>NEW GAS WAR - a new 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 the end
>of this 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 $3.59 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 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
>sends it to just 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. (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 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
>TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN
>REALLY WORK.-- For this is the great terror of our
>day, that physicians separate the soul from the
>body. Plato
