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How to Avoid $3.00 a Gallon 
Gasoline Prices

The email came in from a friend in Eugene.  Bear in mind that oil companies are no more greedy than you are.  (Have you ever turned down a raise?) Neither are they stupid.  They know the basic rules of supply and demand, and so are fully aware that $3.00 a gallon gas will cost them income, not increase it.  The prime guilt here must be laid at the doorstep of government  policy, including taxation, and decades of liberal lockdowns on exploration and development in North America.

The idea that an oil company would like to sell less gasoline  is ridiculous.  The idea that they are all conspiring together to do it is beyond ludicrous.  The only people who want you to be priced out of your SUV and forced into high-density housing and public transportation work for the Sierra Club or government.  Every one of them is a registered Democrat.  The big oil companies want more people driving more cars more miles, not the other way around.  Higher gas prices produce exactly the opposite of what they want.

The oil companies are, therefore, third down in the rank of villains who are ripping you off.  Remember, too, that the approach suggested below will affect more than just a few bigshot oil executives.  Most of the people who work for those companies are just average Joes and Janes.

Nevertheless, this approach could have some interesting public relations effects.  300 million people demanding lower fuel prices would give the present Bush administration some heft as it tries to get liberal elements in congress out of the back pockets of the greenie terrorists. If it worked that way, on the off chance that this effort is really an attempt to damage those who would, if they could, make America less dependent on OPEC, the net result could be the opposite of their intention.

Now for the email, itself.  
 
 

 We are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon for gas by this 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.(California) 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 pocket book 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 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!!!

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.

John Akers, California

If you like this idea, copy the message above and send it to your entire email address list.  As we've said, it fails to blame the key people who are responsible, and will temporarily hurt some people who don't deserve it, but in the long run might cause some positive change.  LL  
 


 
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