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Heather Kudela

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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.



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



 
I don't buy gas from those two anyway... they always charge more that Citgo/Hess/Valero/Cumberland Farms... you name it...
 
I quit buying from Exxon back in the Valdez days. I'll stop buying from Mobil too now, but I don't know if it will make any difference.



 
Exxon/Mobil isn't even in our town. Maybe Oklahomans refused to pay their prices. I buy at Murphy Oil. They probably buy their gas from Exxon/Mobil, but I don't care, because it is the cheapest gas in town.
 
gas in my area is already 2.89 it is going up on average 4 cents in the morning and 4 cents at night; every day. You can't tell me these stations are emptying out that quick. I buy from independant stations no telling where they get it from but I will not buy from the other 2.
 
Heather,

I'm sorry, but that plan has already been shown to be a failure and would not work anyway.



Exxon/Mobil will just sell their gasoline to other companies. The other oil companies will make more money, but that does not necessarily mean that Exxon/Mobil will loose any money. Even if they did temporarily lower their prices, as soon as demand increased, they would continue to raise prices back up to the same as everyone is charging.



Heck, Exxon made so much profit last year that they could survive for years if they never sold a gallon of gasoline at their service stations, and the only one who would get hurt would be the gas station owner.



The only way to eliminate some of the pain associated with higher gas prices is to buy stock in Exxon/Mobil. That way you get a small cut of their $30 Billion profits. You may not make enough money to off set all the future gas price increases, but it would be a good investment since very few businesses make $30+ Billion dollars in profit in a year.



...Rich
 
So, at $71/barrell for crude today and gasoline prices expected to be at least $3.50/g this summer, is Ethanol still too costly to produce to compete with gasoline refined from crude?



I really don't think so!



TJR
 
The only way to lower the price of oil is to quit buying goods made in China. thay are one of the biggest reasons why the costs of oil and metals are skyrocketing.



Just don't shop at stores that sell the majority of goods from China.



Pretty simple..isn't it?





Tom
 
China is buying all the surplus gas on the market.(makes me wonder since most of the vehicles in China are owned by the state...and a lot of them are painted green.) Oil is a supply and demand thing, when the demand goes up...so do the price, economics 101. Something to think about, there hasn't been a new refinery built since the 70's. Everytime a new refinery is proposed, the enviromental left starts filing lawsuits, and get the sierra club, ete,ete going...so the proposal is tied up in court. and how about the boutique fuel mixtures that are mandated by the EPA. Certain areas of the country has to have a certain blend. the refineries have to shut down to switch to the new blend for each area of the country. If nothing else, we all have the same kind of fuel, or if necessary summer blend and winter blend....not the east coast blend, the south blend, midwest blend, (chicago area gets it own blend, that is why the prices there are the highest in the country normally)california blend, southwest blend. Y'all get the picture. That would stop the disruption in the distribution system.



Y'all have a good one



Bob
 
Buying goods from China puts money in thier hands. With that money, they compete with us in buying goods like oil and steel. That drives the price up.



We save money by buing cheap items made offshore. We spend that money we saved on other things like the extra cost of metals and fuel.



We scream about gas prices, but do nothing to change it.



Next summer (Summer of 2008) expect fuel to be at 4 to 5 bucks a gallon.



Walmart isn't the only ones that sells Chinese goods.





Tom
 
Caymen,



WalMart is the biggest single retailer responsible for the largest portion of the China/America trade deficit.



Yes, we are fueling China's growth through our consumption, but I said in another thread that I think it is in both our current and long term interest in "investing" in China in this way.



I know you don't agree Caymen.



I have no problem with gasoline going to 4 or 5 dollars per gallon next summer (2007, BTW). We might finally start paying more what the rest of the world is. We like to complain that other countries don't pay us what we think our products are worth, well isn't it hypcritical for those same people to complain about our gas prices when the rest of the world pays so much more?



TJR
 
You are right, it is 2007. I thought I corrected it, but I guess I didn't.



I get sick and tired of people complainging about the price of gas. We have no choice but to pay it. Nobody has invested in a good, note I said good, public transportation system in the USA. If we had one, I would be more then willing to use it.



I spent three months in Germany in 2001. it was great to walk out of the hotel, walk 500 feet and get on a tram. It was faster to take the public system then it was to drive our van. Unfortunatly, where we were working, we needed the van to haul our inspection equipment around. When we werent going to and from work, we used the public system. It was simple to use and worked great.



The majority of the public systems in the USA are poor, at best.



I know there is an investment in China that is supposed to pan out some day. When, that is a different story. It is going to get worse as time goes on. As a world power, the USA must keep on it's toes to prevent another country from getting too much power. if, and when, that day comes, we are going to be in a rough way.



I just hope I am not going to be around to see it.





Tom
 
Still, Caymen, regarding public transportation systems in the US, most major cities have pretty good ones, but we here in the US have something most European countries like Germany just don't have...SPRAWL...and lots of it.



Don't expect a bullet train in Ohio anytime soon! <wink>
 

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