My grandmother sent me this and I thought it would be a good idea but I don't have many people in my address book to email it out too.  So I thought maybe.  But if this not appropriate then I'll remove it with my apologize.  But  I think its a good idea and could possibly work if enough people do it.

Jace


> THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT
> WILL SHOW YOU
> HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $1.30 PER GALLON.
> 
> This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive.  It
> came from one of
> his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton.
> If you are
> tired of the gas prices going up AND they will
> continue to rise this
> summer, take time to read this please.
>  
> 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!
> 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. 
>
> 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 $2.00 is super
> cheap.  Me too!  It is currently $3.49 for regular
> unleaded in my town, Seattle.
> 
> 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 30 people.  If each of us
> 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 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 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 $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.  THIS
> CAN REALLY
> WORK.
>  
> 
>   Please
> keep this going...

*sigh*

This has been around forever. It doesn't work. The only way to actually lower gas prices is to reduce consumption of gasoline across the board. People keep trying to come up with simple solutions that don't actually affect their lives, but if you want something to change, you're going to have to actually make a sacrifice. Only buying gas from selected companies doesn't change the amount of gas consumed. It's supply and demand.

I usually support the idea of a business thriving from genuine sales, but the oil companies make billions of dollars of profit every quarter, just because they can. Pure profit, past the overhead. It's insane. They'd still make tons of profit if they sold to us at $1.00 a gallon, but they won't do it.....

*is sheepish*  Sorry.  I didn't know.  *slinks away and hides quietly in a corner*


lol

We can always go back to the horse and buggy :D  Or We could take all the cars, suvs, trucks etc.. off the roads and make everyone drive golf carts :D