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Posted by jf on 3/02/04

Just thought I would share....

Subject: Fw: GAS WAR!

I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon 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
$1.50 is super cheap.
Me too! It is currently $1.97 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 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 =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 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. (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 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 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 $1.30
RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK.


Kerry Lyle, Director, Research Coordinator
Interventional Cardiology Research Laboratories
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
932 Ziegler Research Bldg
703 South 19th Street
University of Alabama @ B'ham
Birmingham, Al 35294-0007
Phone: (205) 934-6163
Fax: (205) 934-7360

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