OT, What else, gas prices

This may work if we can unite and be strong. Please pass it on to your friends and e-mail contacts. Thank you for your cooperation. Paul

> GAS WAR - an 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 next 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 $2.79 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 consumer s 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-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 EX XON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE
> AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK
> > Nicholas M. Michelli
> Presidential Professor
> Ph.D. Program in Urban Education
> The Graduate School
> The City University of New York
> 365 Fifth Avenue
> New York, NY 10016-4309
> Voice: 212-817-8252
> Fax: 212-817-1515

Sorry about the lengthy post.

A couple of things come to mind. One, pull our troops out of Saudi and tell them they're on their own when Iran comes charging them, our drop the price of the barrel, or let Denmark defend them.

TWO, the biggest bad guys in all of this are the guys on Wall Street driving the price up at the pumps through mere speculation about impending... I'm no fan of the oil companies, less a fan of the brokers being chauffered around and laughing it up all the way to the bank at our expenses.

Mark

The car won`t be used much when that trip over except to go to church. The pickup be used everyday here on the place. Guess I need to sell the cattle and start walking or maybe could get a bycycle built for two.

• Gas War Urban Legend

If we were to buy the same amount of gas a day just not from Exxon what would happen. We would hurt the mom and pop station owners; period....

The Exxon refinery that I load gas at has several brands. Shell; Exxon; Shamrock; Chevron; Unbranded; Citgo; ect. If you were to stop buying Exxon gas you would just buy another brand and I would still load it at the Exxon refinery and just deliver it to another station.
The same thing holds true for the Shell refinery 80 miles away.
Also refineries put gas on pipe lines that run all over the country. It may come from Exxon but by the time it gets to Maryland it may in fact go to a Shell loading rack.
So a refinery puts XX amount of gas into a pipe line and gets XX out. The difference is called EXCHANGE FUEL. In turn the company (Exxon) would either have to pay or receive cash for the excess.

So lets look at your plan..... .....
Stop buying all Exxon gas. Exxon will still buy oil and refine it into gas. They will still sell it at their loading racks and to the pipe line. In fact if Exxon stopped producing gas at its refineries there would be a major gas shortage and prices would rocket up.
So who did you hurt. Yes you hurt Exxon at the store level since they have many company owned stores but you also hurt all the mom and pop Exxon station owners. In fact you bankrupted them making less stations and giving other companies a monopoly allowing for price increases.

The only way to reduce gas prices (and I am sad to say it) is for America to explore other forms of energy so gas is not the only kid on the block OR by cutting consumption forcing a gas excess in the market. As long as we use SUV's and 4 door 1 tons to run to the corner store for a gallon of milk; and are more worried how we look in front of the neighbors than our bottom line gas will continue to go up.

But it might work. I don't know.
Gary