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Having some control over gas prices...

I hear we are going to hit close to $1.00 a litre 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 69.9 cents a litre is super cheap. Me too! It is currently 76.9 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 Litre of gas is CHEAP at 69.9, 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 PETRO CANADA & SHELL). 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 Shell and Petro Canada 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 sends 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. 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 MIILLION 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.

what are your thoughts on this boys?

 

First of all. I am already paying $1.00/L for gas and man does it blow anus gunk.

Second of all gas companys will laugh this idea off too...

The best idea is to go around pulling the ol' sugar in a gas tank trick on hundres and thousands of cars and then blaming the gas companys for using crappy gas on account of the expensive crude oil prices. Now that's a plan...

Grab a bag of sugar and follow me!! LOL!!

 

hmmm that just might work man

 

well i only get gas from chevron or petro anyways, so shells out fo the question. but i dunno about petro, sometimes its the only choice.

 

this idea is like 6 months old .. i heard about it a LONG long time ago !!

good luck . i only gas up at chevron anyway

 

why Petro Canada? Exxon (Esso) and Chevron are both far larger

 

same here, i only get gas at petro or chevron

 

My brother sent me that email before last summer. A good idea but takes alot of organizing and commitment. I only go to Chevron so we can all boycott everything else.

 

I have only gone to Chevron for the past 6 years....and prices have only gone up......something tells me this doesn't work

 

There are so many reason as to why boycotts don't work.

Try doing an internet google search into this subject - it'll be able to explain the details as to why.............I won't bother getting into them.......look yourself......

These idea's are not new and they just plain don't work...............I thought everyone would have known that by now.......