Lower_gas_prices wrote:

> Don't know if this will work...but I don't want too pay 1.42 a litre!!!!
> Worth a try!!

1.42 per litre. That sounds like good news. Perhaps now we'll see less SUV's on
the road.

Pars

>
>
> 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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