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"GAS WAR - let us start one!"
So many articles online and offline about gas prices. Here is one of the letters found:
"----- Original Message -----
From: 'Roy Elder' <elroy@cebridge.net>
To: undisclosed-recipients@cebridge.net
Sent: Sun Apr 16 9:34
Subject: Fwd: GAS WAR - let us start one!
Subject: GAS WAR - let us start one!
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 this 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.
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 30 people. If each of us 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 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. 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"
