Gas thread again ... repost : Why not attack the biggest compagny

[Doctor Dre]

Affecting the profits of the big compagnies for 2 days in a row won't do shit ... you'll just buy more gas 2 days later...

it's a very long term loss for the biggest compagny :

http://www.kittystrips.com/blog/?p=24

Pay $1.50 FOR GAS


EVERYWHERE?READ ALL OF IT?its not that hard guys?we have hundreds of great companies out there including BP?Shell?say goodbye 2 Exxon and Mobile

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 $2.75 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.

?its not that hard guys?we have several reliable gas companies out there including BP?Shell?just say goodbye 2 Exxon and Mobile?it will work!

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 (sic) 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 and DON?T purchase ANY
gasoline
from EXXON and MOBIL. That?s all.

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

[Doctor Dre]

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[Dollarmansteve]

lol. yeah.. cause exxonmobil (which is actually ONE company) wouldnt be able to resell their gasoline to other retailers. Please, take one course in microeconomics.

[dready]

good luck with that

[hydro]

im too lazy to even pump my own gas how the hell am i gonna tell 10 more people?

[CDSmith]

I posted this exact post here about 2 years ago... there was some guy here who's family owns and runs about 70 gas stations in the USA, he lost it on me saying how unfair this plan would be etc. :D

Personally I think it's a great plan, and now that Canadians are paying over $1.00 a liter maybe more of us will wake the hell up and consider it.

'course if you're happy watching the price of gas rise and are happily forking over the bucks for it you'll do nothing.

Whatever.

[StatsJunky]

Supply and demand won't allow this to work! If you do some research on supply and demand you will see how this would fail.

I would explain it but my brain is fried at the momement.

[Thumbking]

Dre, I live near you, it's 1.02$ around my area right now...

I fucking despise the fact oil companies are taking us for a ride... fuck them

In the last 2 months I've only bought MAYBE 100$ in gas... I do anything I can too not have to buy it... Fuck them , I'll ride a bike everywhere if I have to just not to support their greedy fucking ass'

shame is most ppl are to lazy for this shit... they always give in

[Pipecrew]

I think alot of people may share my view, and this is why none of this stuff will work.

1) When I need gas, I get gas, if Exxon is one block closer then shell to me, I go to Exxon and Vice Versa

2) I dont care if it hits 2 dollars a litre, I need gas, I fill up my car.. I'am not going to start taking the bus or walking everywhere.


Yes they are conditioning us, they always wait until people are complaining at 1 dollar a litre, then they jump it to 1.75 for a week and people freak out, then they drop to 1.25/litre, and everyone is like "yay cheap gas again"