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30 Aug 2005, 07:05 pm
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AVOID Major Oil companies!
Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:04 PM 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 $2.43 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 market >> place....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 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. That's all. >> >> 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. >> >> PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE >> >> $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. >> >> THIS CAN REALLY WORK. >> >> Kerry Lyle, Director, Research Coordinator Interventional Cardiology >> Research Laboratories Division of Cardiovascular Diseases 932 >> >> Ziegler Research Bldg >> >> 703 South 19th Street >> >> University of Alabama @ B'ham >> >> hmmm...might be worth a try, folks....nothing else has worked... Get on >> board???? >> >> The most beautiful things in the world are not seen or touched. They are >> felt with the heart The novelist George Eliot once said that "it is never too late to become what you might have been."     
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30 Aug 2005, 10:25 pm
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Re: AVOID Major Oil companies! Here we go again.....
(drivel snipped) > >> > >> University of Alabama @ B'ham > >> > >> hmmm...might be worth a try, folks....nothing else has worked... Get on > >> board???? > >> > >> The most beautiful things in the world are not seen or touched. They are > >> felt with the heart > > > > > The novelist George Eliot once said that "it is never too late to become what you might have been." > > > Must we see this every year? Exxon and Mobil sell their gas to more than just their stations. Where do you think the mom and pop get theirs from? Bottom line is you will not, i repeat, will not hurt the oil companies in any way short of using less gas. There are record numbers of suv's and luxury cars still being sold so it will be a fruitless effort until that stops.
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08 Sep 2005, 06:50 pm
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have seen this yearRe: AVOID Major Oil companies!
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:05:27 -0400, "Ralf" <xstream@highstream.net>
wrote: This is the dumbest post I have seen this year! Take a basic course in economics, please! > >Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:04 PM > > > > > >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 $2.43 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 market >>> place....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 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. That's all. >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE >>> >>> $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. >>> >>> THIS CAN REALLY WORK. >>> >>> Kerry Lyle, Director, Research Coordinator Interventional Cardiology >>> Research Laboratories Division of Cardiovascular Diseases 932 >>> >>> Ziegler Research Bldg >>> >>> 703 South 19th Street >>> >>> University of Alabama @ B'ham >>> >>> hmmm...might be worth a try, folks....nothing else has worked... Get on >>> board???? >>> >>> The most beautiful things in the world are not seen or touched. They are >>> felt with the heart > > > > >The novelist George Eliot once said that "it is never too late to become what you might have been." > > > > > >
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