Posted on 04/19/2002 7:43:17 PM PDT by randita
Disclaimer: I am in in no way a proponent of the following. It is sheer lunacy, but it is making the rounds on the web. Just wanted to give Freepers a heads up.
Viva La Risistance!
Date: Friday, April 19, 2002 5:55:32 PM
Join the resistance!!!!
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 some towns.
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 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 I 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.
I am convinced that these people are not born that stupid. They have to take lessons.
Good old Econ 101--what an idiot.
If you want to drive down the cost - drive less but don't boycott legitimate businesses providing employment for many Americans.
Turn your stupid boycott against the morons of the environment who see boogie men under every flower and tree and stop their assault on our right to exist.
NewMac
LOL! That was my first thought too.
Amen to that! Rather than dessiminating this stupid e-mail, the senders should train their sights on Daschle and his cronies who thwart every effort to make our nation's energy independent of the Middle East.
I don't believe I know you. But if you think I am irrational then I probably don't want to know you. Your next message to me will be rejected. Good bye and happy paying.
PS. I think I saw the same email last year too.
If half the people who read the e-mail paid heed, it might cause maybe a nickel's worth of price differential between Exxon/Mobil and everyone else, with E/M going down 3 cents and everyone else up 2. Once the price differential reached a nickel, however, motorists would start going to E/M because they had the cheapest gas, thus causing the E/M price to stabilize or rise with everyone else's.
Even if there were a complete boycott of E/M and their prices dropped 50 cents, this would not in any way induce other companies to lower their prices because the boycott would mean they would not be in competition with E/M. The only way E/M's reduction of prices would have any effect on anyone else's prices would be if customers were leaving other stations for E/M, but if that happened E/M's prices would quickly rise to near their previous levels.
Prices reflect scarcity, and you can't eliminate it or remove government distortions of the market with such nonsense. But hey, be my guest and try. You sacrifice will be appreciated... sucker. :)
Pure simplicity - I pump $20.00 into my F-150 regardless of the price. There! Take that! Twenty bucks is all yer gittin from me!
Hey, lets start a chain letter or something!
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