Gas prices? We have heard this before

[Bones1]

I received this e-mail today and it is yet another try at making the little people count in an endless supply of big buisness' strong arming us.

Believe if you will but this is not the solution though it made me think. If you need to boycot a certain buisness boycot all the sister companies as well maybe it'll work. But I really doubt it.

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I hear we are going to hit close to 80 cents a litre by the summer. 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 it and join with us!

By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about 62.5 cents a litre is super cheap. Me too! It is currently 69.9 for regular unleaded in my town. (Rural Manitoba or Winnipeg, also most areas of Alberta)

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a Litre of gas is CHEAP at 65.9 or 67.9 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 Petro Canada & Shell). 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 Shell and Petro Canada 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 email 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 AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

YOU KNOW THEY LOVE HOLIDAYS AND SUMMER TRAVELERS.

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Jim

omg not another forward! make it stop!

they come out with this crap every summer, when gas goes up. didn't get the email about how gas will be outragous when 9/11 happened? and funny thing is people atuaclly think others are doing it.

[Warthog]

*throws hands up in air*

whatever

[nunyadam]

I don't buy from them to begin with.

[Bones1]

Thank you for taking my post seriously *cough*. The point I was trying to get across is that we as a consumer is we have no control of what is going on.

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We are all drones in someone elses world and we get ideas pounded into or heads of what life should be and we accept that. I'm just a single individual and I beleive that we have no control of our lives, but what if we all started thinking for ourselves?

It would be chaos everyone doing different things not confomining to the norm. Act a certain way do everything the same as your neighbor... Not happining.

As Wart says *Throws his hands up in air* that's what we all do. Throw your hands up and think "Well that's the way it's been done that's the way it shall be".

I'd like something different 'cause I'm getting sick and tired about conforming to the norm.

/end rant

Had some built up rage

[krusty the klown]

I'd like something different 'cause I'm getting sick and tired about conforming to the norm.

Modern turbodiesels

(but it won't happen in the US whilst the fuel companies are still selling rotgut diesel).

But they don't want you to drive something that returns 40/gallon

[Sweeper]

All I can say is if I forward that message to my friends, more than likely all of them will hit the "delete" button. Not that it's a bad idea, but this happens every summer, holiday, etc. They can do pretty much what ever they want, and unless we ride bikes or walk there isn't a whole lot we can do. Sorry to say. I will send it out, but I don't expect to many forwards beyond me.

[cadetstimp]

Got a similar e-mail but it said Mobile and Exxon...

[osprey4]

Of course, the whole idea is bogus.

You cannot decrease demand overall just by shifting it from one company to another. So let's say we all stop buying from Exxon-Mobil and Shell. It just drives demand and prices up somewhere else. The other fallacy is that the big refiners only sell to their own dealers, which is not true. Many independent stations buy from E-M, Hess, etc. So if you only buy from the independents, you may still be buying from E-M.

John

haha yeah sweeper i don't really seeing a whole family riding there bikes to crackle barrel or olvie garden on a main road on friday night. Or all jumping on the bus.