Gas Prices!

[WRC]

Got this in my e-mail....... not a bad idea.

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 million! s 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 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.


Sean</font color=red>

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[choppekx]

What gas stations do exxon and mobile own. I am sure they own parts of other companies especially since I rarely see exxon or mobiles anymore. Are they in with Shell, Cheveron-Texaco, Arco, Dimond, 76, . e.t.c.? I thought that I heard that exxon owned Cheveron, but I honestly have no idea.

Chris

[tkr]

I'm pretty sure Mobil and BP are the same.

Matt Nelson
Team Kwik Racing

[BradM]

BP/Amoco an Arco had a merger pending government approval due to a monopoly on the North Slope of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay if the deal went through. I believe Arco sold their interest on the slope to Marathon preserve the deal. Exxon/Mobil are the same. Chevron/Texaco are the same. I believe Shell was involved in a merger as well but I can't remember with whom.

All this crap about consumers manipulating the gas prices by boycots is BS. If you want to complain about the price of fuel start with the state of California. If our gasoline taxes weren't so exorbitant, our gas prices would be much lower.

[Kritter]

I may eat my words but gas will NOT go to 3 bucks a gallon this summer. Ask any legitimate economist.

Kris

"A signature always reveals a man's character -- and sometimes even his name. "

[JrSyko]

I agree Kris. No way will it go to three dollars a gallon. If it does, we will eat our words together!

[BIG_FAT_LOSER]

I feel if the do go higher we'll be punching holes in alaska again.

<font color=red>PAT KAPKO</font color=red>
<font color=yellow>Self appointed King of ghetto fab</font color=yellow>

[martininsocal]

guys- you have to realize that opec is really ** [I]¡Ay, caramba![/I]**** [I]¡Ay, caramba![/I]**** [I]¡Ay, caramba![/I]**** [I]¡Ay, caramba![/I]**** [I]¡Ay, caramba![/I]** when it comes to production. just because they supply it doesn't mean they are the only ones with it! the U.S strategy for at least 3 decades(on the national level) has always been to use the other guys oil. we have reserves, untapped sources, etc...the only real problem is Billary Clinton sold some of those to private industry, but they still haven't tapped into them. mexico, south america, and russia can kick opecs ass in production if asked. even africa has been surveyed and found to have larger underground sources than the middle east. why do we use the middle east? it has been somewhat reliable, politcally stable, and they haven't tried to ripp anyone off. it has always been show. the oil crisis in the 70's? purely economical gain. we never even came close to running out of oil, even 30 years later! what it did was create the oppurtunity to open new fields for future use and remind opec that they weren't the only show in town. the latest is purely profiteers trying to capitalize on the mideast crisis. kinda like the electrical farce of last year.

another real issue is the environmentalists would rather see us all living in caves heating with methane gas(from our asses) than driving cars and using electric lights. hell, theycan't even support windmills in the banning pass area because they make noise and scare animals and kill birds that fly through them. i don't get it...

martin

If your gonna go, go BIG

[scott]

I think exxon is a part of chevron....but I think a better way for the consumer to get even is to....Buy stock in oil companies, when the prices go up so does the stock, stock goes down then you win at the pumps again.....A win/win situation....

[martininsocal]

scott- you have missed much of the supply/demand economics class. haven't you seen all the incremental increases in the per barrel price vs the huge increases in the at the pump cost? every time a barrel of crude goes up 1cent, you will see a 3-5 cent increase at the pump. its the IGM mentality(I got mine!) and they all use the excuse for profits. here is a true stories that will blow your mind.

a few years ago, there were 2 refinery fires in california, if this had happened anywhere else, it would be no biggie, but since california requires designer gas that no other states use, it is refined here. there would now be a shortage of gasoline in california and local prices(statewide) began about a 25-30 cent increase due to the shortage. what the wholesalers, retailers, and refiners didn't bother to tell you was they just increased the amount of MTBE they put in the gasoline to make up the difference from the actual loss of gas, and made profit on top of a bad situation. the best part is, this is when MTBE really came to the forefront as a carcinogen and was now being proposed for elimination from gas as an additive. more money and more cancer, even the doctors will get rich off this scheme!

it is all about profit. the petroleun industry has been looping the system since the days they bought up the red line and tore out all the trolley tracks from socal. can't sell gas to trolley riders, but you sure can sell gas, tires, and cars to folks that have to commute to work from the valley! the electric company learned the scam just recently and low and behold, we plenty of unscheduled repair shut downs, etc... last year. amazing what that can do to the spot market! and wasn't it amazing how the breakdowns went from one supplier to the next? what a coincidence. and why wasn't the state inspectors aloud in to check on repairs and damage when these occured? maybe it was because saddam husein was making baby food in those places!

martin

If your gonna go, go BIG