ravnosdae ([info]ravnosdae) wrote,

Gas Prices Please Read


Its the end of summer and we are hitting close to $3.00 a gallon...
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!

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[info]autumnsfire

August 24 2005, 14:51:16 UTC 6 years ago

Except Exxon and Mobil have hold on many other gas companies, it'd be nice to know which ones if we were to do this :)

[info]ravnosdae

August 24 2005, 15:36:49 UTC 6 years ago

Yeah true. Guess we can look up on thier website.

[info]ironheadjane

August 24 2005, 19:47:18 UTC 6 years ago

This totally misrepresents the petroleum problem we're having. The problem is that we've past peak oil. We're getting to a point where it will cost more to EXTRACT the oil and refine it than the oil itself would be able to get back in sales. I don't think people understand that when oil prices reach $60-70/barrel, it's not just the gasoline prices that it influences, it influences the costs of goods that have to be trucked from point A to point B (California Avacados in NYC, for instance.) It influences how expensive it is to pave the roads, roof your house, fertilize your crops, run your farm machinery, manufacture plastics, etc. The OPEC nations have been promising to ramp up production for years, and while we'd all like to think it's some money grubbing conspiracy, what some scientists are showing is that they *can't* ramp up production because there's not a whole heck of a lot to produce.

The answer: recycle your plastic bottles, buy fuel efficient vehicles, use public transportation and hope that science finds a way to deal with life beyond petroleum. Chevron and BP are two companies that are trying to invest in new ideas to get past the peak oil crisis.

As for me, a person who has access to a car 24/7... I'm a pedestrian and a fan of public transit, and I'll remain that way.

But just think... life w/o petroleum... what will happen to LA?

[info]trueanarchy

August 24 2005, 19:53:38 UTC 6 years ago

honestly, there are lots of untouched oil fields.

"Peak Oil" is a buzz word.

Go research your oil drilling info.
Being that I have 4 uncles that drill for a living, (and I hear about this every thanksgiving-xmas-and 4th of July) and peak oil is like saying we are past the cream. Filtering oil is the same process as before, except they stop the lines every 4 hours for 20 minutes to change a filter.

[info]ironheadjane

August 24 2005, 20:05:33 UTC 6 years ago

Read "The Long Emergency" then talk to me.
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