I was on facebook the other day and I was invited to a group that was organized to try and stop the rise of gas prices. I was slightly interested at the fact that people think they can really control the market so I looked at a few of the entries. One person said we should all stop buying gas from exxonmobil. This is was they wrote...
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 next summer 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 $2.00 is super
cheap. Me too! It is currently $3.05 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.
Try to buy from like Kangaroo, BP, Phillip's 66, or Q-Gas.
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 400+ people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (400 x 10 = 4,000) ... and those 4,000 send it to at least ten more
(4,000 x
10 = 40,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth
group of
people, we will have reached over FOUR MILLION consumers.
If those four million get excited and pass this on to ten friends
each,
then 40 million people will have been contacted!
If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... FOUR 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 400 million and all you have
to do
is send this to 10 people....
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 400 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 $2.00
RANGE
AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
Keep it going
That's what the creator of the group said. There are over 2000 responses to this guy. I found it quite interesting. I just laughed. Basically, we should all just drive less, but realistically, people are too dependent on cars.
If you have facebook and are interested in checking out this group search "Amazing new way to lower gas prices!"
5 comments:
Okay I've received so many emails and facebook group invitations to things like this but i don't believe any of them can work. There are so many, and there's no way a significant number of people will cooperate. Even if they did I wonder how much of an impact it would make. Everyone would just have to continue buying gas the next day. I dunno, I'm extremely skeptical. I think I'll go bike shopping instead haha.
I was invited into this group... i read some of the comments i wanted to know how many of those people actually buy less gas.
I kind of laughed when I saw this group too. I don't think there is any way that all of the people that join this group will all cooperate, or buy less gas, or whatever they want to do to lower gas prices. I agree with you in that people are just too dependent on cars for there to be any significant change in prices. Our society really does depend on gas today.
Would this affect the market?
How does this market work?
Great application, Sam - now, go one step further. What would this market do?
I got invited to this group, read the thing, and couldn't figure out how it would work? Wouldn't we just put the two biggest gas companies out of business, or cause their smaller locations to shut down and end up having to pay more since there is less competition now in smaller towns like ours?? I've noticed it's better to buy gas in janesville than in a place like cambrige. I think that's probably because in cambrige there's only 2 gas stations, (and ones like, torn town now?? so maybe just one?? i dont know the deal on it) but anyway! Their gas is always a lot higher than fort because they don't have as many companies or choises on if they're goint to kwick trip, BP, stop and go, Shell, or Citgo, or mobil.
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