| Don't know if this is true or not, but I am thinking it may well be worth a try..Join the resistance!!!! We hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer and it might go higher!! 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 $2.19 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 = 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. (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. 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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Do you think
just waiting will have an effect? We must travel 50 plus miles each and
every workday. We don�t go any more often. We stay home on weekends
and don�t visit anyone. I remember living inside the city and liking
that I could always take the bus but we can�t do that now. OPEC is
talking of $80 a barrel on oil and that�s a lot higher that projected.
Would it do more good that folks look to not taking vacations. Not
visiting relatives when they would have. To spend a bit more on phone
visits and such. To write more letters and send a home video or CD for a
special occasion. It does little
good to not buy something on a given day of the week. That means you�d
buy early and later but you�d be buying the same. There has to be more
ways to save money on traveling. I remember how long ago I could go from
Denver, Colorado to Abilene, Texas on a tank of gas. Doesn�t work the
other direction since that would be uphill. (Quit laughing) Yes, I did
have a VW and couldn�t very well get over 50 mph in the first place
and I was broke. I wouldn�t suggest stopping at closed gas stations
and draining the hoses like we used to do since the pumps are more high
tech now. But traveling at lower speeds uses less fuel. But it would
be interesting to collect some tips and hints for how to save. Just
think, in Hawaii, they pay over $8 a gallon for gasoline. We have oil
pumps one per ever 20 acres of space yet there is not one drop sold
locally. The last gas stations that did had to charge a little more and
no one would spend any extra. Even the refineries sit idle. All the
people working in the oilfield have long since moved on to other
professions. It makes us wish we�d been looking toward the hybrid and
electric cars more seriously for the last 10 years or so. I am surprised
there isn�t more talk about building another pipeline to Alaska. The
original didn�t harm the environment and is now needing to be
replaced.
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