-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I copied this from another website and I thought I would share it with everyone: As a rule I do not send out large mailings like this......however......for this I will make an exception. It just cost me 30.00 dollars to put 18 gallons of regular gas in my car at a Mobil station. Subject: Join the resistance! I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer. anticipating 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 $1.97 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 whimp 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 about 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 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. PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK. :Brow:
I believe this can and will work IF there is enough people who support it AND if they/we do so long enough. I doubt that will happen at least the first time it is tried. However I am willing to do it but in my case I rarely buy from Exxon Mobile anyway. Ongoing e-mail support and followup would also be required to keep people from forgeting and staying involved. I also think a national starting date would help. The only other concern is that if you get that many people are involved is that Exxon Mobile will be very aware. Lastly who else does Exxon Mobile sell to and or what brand names is it sold under.
You'd have to get A LOT of people in on this to make a single ding in Exxon's proffits. We tried lots of things over here, including a "strike" by truckers. They blockaded the main fuel distribution depots and blocked our main North-South highways (the M1 and M6 for those who know the country) Their main beef was that French truck companies were filling up in France where diesel is cheaper and coming over to the UK and undercutting prices forcing UK hauliers out of business (mainly in the south) The strike lasted about a week and it crippled the country. After day 3 nothing was moving anywhere. If I was a terrorist (or the French planing an invasion) I know all I gotta do is blow about 8 fuel depots and the country grinds to a halt in just 4 days. Well, we were about a day or so away from the Army going onto the streets. The truckers let a few loads of gas go out to hospitals to keep the ambulances on the roads. We had an emergency rota drawn up at work and they were saying we had to drain our tanks and give our fuel to "priorty" users in the department. The truckers gave in, I think a secret deal was done so they can offset some tax or something. This was what 2 years ago? Now gas is about $7 a gallon here.
It would work if you could rally people to actually do it. Or, to not fill up, but just buy enough to get by. That's what I usually do, until the price drops I don't fill up. I'm concerned that if Premium really does get as expensive as they predict it may put the brakes on driving the Riv to Ohio this August. :ball: It could cost over $500 in gas alone to make the round trip! We shall see.
I thought Osama said we're stealing all of the oil from Iraq. ...shouldn't the prices start dropping any day now??? o No: I guess not.:ball:
We were going to drive across the country to visit my mother in the nursing home in Reno and be a part of Hot August Nights the this summer, but I think we will have to change our plans. The oil companies have been trying for a ling time to get gas prices over $2 a gallon, and they won't quit until they do. As long as Cheney is in a position of power in our government things will not change anytime soon.:bglasses:
Interesting idea, but it reminds me of getting $1,000 from M$, Disney, et. al. for forwarding email. Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about the idea itself, but the possibility that it may be just one of those emails designed to spam.
Kinda tough for me with my company gas card for Mobil. 2001 F150 takes $40 daily. The other thing is Sunoco, Shell and Hess are all the same price as Mobil/Exxon here. I find it easier to use my Mobil Speedpass than taking out the credit card to pay too. Maybe because it's linked to my checking account or because of sheer American laziness. Paul
Gas prices are super crazy. I never forward anything, but I did actually copy and paste that and send it out. Jacob
I never have or will buy gas from Exxon or Amaco. Not just because of this boycot but because they are the number one companies crushing cars for polution credits. I have only bought Shell and Citgo as I have not heard of any such programs for these companies. So you can count me as one more.
It could work, but usually too many deadbeats who wait for others to do it for them.....I am curious what the oil companies are planning now that hybrids are on the way in real numbers, and they will make inroads very fast....anyone see that mitsu eclipse concept car?? 200HP gas engine with another 200HP electric rear motor and another 70 hp electric front motor in an awd sports car??!! I predict the prices will go up even faster, as sales slow, prices go up to keep the margin happening...everyone will match them because they all work together to screw us over. later Tim
TimR, " I predict the prices will go up even faster, as sales slow, prices go up to keep the margin happening...everyone will match them because they all work together to screww us over." I used to subscribe to that concept. But they why has it not worked in reverse. ie the SUV, Pick up & high performance trend over the last few years has us as a nation using way more gas than in the early & mid ninetys but gas did not drop because of volume.
Vern, I believe the prices have not gone down because they will never go down. The oil companies are not in the consumer satisfaction market, they work in the money, money, money industry. Obviously, if we use more gas at the same price, they will make more money. And every extra .03 to the gallon they can squeeze is more profit. I don't believe there is any supply and demand cycle in the oil industry and I think this is why the prices will never drop. I honestly think that if we woke up tomorrow morning and gas was $3.75 a gallon everywhere, people would still buy it, and I would still buy it. I suppose this "strike" of sorts may work, but there is really nothing anyone can do about it, unless gas became a government regulated industry, which will most likely never happen because of the money the government itsef makes off of gas sales and this whole "free enterprise" system our country suddenly finds itself in:grin:. I realize that may be an obvious statement to everyone, but I thought I'd share anyways. As a side note, my earth space science (blow off class) teacher told my class a story last year of a '71 Electra his friend bought back in 1971 from a Buick dealer with an experimental carb that supposedly his friend got 27 miles to the gallon with. The story continues somewhere to the ideas that the oil companies threw a fit to the point where GM quit producing their new carb. Jacob
Well thats true but inflation has been brutal too, and demand has gone up as you said, but the companies lower output to keep the price high....and once the hybrids start taking over, their sales will slow no matter what they do (bacause people don't need gas anymore) and they'll have to jack the prices higher t keep themselves stinkin rich. maybe i'm way off bas etoo, who knows???LOL I can pretty much predict the price will never go down...even when ti drps, its never as much as it went up and the trend is ever higher. have you ever noticed when the price of a barrel of oil goes up, the gas price at the pump goes up right away...but when the barrel of oil drops in price, the price at the pump stays high for a long time before slowly dropping??? they got us. Simple as that. just like natural gas and water, they can charge whatever they want because you have to heat your house, you have to drink and eat, and you pretty much have to drive. later Tim
Sorry guys, I'm gonna keep buying from ExxonMobil. Every time I fill up with gas from anywhere else (besides sunoco) I get crap gasoline. It's worth the extra money to me. ExxonMobil and Sunoco seem to be the only gas stations with any sort of quality control around here. -Bob Cunningham
Well guys, maybe this will cheer you up. Over here in the Netherlands you would have to pay about $5.43 for a gallon:ball: :ball: :ball: :ball: Believe me; drivin' a car with a thirsty engine doesn't make fun anymore, no matter how nice a car it is (or you would have to make a lot of money a work). But I like the idea of boycotting the biggest firms. Take care
If we would all start driving cars that get at least 40mpg for our commuting, and watching how much gas we use, it would put a serious dent in how much gas we use as a nation. Think of it this way: if you currently drive a car (like all the cars we own) that gets 20-25 mpg, and you started driving a car that gets almost double the mileage, even for commuting only, it's easy to see how much less gas we would use. Here's an idea. You can decide whether it's a good or bad one... Give each citizen of driving age a gas ration per year. That enforces personal responsibility. If you want to enjoy your classic gas hog, you know that you had better go out and get a Honda civic or motorcycle for your commuting so you can save enough to enjoy your hobby car. Race cars for off-road use should be able to still buy race fuel, since at more than double the price of regular gas most people couldn't afford to abuse it. I'm no environmental freak or anything, but unless we start paying attention to the problem, it will eventually turn around and bite us (us meaning US- car lovers). Sad, but true. T
