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Subject: off topic: Gas wars fight back
From: WattPhun@aol.com
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 18:58:44 EST
Subject: I received this and I believe it is worth a shot 
Read on....Subject: GAS WAR! 
Join the resistance!!!! 
I hear 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 $1.97 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 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. 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. PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY 
LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY 
WORK. 
Kerry Lyle, Director, Research Coordinator 
Interventional Cardiology Research Laboratories 
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases 
932 Ziegler Research Bldg 
703 South 19th Street 
University of Alabama @ B'ham 
Birmingham, Al 35294-0007 
Phone: (205) 934-6163 
Fax: (205) 934-7360 






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