----- Original Message ----- From: <narybpullag@excite.com> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 10:44 AM Subject: Gas Prices > > We are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon gas by the summer, and it > might go even higher!! > > Do you want gasoline prices to come down? Then you, me, and all of us > 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 me. > > By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super > cheap. Me too. It is currently $2.15 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 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 two hundred and thirty people. But if > each of you send it to only 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 c! onsumers. > > 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 will it take to reach THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE? Well, if > each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within 24 hours of > receipt, all 300 MILLION people will be contacted within the next 8 > days!!! > > Now 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 (and it sure does to me), please pass this > message on. It certainly makes much more sense than just complaining abo! > ut > it and feeling powerless, that's for sure. > > Then just continue the boycott against Mobil and Exxon until gas prices > lower to the $1.30 (or lower) range. This really can work, if only > Americans > will get involved. Won't you? > > ===== > > SIMPLE TAKE ACTION REVIEW: > > 1. Do NOT buy gas from Mobil or Exxon. > 2. Send this to everyone on your list who buys gas. > 3. Encourage them to do the same. > > > What? You're still reading this? Stop. Send this email to your list > right now. > > And remember: NO Mobil, and NO Exxon. > > You can do this. > > ===== > > Still don't think this will work? Then just imagine if no one bought > from EXXON and MOBIL for just o! ne month, or even just one week! Get the > picture. This can work, and it will work, if we Americans will work it. > > So do your part. Do it now. Then boycott MOBIL and EXXON. Thank you > > PS: I'll do this simply because EXXON MOBIL is both directly and > indirectly responsible for massive environmental pollution. At least some > companies, like BP Petroleum, are facing up to the catastrophic problem > caused by green house gases and are investing millions in the research and > development of cleaner energy sources to help eventually wean us off > non-renewable, CO2 polluting oil. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com > The most personalized portal on the Web!