Monday, June 4, 2007

Gasoline Prices - Fight against the Prices

I received an email today and thought I would include my friends in on what is being planned by some fellow frustrated individuals who are tired of paying almost $4.00 for a gallon of gas while the companies are having their stock prices have risen from $65 a share to $84 a share in one year for Exxon Mobil. While Chevron and BP have had similar rises. It is ridiculous the price of gasoline today and I thought I would share this unique boycott idea with all of you. If we all work together we just might be able to get the gas companies to lower the price of gas and one of the best ways to do that is to create a gas war. Here is the email:

I heard about this movement over the week-end and here it was in my e-mail
>this morning!!
>It sounds logical, and I guess better than sitting here just complaining
>about it.
>
>THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW
>WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $1.30 PER GALLON.
>
>This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of
>his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the
>gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time
>to read this please.
>
>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! It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!!!
>
>I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by summer (we're almost
>there) and
>it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take
>some intelligent, united action. 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 $3.45 (Tomahawk 5/29/07) 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 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!!!
>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 e-mail 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. I suggest
>that we NOT buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES AND KEEP
>THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

I think it is in all of our best interest to try it and see if it works, which means we have to buy our gas at other places besides Exxon and Mobil gas stations. But I think to be really effective, we might even want to find some of the smaller stations and use them instead. Good luck and hopefully we will get the gas prices back down to a reasonable level.