Gas prices!

i know we all wish we could be driving elec. or other alternative fuel cars, but as of right now, we are kind of stuck with the gas guzzling cumbustion engine.
anyway, i just got this email and wanted to share with all of you.

GAS PRICES!

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 w ill 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 $3.49 for regular unleaded in my town, Seattle.

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.
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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 literal ly 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 lea st 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!!!
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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

My family quit buying gas from Exxon/Mobil two years ago. I would walk twenty miles past one of their stations each way with an empty gas can rather than help them have another $10billion profitable year. If I didn’t live so close to the headquarters, I would start a www.banexxonmobile.com website and post bumperstickers all over my car. Down here, that would probably get me shot.

[QUOTE=hobbes28;2233]My family quit buying gas from Exxon/Mobil two years ago. I would walk twenty miles past one of their stations each way with an empty gas can rather than help them have another $10billion profitable year. If I didn’t live so close to the headquarters, I would start a www.banexxonmobile.com website and post bumperstickers all over my car. Down here, that would probably get me shot.[/QUOTE]

its not much better for me since i live right by citgo HQ (i can see the buildings from the main road by my house)

im in and im sending it to my other budys aroud 25000 of them, got to love Forums
Joel

With petrol costing nearly £6 a gallon, and £6.50 for diesel in the UK we need to get the same thing going over here…and quick.

It’s strange as we have the cheapest fuel within the EU before the gov puts their tax on, then it becomes the most expensive.

[QUOTE=vlady;2115]i know we all wish we could be driving elec. or other alternative fuel cars, but as of right now, we are kind of stuck with the gas guzzling cumbustion engine.
anyway, i just got this email and wanted to share with all of you.

No, you’re not necessarily stuck. I purchased my 2007 Zenn electric vehicle (EV) in January. Most of my driving is local, so my gasoline powered vehicle is relegated to out-of-town trips. The result? Gasoline purchases have been reduced by 75 percent while the cost for recharging the batteries in my EV is running an average of about $8 per month.

Go to www.zenncars.com for further info on the Zenn. :slight_smile:

[QUOTE=voltsrus;3119][QUOTE=vlady;2115]i know we all wish we could be driving elec. or other alternative fuel cars, but as of right now, we are kind of stuck with the gas guzzling cumbustion engine.
anyway, i just got this email and wanted to share with all of you.

No, you’re not necessarily stuck. I purchased my 2007 Zenn electric vehicle (EV) in January. Most of my driving is local, so my gasoline powered vehicle is relegated to out-of-town trips. The result? Gasoline purchases have been reduced by 75 percent while the cost for recharging the batteries in my EV is running an average of about $8 per month.

Go to www.zenncars.com for further info on the Zenn. :)[/QUOTE]

Another glorified golfcart. It is feature packed but 25mph? I wouldn’t expect highway speeds but 25mph will not keep up with urban traffic.

[QUOTE=lazzer408;3242][QUOTE=voltsrus;3119]

Another glorified golfcart. It is feature packed but 25mph? I wouldn’t expect highway speeds but 25mph will not keep up with urban traffic.[/QUOTE]

You should have done a little more research. My Zenn will cruise at 37 mph. This is an upgrade that is accomplished with software alone (no need to purchase a bigger motor or whatever). The software, including data cables, is about $62. I’ve been driving it that way since mid-January and have experienced no problems (the motor does not overheat, and it just keeps rolling along).

For further info, go to:

http://www.electric-cars-are-for-girls.com/speed-up-your-zenn.html

…and it is far more than a “glorified golfcart”. You should take one for a test drive. :slight_smile: