I'm not one to forward email jokes, chain letters and stuff - I've been known to kill many a chain letter; "Send this to 10 other people or you'll die tomorrow" type stuff, but this one piqued my interest.
I don't know how successful it would be, if any at all, but it's worth a shot. I don't mean to offend anyone (if you work for an oil/gas company) so if I do, I apologize in advance.
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THIS IS NOT THE "DON'T BUY GAS FOR ONE DAY" PROTEST, BUT IT WILL DEMONSTRATE HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO A REASONABLE PRICE.
This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gas prices going up, AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please.
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!
It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!!!
We need to take some intelligent, united action.
The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas .
By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $2.00 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently around $3.39 for regular unleaded in Dallas and climbing every week. The national average is $3.51!
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.
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.
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.
The gest of this is to send this note to 30 people. If each of us 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 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!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all!
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!
Do with it as you please. The caveat is that a retired Halliburton exec sent it to a retired Coca-Cola exec who forwarded it originally. He probably referred back to a marketing strategy they used in the mid to late eighties and applied some of the logic to this scheme. Remember when the original Coke was being replaced by a bad tasting NEW Coke? Sales of the remaining old stuff rose at a fevered pitch! They left Coke drinkers clamoring for the old recipe. When they eventually brought "Classic Coke" back, sales rose quickly and Coke regained the majority market share of soft drinks.
Happy motoring...
I don't know how successful it would be, if any at all, but it's worth a shot. I don't mean to offend anyone (if you work for an oil/gas company) so if I do, I apologize in advance.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
THIS IS NOT THE "DON'T BUY GAS FOR ONE DAY" PROTEST, BUT IT WILL DEMONSTRATE HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO A REASONABLE PRICE.
This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gas prices going up, AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please.
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!
It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!!!
We need to take some intelligent, united action.
The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas .
By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $2.00 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently around $3.39 for regular unleaded in Dallas and climbing every week. The national average is $3.51!
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.
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.
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.
The gest of this is to send this note to 30 people. If each of us 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 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!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all!
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!
Do with it as you please. The caveat is that a retired Halliburton exec sent it to a retired Coca-Cola exec who forwarded it originally. He probably referred back to a marketing strategy they used in the mid to late eighties and applied some of the logic to this scheme. Remember when the original Coke was being replaced by a bad tasting NEW Coke? Sales of the remaining old stuff rose at a fevered pitch! They left Coke drinkers clamoring for the old recipe. When they eventually brought "Classic Coke" back, sales rose quickly and Coke regained the majority market share of soft drinks.
Happy motoring...
