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I am boycotting gas Thursday. Who's with me?
11 Answers
- TedExLv 71 decade ago
Go ahead. If enough people boycott gas stations Thursday, They'll just jack the price up Friday and Saturday when everyone buys gas.
Want to do something that WILL work! One day a week, don't drive. Period. Stay home.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
dude that won't help read this email
This was originally sent by a retired Coc 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 wi th 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 conditined
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 imple to do! Now, don't wimp out at this point.... keep reading
and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions o f people.
I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten more (30
x 10 =3D 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =3D
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 friend s 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. (If you don't
understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10
people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am, so trust
me on this one.)
How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more peole
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, di d you?
Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass
this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR
PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.
THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
Source(s): THIS WILL WORK IF EVERYONE DOES IT!!! - 1 decade ago
If you don't buy on Thursday you'll be buying it on Friday or Saturday in the same amount. What is your point? You have to lower consumption entirely, not just the day purchased.
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- ZachLv 51 decade ago
It won't help.
The reason gas prices are so high is the fact that crude oil is near $90/bbl.
Go yell at OPEC if you don't like the gas prices.
- 1 decade ago
Boycotts are ineffective!!!!
USE LESS GAS!
Walk, ride a bike, carpool, use public transportation!
Transferring your usual purchase to another day does no good.
Lowering actual consumption should lower the price, but even if it doesn't it will lower the drain on your wallet
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Lol. People are such idiots.
The only way to get the price down is to use less gas. What day you buy it makes no difference.
- Uncle RedLv 61 decade ago
Ya ok Me I just got gas today...... It's pointless, you must REDUCE tha amount of gas U use silly Rabbit