Gas Wars! Here is an email suggestion PASS IT ON to all you know!

[sce56]

This is serious if we don't stop them they will put us all in the red! I predict $5.00 per gallon by July this might work if we really do it so please send to all you know! Today I heard on the radio KNXT the reason was a geopolitical problem not a supply problem but what they meant was if we NUKE Iran the supply out of the Gulf will more than likely be cutoff so it is more than just the boycott we need to write our leaders and demand they put a stop to the maddness from the white house starting a nuclear war in Iran will lead to WWIII! look here for a more direct approach
http://action.truemajority.org/campaign/dontbombiran?rk=T1%5fYfsY1IXrME

But I also like the boycott Exxon Idea it could rock them and they are the most deserving of all of them!
SCE KICK THIS PLEASE We can DU IT

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:19:15 -0700
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It's the best idea I have heard yet! Might work.



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 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 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 EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY
LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK.




Gary

[Nomad559]

1. Snopes

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

:)

[sce56]

2. And who runs Snopes?

I don't like the turkeys at exxon anyway they have yet to pay a single dime for the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska! I never buy from them unless I'm on empty and no one else to buy from!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lapfog_1]

3. How many times will we see this in the next few days?

Really, if you want to hurt the oil companies (and the oil producing nations) and help save the planet and save some money...
QUIT DRIVING (as much).

Telecommute 1 or 2 days a week.

Car pool.

Consolidate trips.

Move closer to where you work. (That's been my solution because I hate traffic and wasted time as well as wasted money).

Buy Hybrids now, insist on renew-ables in the next vehicle you buy.

Boycotts will not work against a resource monopoly, unless you can figure a way to use less (or none). Oil does NOT meet the basic criteria of a purely classical economic model. We don't "manufacture" oil. We find it, process it, and BURN it. And then it's gone. So no matter how high a barrel of oil becomes, it's not automatic that there will be new entrants into the market place to keep the price of energy near the same.

[HeeBGBz]

4. Arrgghhh

I hate that email.

So who can afford Exxon/Mobil anyway? I buy $10 worth of the cheap gas to get through the day.

[tritsofme]

5. This is so silly.

Right now gasoline flowing out of the refinery costs $2.20/gallon.

How are you going to get that price below cost?

[Divernan]

6. I buy at Citgo - support Chavez and his generosity to the poor.

nt

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. Anyone who thinks something like this would accomplish ANYTHING...

needs to put down the crack pipe and wake up to a few cold, hard economic realities. Such as: boycotting a single oil company's gas stations isn't going to impact the overall market; delivery of gasoline to gas stations from refineries operates pretty much on a just-in-time basis. This would just shift demand from Exxon/Mobil to all the OTHER oil companies, with no overall effect on demand or prices; and the oil and gasoline that Exxon Mobil would have sold will find their way to other buyers, not significantly affecting the price of oil (which along with refinery margins is most of the cost of a gallon of gasoline anyway; $1.30 a gallon is about as realistic as expecting to be able to fill up with spring water). This idea is economically naïve to the point of being simpleminded.

On edit: A total boycott of Exxon-Mobil would have the consequence of HIGHER gas prices, because it's an action that would create a constriction of supply lines (no-one buying Exxon gas means more demand for gasoline from other companies, with a significant reduction in overall delivery capability, means higher prices. Very simple economics.)

[DelawareValleyDem]

8. Let's do it!!

That way we can prove to everyone it will accomplish nothing and we won't have to see this posted anymore.