Let's take control of control the oil companies!

[Launch Pad]

Gas prices are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the end of 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 $2.75 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 (sic) 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 and DON"T purchase ANY gasoline from EXXON and MOBIL. 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 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!

[bee]

1. Ive already told everyone I know

ONLY buy Citgo! :bounce:

[Extend a Hand]

2. peak oil!!!!

this is a problem of demand outstripping supply. Rationing gas by price is to ration on the backs of the poor. Gas should be rationed in a more equitable manner. Simply reducing the price will only exacerbate the coming crisis.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Exactly...

If the price of gas dropped to $1.30 the day of reckoning will come sooner...

I have done alot of reading and concluded as I am sure you have that oil always be available but at prices so high they will be inconsistent with economic growth....

The challenge is to reach a price that discourages consumption, encourages exploration for alternative sources of enery, without wrecking the economy...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. It's The Oil Not The Gas...

The price of gas is a function of the price of oil and since we produce precious little oil realtive to our needs we have very little say in the matter...

[eallen]

5. LMAO. If the religious right are the bane of the GOP....

Those who pray at the altar of magical economics are the bane of the Democrats. Go ahead. Do this. I don't own one share of Exxon-Mobil. But I also know that this won't move the price of gasoline or oil one penny. Even if everyone in America were to follow suit. (Hint: If Exxon-Mobil is pushed entirely out of the retail station business, and its franchise leases are bought -- or just rebranded! -- by BP, Shell, and Citgo, what has changed from the consumer's perspective, other than the name on the sign out front?)

Really, the wisest consumer action -- both for its effect on the market, and its personal effect -- is simply to cut gasoline and energy use. Walk to the store. Carpool to work. Turn up the air conditioner. Etc.

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