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post this up but i got a email regarding gas prices, here it is: I hear we are going to hit close to a $1.42 a Litre 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. 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 it and join with us!
>By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $.80 a
>litre
>is super cheap. Me too! It is currently .78 to .89 depending on what
>day it is,for regular unleaded gas in Montreal, Qc. We all know that
>we're
>being screwed by the oil companies. Does everyone remember how they
>drove up the prices way past a dollar and got the gas prices to
>where
>they wanted them, claiming there was a shortage of oil.
>Well, there isn't any shortage now, and the oil is more abundant
>than
>it was 35 years ago when the price of a litre of gas was 29 cents!!!
>Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us
>to
>think that the cost of a litre of gas is CHEAP at $0.78-$0.85, 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 cant just stop
>buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act
>together to
>force a price war.
>
>Heres the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY
>gasoline
>from the two biggest companies (which now are one), PETRO CANADA,
>SHELL.
>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 PETRO CANADA and SHELL buyers. Its 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!!
>
>I am sending this note to at least 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!
>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, lets 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 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
>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.
>PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $0.64 OR LESS
>RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK!!!!!!!
>PLEASE take a few minutes and pass this on to everyone you know!! If
>you can't e-mail it to at least ten people, please print out a bunch
>of copies and hand it out to your family and friends!!
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