MortgagesUndressed

I was sent this and thought it an interesting read. It is worth a try at
> least…
>
> Okay, this might work…worth trying, I cannot believe that we are now
> paying $3 @ gallon for gas! And in our paper just yesterday, Exxon
> Mobil’s
> profits for January to March was $9.3 BILLION!! I think we are getting
> taken up the ying yang! Debbie
>
> *Subject:* Gas Wars, TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS PLEASE.
>
>
> GAS WAR - an idea that WILL work
>
> This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from
> one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton.
> It ’s worth your consideration.
>
> Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a
> gallon by the end of summer and it might 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 has gone around before! 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 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.
>
> Of course we all have to buy gas at sometime from someone, simply buy
> your gas from any supplier other than EXXON and MOBIL.
>
> 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 each, then 30
> million people will have been contacted ! If it goes one level further,
> you
> guessedit….. >>>>>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 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 becontacted 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 PRICES TO THE $1.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.
>
> THIS CAN REALLY WORK.