so EXXON and MOBIL will just sell their gas to the smaller companies. Which won't beable to keep up with the demand that is being placed on them by all the pople buying from them that were buying from EXXON and MOBIL. You may think they won't work togeather like this but they have been working together to keep the prices going up what makes you think they won't againto keep them that way.

As far as reaching 30,000,000 by the sixth generation of people this works great on paper. but in real life it dosn't quite work that way. First off you have to figure on poeple like me who just don't forward stuff like this. Pluss even assuming that ever one you send it to takes the time to make sure they aren't sending it to one of the ten that you did. You have to figure with friend quite often have the same group of friends that of the ten you send it to some of them are going to send it to the same people. So let crunch some numbers here lets just say 1 of every ten just don't forward it at all that 10% and 2 out of the ten end up being sent to some one as doubles thats 20% so 30% of is wasted. You may say well 30% of 9,000,000 but even thinking this way you've dropped it down to 21,000,000. But it dosn't work that way you lose 30% each generation.
((30x10=300)-30%=210) (30x10=300) loss of 90
((210x10=2100)-30%=1470) (300x10=3000) loss of 1530
((1470x10=14700)-30%=10290) (3000x10=30000) loss of 19710
((10290x10=102900)-30%=72030) (30000x10=300000) loss of 227970
((72030x10=720300)-30%=504210) (300000x10=3000000) loss of 2495790
((504210x10=5042100)-30%=3529470) (3000000x10=30000000) loss of 26470530

so insted of the 9,000,000 lose you have a 26,470,530 so don't beleave everything just because it looks good n paper.

nikki1979
04-22-2005, 03:23 AM
danm that took alot of thinking to follow LOL id love to say it wud work but theyll just find another way to hike it up there. just be just be thankful gas aint as high as it is over here and CAR POOL and split the dif, that wont help bring the prices down but itll help u from paying so much!!!

~nikki

dicksbro
04-22-2005, 04:01 AM
Let's face it, the real solution will be when we can come up with alternatives to using oil in our cars and trucks ... things like hydrogen or maybe electricity or maybe something more exotic than I can imagine. Even a better public transportation system would help. Federal support for rail right-of-ways might go a long way to bring that form of transportation back as a "people mover." Need to try something, that's for sure.

Either alternative fuels or at least doing like Brazil and bringing the level of ethenol (corn alcohol) up to 70 or 90%. Retuned engines run fine on this and it dramatically reduces the amount of oil needed by our cars and trucks.

MilkToast
04-22-2005, 06:14 AM
of course reduction in the amount of gas we consume, not just finding a different fuel supply, would also go a long way to help... do all of us that drive vehicles that only get 15mpg (or maybe 21mpg on the highway) really need that type of vehicle. Could we have gotten a smaller engine with it? do we really need to have a 7 people mover as the daily driver? maybe find a way to commute together (as Nikki suggested)?

It really depends on a lot of things, but the price of gas here is only just on its way to to being where it is in a lot of other parts of the world so I am not sure that prices are going to be coming down any time soon. At least not to where they were before this current price hike.

Cassiopeia
04-22-2005, 12:36 PM
Let's face it, the real solution will be when we can come up with alternatives to using oil in our cars and trucks ... things like hydrogen or maybe electricity or maybe something more exotic than I can imagine. Even a better public transportation system would help. Federal support for rail right-of-ways might go a long way to bring that form of transportation back as a "people mover." Need to try something, that's for sure.

Either alternative fuels or at least doing like Brazil and bringing the level of ethenol (corn alcohol) up to 70 or 90%. Retuned engines run fine on this and it dramatically reduces the amount of oil needed by our cars and trucks.

I agree with DB on this one as far as long term solution.

In the short term, I get the impression that price of gas has more to do with OPEC nations and politics and less with gas companies. The people at the top set the prices for barrels of oil and the price is carried out to gas companies and gas station dealers, and so on. I have not done extensive research on the matter so I apologize if I am off base, but I don't see how boycotting exxon and mobile can affect the political web that determine the price of gas in these foreign countries.

Scarecrow
04-22-2005, 04:35 PM
I agree with DB on this one as far as long term solution.

In the short term, I get the impression that price of gas has more to do with OPEC nations and politics and less with gas companies. The people at the top set the prices for barrels of oil and the price is carried out to gas companies and gas station dealers, and so on. I have not done extensive research on the matter so I apologize if I am off base, but I don't see how boycotting exxon and mobile can affect the political web that determine the price of gas in these foreign countries.

The price of gas is determend by the supply of gas and the demand. The Oil companys keep the suppy as small as possible and hope for a large demand to raise prices. After they get the price where the want it we will have all the gas we want. It's happen twice before first time in 1974.

Cheyanne
04-22-2005, 06:05 PM
Does anyone else wonder if PF took over Boog for a moment? :D

Alternative fuels, IMO, are one of the ways to lower dependency on oil. There are already many alternatives developed, but it takes consumers to stop using what is convenient and seek out what is better not only on the pocketbook but on the enviornment too.

Cassiopeia
04-22-2005, 08:27 PM
The price of gas is determend by the supply of gas and the demand. The Oil companys keep the suppy as small as possible and hope for a large demand to raise prices. After they get the price where the want it we will have all the gas we want. It's happen twice before first time in 1974.

I think that oil prices are a lot more complicated than that when you include things like taxes, oil strikes, politics, no?

fredchabotnick
04-22-2005, 11:12 PM
I heard an interesting commentary on the prices on the radio. They were talking about the prices in regards to the gas shortages in the 70s. The speaker said that the main difference was that people took steps to lower the effect. They actually bought smaller cars. Not us, we need our SUVs. As long as we keep buying them, as a society, we clearly don't really care about the cost.
(me, I have a Saturn. I love my little plastic car)

Scarecrow
04-23-2005, 10:07 AM
Cassiopeia there are only a half dozen or so oil companys that own and run the industry, from pumping it out of the ground to pumping it in to your car. We have a Phillips storage depot about 30 miles away and you can see trucks from almost every gas station filling their tanks up there. The oil companies have even set the amount of oil to be pumped out of the ground. Back in the '70s they told us we would run out of crude oil in 20 to 30 years, yet today we are pumping more oil out of the ground than ever before and they tell us we have at lease 50 years more of oil. They want you to drive those SUV's so that they can fill their pockets.

Lilith
04-23-2005, 01:05 PM
Gas dropped 15 cents here over night...Now when it goes back up to $2.25 we'll not bitch because it's better than $2.30. They are so damn tricky!

Mae
04-23-2005, 09:45 PM
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