Gasoline Chain Letter, an attempt to lower gas prices

[Flu]

I know that posting chain letters is borderline retarded but this seemed like an interesting idea, I wonder if it could actually work. I've never seen anything actually when it comes to protesting and what not, but who knows.

I don't even drive a car, so whatever, I just wonder what you car drivers think about this idea.

This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It's worth Your consideration. Join the resistance!!!!

I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! 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 on and join with us!

By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is
super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 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 50 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (5 x 10 = 500) ... And those 500 send it to at least ten more (500 x 10 = 5,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over FIVE 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..... FIVE 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 500 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people....

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 500 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. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK!!!

[After Shock Media]

Posting chain letters that have been posted before several times leaves borderline retarded zone and goes way into a whole new area of special needs.

[Rebecca Love]

people need gas, they will always buy it.

[Flu]

Originally Posted by Rebecca Love

people need gas, they will always buy it.

that's not what this is getting at....

[Flu]

Originally Posted by After Shock Media

Posting chain letters that have been posted before several times leaves borderline retarded zone and goes way into a whole new area of special needs.

i need a helmet ;[

[vending_machine]

If you believe in this you are fucking stupid. OK?

[Heywood Jablome]

Originally Posted by Flu

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.

Here is the flaw in this logic. The other companies wouldn't have to lower their prices, because they aren't losing any customers. If anything, they could raise their prices because the demand on their pumps would be so much higher.

[stickyfingerz]

It would work if done on a large scale.

[Vitasoy]

You're just wasting your time.

[stickyfingerz]

Originally Posted by Heywood Jablome

Here is the flaw in this logic. The other companies wouldn't have to lower their prices, because they aren't losing any customers. If anything, they could raise their prices because the demand on their pumps would be so much higher.

Once exxon mobile drops their prices to an acceptable level at that point people would switch back to them. This would have to be done again each time prices start to go up.

[vending_machine]

Originally Posted by stickyfingerzdotnet

It would work if done on a large scale.

No (45678).

[Flu]

Originally Posted by vending_machine

If you believe in this you are fucking stupid. OK?

Well I guess that's the bottom line, with all that supported fact that you provided.

[Babagirls]

Originally Posted by stickyfingerzdotnet

Once exxon mobile drops their prices to an acceptable level at that point people would switch back to them. This would have to be done again each time prices start to go up.

1) the prices are sky high cuz its spring break

2) cheney is makin a killin off of it, like thousands of gas stock holders, its not ever gonna reach a "decent" price level (as long as hes in the house).

3) a chain letter would do nothing to change anything about gas prices.

[stickyfingerz]

Originally Posted by Babagirls

1) the prices are sky high cuz its spring break

2) cheney is makin a killin off of it, like thousands of gas stock holders, its not ever gonna reach a "decent" price level (as long as hes in the house).

3) a chain letter would do nothing to change anything about gas prices.

If you think Cheney is somehow controlling oil prices let me get you some tinfoil.

[Babagirls]

Originally Posted by stickyfingerzdotnet

If you think Cheney is somehow controlling oil prices let me get you some tinfoil.

hahaha i dont think that, but theres a whole circle of shit. and hes tied into it somewhere along the line (along with a bunch of other people/countries).