Don't know if this will work...but I don't want too pay 1.42 a litre!!!!
Worth a try!!
I hear we are going to hit close to a $1.42 a Litre by the 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 $.80 a litre is
super cheap. Me too! It is currently .78 to .89 depending on what day it
is,for regular unleaded gas in Montreal, Qc. We all know that we're being
screwed by the oil companies. Does everyone remember how they drove up the
prices way past a dollar and got the gas prices to where they wanted them,
claiming there was a shortage of oil. Well, there isn't any shortage now,
and the oil is more abundant than it was 35 years ago when the price of a
litre of gas was 29 cents!!! Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations
have conditioned us to think that the cost of a litre of gas is CHEAP at
$0.78-$0.85, 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 cant just stop buying gas. But we CAN have
an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.Heres
the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the
two biggest companies (which now are one), PETRO CANADA, SHELL. 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 PETRO CANADA and
SHELL buyers. Its really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp out on me at this
point...keep reading and Ill explain how simple it is to reach millions of
people!!
I am sending this note to at least 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, lets 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!!!
Ill bet you I 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 $0.64 OR LESS
RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK!!!!!!!
PLEASE take a few minutes and pass this on to everyone you know!! If
you can't e-mail it to at least ten people, please print out a bunch of
copies
and hand it out to your family and friends!!
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Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing
Faculty of Mathematics
University of Waterloo
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