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A Plan That Just Might Work


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Posted by Dick L on September 01, 2005 at 07:09:11 from (209.210.233.220):

To save time, bottom line is don"t buy from Exxon or Mobil for many weeks,
>read if your work is ahead of schedule.
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>Subject: gas
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>This sounds like a plan:
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>Subject: Gas
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>Rumor has it we"re going to hit close to $3.00 a
>gallon by the end of the year and it might go higher!!
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>Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take
>some intelligent, united action.
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>Phillip Hollsworth, offered this good idea:
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>This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don"t buy gas on
>a certain day" campaign that was going around last
>April or May!
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>The oil companies just laughed at that because they
>knew we wouldn"t continue to "hurt" ourselves by
>refusing to buy gas.
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>It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a
>problem for them.
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>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!
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>It is currently $2.43 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 market place....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!
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>And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
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>HOW?
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>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.
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>Here"s the idea:
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>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.
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>But to have an impact, we need to reach literally
>millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers.
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>It"s really simple to do!!
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>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!!
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>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!
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>If it goes one level further, you guessed it.....
>THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
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>Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people.
>That"s all.
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>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.
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>If this makes sense to you, please pass this message
>on.
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>PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE
>$1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN... THIS CAN REALLY
>WORK.
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>Lori P. Stokes, CISR
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>Commercial Auditor
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>North Carolina Reinsurance Facility
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>P.O. Box 176010
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>Raleigh, North Carolina 27619-6010
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>919-582-1026 direct
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>919-783-0355 fax
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>lps@ncrb.org
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