GAS PRICES-What you can do

[mikeg]

I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the end of summer. Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some inteligent, 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 by gas. It was more of an incovenience 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$2.52 for regular unleded in my town Bossier City La. 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 purchading 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 togather to force a price war.
Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gosoline 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 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 (sic) out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!! I am sending trhis note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30x10=300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300x10=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 thes 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 and DON'T purchase ANY gasoling from EXXON and MOBIL. 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 300MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the nixt 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 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ THIS!!
mikeg

[crappieseeker]

It sounds reasonable, but if what they are saying is somewhat true, then how could it work. If its costing more to produce it and the supply is low, then they will sell their oil to the other oil companies who then in return will keep the price high on the every day consumer. Or they will just go out of business, and the others will have made the money.

[Gar-Getter]

they will lower their prices long before they will go out of business

[crappieseeker]

I have seen many companies go out of business rather than lower prices or increase wages. Whatever is hurting them, they will cancel out one way or another. They sometimes file for bankruptcy protection. Like I said, if the supply is low, other companies will buy their oil and resell it, I've seen it in business.