[Yhslug] Lest start a price war!

[flint at flint.com]

Greetings List Lurkers,

While I am capable of anything, I thought that forwarding a chain letter 
was beyond even my morality.  I was wrong once again.  Please consider 
the proposal below.

Regards,

Flint

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 00:37:02 -0400
From: TJFenner <tjfenner at comcast.net>
To: Smith Stan <ssmith at earthsciencesystems.com>, jsowers at tbegroup.com,
     jdanehy at danehycpa.com, Lindsey O'Connor <loconnor at tbegroup.com>,
     trandall at tbegroup.com
Subject: Lest start a price war!





This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one
of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton.  It's worthy of your
consideration.

Join the resistance!  I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a gallon by
summer and it might possibly 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 earlier!  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 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 2007, 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 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 sends it to at least ten
more (30 x 10 =3D 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x
10 =3D 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 eac h, 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</FONT>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 PRICESTO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.





"It is the duty of the Patriot to protect his country from its government"



-Thomas Paine