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Here is This


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. (I'd be happy with $2.00)

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 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 thou ght 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 $3.46 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 acti on 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!


(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 $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

Keep it going, send to all your contacts.

Thank you.



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I'd love to take part in this. But they never work.

Too many people would see the longer line at the other station across the street and NO ONE in line at Exxon and choose Exxon.


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I've seen this one before, even when it was posted a few years ago it didn' t work..... obviously it didn't work we're paying over $4 a gallon

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That, and as soon as the Exxon station dropped 5 cents under the rest, everyone would go there and the next day it would be right where it started.




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I'd have to figure out which of our gas stations get their gas from Exxon and Mobil since none of our stations are named Exxon or Mobil.  hmm  We have Shell, Sunoco, Speedway, BP, and Admiral stations here. 

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All of our stations here have Sinclair signs on them.



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Holy cow Web; Sinclair is still in business??  When I was a kid, we had Sinclair stations here....I remember they used to give away prizes after you purchased so much gas from them.  We got a couple of blow up Sinclair dinosaurs, 3 plastic tee-pees, (these were pretty good size; me and my 2 brothers could fit inside one and play) and I think my mom and dad got drinking glasses and stuff like that from them.  I'm not sure anymore how their giveaways worked, but I think you got a card and they either stamped it or punched it each time you purchased gas. 

That's a blast from the past.  biggrin

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They are not really "Sinclair" branded stations. They are privately (or chain) owned stations, but carrying Sinclair brand of gas. So, its like a "Pump and Pantry" chain station with a small "Sinclair" sign too.

One of them "Trotter's Whoa and Go" does the punch card thing. When you get your card full, you get a pizza from their little kitchen. Their pizza used to be really bad, but now they have "Hot Stuff" brand food items and they are pretty good. So at today's prices, after about $700 worth of gas, you get an $8.00 pizza.

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Like in the movie Sooper Troopers where if you pump 10 gallons of gas you get a free hot dog so his tank held 8 gallons and he pumped the other two gallons into the trash can so he could get his free hot dog. laughing.gif

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Wow, that's a whole lot of pessimism for one thread! laughing.gif

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