This is in an email i got, and for some reason i thought i would post it on here. Also thought i would add chevron to the mix. 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 three biggest companies (2 of which have combined) Chevron, 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 Chevron, 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 Chevron, EXXON, and MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
I'm crying inside, I really am. http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=100174&highlight=exxon http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=100330&highlight=exxon http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=100153&highlight=exxon and moving further back http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=82250&highlight=exxon http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=82318&highlight=exxon Same email, diffferent numbers. http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=81877&highlight=exxon Over two years ago. http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=38673&highlight=exxon And for a slightly different take. http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=14375&highlight=exxon http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=14557&highlight=exxon My intent is not to offend or upset everybody. Just to make people think (and search) before posting a random chain letter they recieve in their in box.
and where are the non-'Big 3' oil companies going to get the oil/gas to make up for all the extra demand that's going to get shifted onto them? seriously, would you play one of those shell games on a random street corner? think about it: "have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75". i haven't seen <$2.00/gal gas this year. i haven't seen it since last summer. this 'idea' is over a year old already and it hasn't accomplished a damn thing, nor could it. you want a solution? that will work? allow new refineries to be built. allow drilling in the Great Lakes, off the FL gulf coast and in ANWR instead of outlawing it. either that or buy a bike. :spank: prices only respond to two kinds of stimulus: supply (which is being squeezed very tight by new Chinese and Indian demand at the global level and by the US Fed and State .govs closer to home) and demand. everybody keeps prancing around like it's their god-given right to have all the oil products they want at the same time they do everything in their legal power not to allow any oil production/refining to occur here. TANSTAAFL - stop making laws against it or stop complaining when the price goes up
I agree, the only way it will go down (the prices) would let the supply get higher than the demand. The thing is as soon as one station lowers their price people will flock to them and buy. . . . Even if it is $0.05 cheaper.........................
Hurray, another thread on this subject. Maybe we should make it sticky - or better yet, open a new forum just for it. Now, when Bill Gates or Disney do their next email test and want to give me money for forwarding an email, I'm in. I mean, why wouldn't they? The email makes sense.
truli, truzi has convinced me! i'll soon be a millionaire ... i just gotta wait for that next chain email. :laugh:
Alright another can of worms has been opened, I just hope nobody calls this guy an idiot\sucker like they did me. :grin:
I have a good idea-force the federal gov to create regional US refineries-lets say six to ten new ones around the country This would lower gas prices-why is it not being done? I mean other than W is in the White House.
Squeezing the Big3 may not work but boycotting one might - I haven't bought gas from Mobil and then Exxon/Mobil since the valdez accident Is it working yet ? uzzled:
Best idea yet - get out of your car and onto a bike... Although I actually take a bus, the last two weeks I was assigned to our lab that doesn't have a normal bus service. I hate when I have to drive to work! I've managed to reduce my yearly mileage to around 6000 just by riding a bus and working a 4/10 schedule. Plus, even if something like these ideas would work in theory - it won't happen in practice. Just ask anyone how those ebay boycott's worked a couple of months ago...
force the federal gov to create regional US refineries-lets say six to ten new ones around the country and WTF is wrong with allowing oil companies to build these refineries? if you'd get the lawyers and the green faggots and the EPA the hell out of the way ... it just might happen. :af:
Wow, that was one of the dumbest ideas ever. I realize that people believe that the oil that exxon pumps out of the ground is sold at a station that has an exxon sign over the pump. But this is not reality. For example. All of the oil pumped out of Prudhoe Bay Alaska by all of the different oil companies is mixed together and piped down the same pipeline, shipped on the same tankers and probably refined at the same refinerys. They arent really affected by where you buy it. Only one thing will drive the price down, as has been stated earlier in this thread. Drill for more oil. Tell the Treehuggers to pound sand, just not oil sands..........lol.
GO BOB GO!!!!! That is the basis of it. Eco-weenies everywhere, screwing up stuff for everyone. There's also a problem with speculation - what we need to do is create an agency that will control the supply of money, through borrowing it into existence, and fluctuating the interest rate. We can call it "THE FEDERAL RESERVE". They are not federal - and they will have no reserves. :rant: Oh, wait....... Invest in LEAD. It's the currency of the future. Signed, A bitter American clinging to my guns, religion and ANTIPATHY!
There's also a problem with speculation - what we need to do is create an agency that will control the supply of money, through borrowing it into existence, and fluctuating the interest rate. i actually wonder if the devaluation of the dollar is not intentional. due to the policies of Nixon and Carter ( which have been continued by every subsequent president including, sorry to say, Reagan ), China and the OPEC nations have spent the last 30 years leeching off of our fat. to the point where the only thing propping up the current account balance is the purchase of T-bills by foreign governments. having the US gov declare debt to foreign nations to be null and void would have huge consequences, up to the possibility of war. but what can the other debt holder nations do if the US devalues it's currency? a weak dollar would also be a boon to US manufacturers attempting to export and would help lower income US workers compete with foreign nationals as well as dissuading illegal immigration. this, of course, would never even be intimated as a national policy. just as it would never be admitted that the strategic goal of Iraq is to provide a killing ground where we can eliminate murderous lunatics at will and to provide us with forward bases from which to leverage Iran, Pakistan and Syria.
