[Yhslug] Lest start a price war!

[Thomas Doggette]

Just say NO to forwarding things.

On 5/2/07, flint at flint.com <flint at flint.com> wrote:
> 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!
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> 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.
>
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> "It is the duty of the Patriot to protect his country from its government"
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> -Thomas Paine
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