On 3/02/04, jf wrote: > 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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