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Dear friends & Group,

It is rumoured that 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, this is a plan that can really work.
Please read it and join with us!



We all know that we're being controlled 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.




Here's 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 simp! le 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.




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!!!!!!!

The concept of boycotting particular gasoline retailers or wholesalers has
never worked and will never work, because the entire market is responding to
the laws of supply and demand. With the burgeoning of auto markets in China
and India, good luck with controlling demand.

If you want to pay less for gasoline, buy less gasoline. Trade for a more
efficient car or drive less, or both. If you can't or won't do that, at
least spare us the crackpot ideas.

Mike

"Michael Pardee" <michaeltnull@cybertrails.com> wrote in
news:b4ydnWt8Mvpbz8bfRVn-ug@sedona.net:

> The concept of boycotting particular gasoline retailers or wholesalers
> has never worked and will never work, because the entire market is
> responding to the laws of supply and demand. With the burgeoning of
> auto markets in China and India, good luck with controlling demand.



Even more than that: Oil companies regularly sell base stocks to each
other. If one has a glut, they will sell it on the open market.

Boycott one brand, and the others will pick up the slack and experience an
INCREASE in demand.

If anything, a boycott of the sort promulgated by the OP could result in
HIGHER prices as the non-boycotted suppliers bid up spot prices in an
attempt to fill the sudden change in demand caused by the boycott.


>
> If you want to pay less for gasoline, buy less gasoline. Trade for a
> more efficient car or drive less, or both. If you can't or won't do
> that, at least spare us the crackpot ideas.
>


And crackpot it is. Also crackpot is the notion that they are sudddenly
making a killing on gas and are "controlling" prices.

It's true that, for instance, Exxon has increased their net by some 13%
over the last complete fiscal year (from an 8% margin to 9%), but they
don't "control prices".

An interesting link, sort of relevant here:
http://www.aip.com.au/pricing/oecd.htm


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