2007-Apr-28 - Gas Prices :(
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
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 i mpact 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
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 at this point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people.
I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =3D 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =3D 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group 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. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am, so trust me on this one.)
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
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.
:)
Comments
2007-Apr-28 - Untitled Comment
Posted by homesteadinthemaking
I am game. We have been buying ours from WalMart anyway just to get it .03 cheaper anyway. I haven't seen a lot of posting from you in a while. You've been missed.
Blessings,
Trixi
2007-Apr-29 - Untitled Comment
Posted by gokings13
We have painted ourselves into a corner on this one, in the name of 'Environmentalism'. If we would just take a couple of acres in Alaska, or Texas or our other oil rich states and drill and refine our own oil, we wouldn't be owned by the Arabs.
And for all those that 'hate the war' and say that we are only over there for the 'oil'.........Give me oxygen! If that's true, SHOW ME THE OIL!!! :-)
We have dug on own graves on this one.
Sickening.
Laura
2007-May-2 - Untitled Comment
Posted by ApplesofGold
This is a good idea. I have already started boycotting both of those companies due to an email I recieved several months ago.
I love the kitchen prayer you have posted in the entry below! Holly
2007-Jun-2 - Gas prices
Posted by snowbird
Sounds like a good idea to me. We live in a small village and there is not much here to choose from but Mobil. I have to travel a ways to get gas at any other station. I have already decided to make the trip to avoid the rising prices of food in this area, I guess while I'm making the trip for food, might as well get gas, too. I just think that we're doomed anyway!
