Gas Wars!

[super851]

This is very interesting and I believe it will work. I'm sorry about the spamming right now but I think that we need to get a hold on this before we are paying $3.00 plus per gal. I myself have tried the smaller gas stations and to be honest I could not tell a difference in performance of my vehicles; bikes or cars. An added note to this is if you have a vehicle that requires less gas then use it, if you don't then plan your trips so that you can save gas by doing this you cut the amount of times that you will have to pay a visit to the gas station thus causing them to notice a drop in profits and re-think their gas prices.
JUST DO IT. FORWARD TO EVERY ONE.
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> A pretty simple plan to take the power back. I'm in.
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> Read on....Subject: GAS WAR!
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>Join the resistance!!!!
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>I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer. 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.
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>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.
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>Please read it and join with us!
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>By now you're probably thinking gaso line priced at about $1.50 is super
>cheap. Me too! It is currently $1.60 for regular unleaded in my town.
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>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.
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>Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gaso line
>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.
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>It's really simple to do!! 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
>friend s each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! 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. (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.)
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>How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email 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 I 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. PLEASE HOLD OUT
>UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN .
>THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

 

[phatjoe]

PREACH!!!

 

[Dangerously]

... and soon the net will be clogged with more useless spam...

 

[hooken203]

Did you know that when you go to a gas station that is not branded then you dont know where the gas comes from.It could come from any of the refineries so they still get your money.
Iam all for the lower prices just dont see that working.

 

[Tiresmoke]

This one floats around a lot whenever gas goes up. www.snopes.com debunks this hoax email:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/gasout.htm

Origins: Ah, springtime!
The season for a number of important renewing rituals: housecleaning, the beginning of baseball season, balancing eggs on their ends, and the forwarding of outraged e-mails calling for oil company boycotts.

This year's litany is the usual one: Gasoline prices in the USA are too high; gasoline is a unique commodity whose price isn't subject to the usual market forces of supply and demand; OPEC and greedy American oil companies have deluded us into believing that current gasoline prices are actually comparatively cheap while they secretly manipulate the market to keep prices artificially high; and a simple boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline will rectify all this. (It's amusing that calls for "gas outs" predictably occur every spring, just when gasoline prices start to rise with the increased demand that accompanies the better driving weather of spring. Why don't those evil oil companies, who can apparently control the market at will, conspire to jack up their prices during winter, when prices bottom out?)

It is true that the gasoline market in California is particularly volatile, generally resulting in higher prices there than throghout the rest of the USA, because:


California is the second-biggest gasoline market in the world, outranked only by the United States as a whole. (California alone consumes as much gasoline as all of Japan.)

All of the state's refineries, running at full capacity, cannot meet California's one million barrels per day consumption, requiring the importation of more expensive product to meet consumer demand.

Since 1996, California has required a cleaner-burning formulation of gasoline which is produced at few refineries outside of California.

The four largest oil refiners in California produce almost 80% of the gasoline supply, and the six largest refiners operate about 85% of the retail gasoline outlets.
All of this makes California particularly susceptible to price increases whenever the gasoline supply is disrupted due to factors such as crude oil production cuts by OPEC nations or problems that temporarily shut down refineries. In fact, however, gasoline prices will probably be lower this summer than they were in 2001 and 2000, and they'd likely be even lower if it were not for a couple of disruptions to the supply of crude oil: Iraq's cutting their oil exports (to protest Israel's military actions in the West Bank) and political unrest in Venezuela (one of the largest exporters of oil to the USA).

Oil companies can manipulate their prices somewhat by controlling how much gasoline they produce and where they sell it, but they can't alter the basics of supply and demand: prices go up when people buy more of a good, and they go down when people buy less of a good. The "gas out" schemes that propose simply shunning one or two specific brands of gasoline won't work, however, because it's based on the misconception that an oil company's only outlet for gasoline is its own branded service stations. That isn't the case -- gasoline is a fungible commodity, so if one oil company's product isn't being bought up in one particular market or outlet, it will simply sell its output to other companies:


Economics Prof. Pat Welch of St. Louis University says any boycott of "bad guy" gasoline in favor of "good guy" brands would have some unintended (and unhappy) results.
. . . Welch says the law of supply and demand is set in stone. "To meet the sudden demand," he says, "the good guys would have to buy gasoline wholesale from the bad guys, who are suddenly stuck with unwanted gasoline."

So motorists would end up . . . paying more for it, because they'd be buying it at fewer stations.

And yes, oil companies do buy and sell from one another. Mike Right of AAA Missouri says, "If a company has a station that can be served more economically by a competitor's refinery, they'll do it."

Right adds, "In some cases, gasoline retailers have no refinery at all. Some convenience-store chains sell a lot of gasoline -- and buy it all from somebody else's refinery."

A boycott of a couple of brands wouldn't result in lower overall prices: Prices at all the non-boycotted outlets would rise due to the temporarily limited supply and increased demand, making the original prices look cheap by comparison. The shunned outlets could then make a killing by offering gasoline at its "normal" (i.e., pre-boycott) price or by selling off their output to the non-boycotted companies, who will need the extra supply to meet demand. The only person who really gets hurt in this proposed scheme is the service station operator, who has almost no control over the price of gasoline.
The only practical way of reducing gasoline prices is through the straightforward means of buying less gasoline, not through a simple and painless scheme of just shifting where we buy it. The inconvenience of driving less is a hardship too many people apparently aren't willing to endure, however.

 

[Kento-Moto]

Gas here in Nor-Cal is now up to $2.05 for reg

 

[TIMMYDUCK]

{paying 1.69 per } HELP ME MR BUSH

 

[WWJD]

This one floats around a lot whenever gas goes up.  www.snopes.com debunks this hoax email:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/gasout.htm

good call TS. there ought to be new terminology invented like "SnopeSlap":

IE: My parents emailed me again about email taxation so I SNOPESLAPPED them

 

[Tiresmoke]

Duck: Yeah... you know, since we fought apparently fought this war for oil and everything gas should be free by now, right?

WWJD: snope-slap... I like that one. I think I'll help you spread the word by using it from now on.

 

[justintime2]

This one goes around all the time. Bottom line, people like to bitch but will not do anything. Good luck.

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[Big O]

$2.29

Still cheaper than Europe I guess.

 

[tbonebusa]

yawn...... not again......