I was forwarded this email today and thought it was a good idea. Although I believe in using renewable resources, this might help for now:
GAS WAR - an idea that WILL work
This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive It came from one of
his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It's worth your
consideration.
Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by
next 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 on and
join with us!
By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap.
Me too! It is currently
$2.79 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?
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 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 30 people. If each of us 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 group 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!!!