Gasoline Prices!

[Guest guest]

By now Americans are probably thinking that gasoline priced at about $1.49is cheap. It is now $1.58 for regular unleaded where I live in Florida.Perhaps where you live it already costs more. In New Zealand the price hasrecently reached $5.00 per gallon.Now that the oil companies have conditioned us in the USA to think that thecost of a gallon of gas is cheap at less than $1.50, we need to attempt aconcerted defensive response to their concerted price gouging. With theprice of gasoline reported to be likely to keep going up everywhere,consumers need to start taking concerted action NOW. But what action can wetake that would be effective?The only way consumers can make an impact is by not buying. But, that's notreally a practical option since we all have come to rely on our cars.But there IS a way that we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all acttogether.Here is the simple and doable idea. For the rest of the year 2001, justdon't purchase gasoline from the biggest gasoline company in the world. Thiscompany is comprised of two companies --- EXXON and MOBIL. Theyrecently merged into one company to form the largest oil company in theworld. But their gas stations, in the USA at least, are still using the twoseparate names. When Exxon/Mobil sees that they are not selling anygasoline at all they will get a strong message from the consumer and theywill be inclined to lower their price.But, for this plan of consumer defensive action to have a real impact weneed to get this message out to literally millions of gasoline users. Thisis readily doable by email. I am sending this letter to at least 10 peopleand to this health forum. If each of you send it on to at least 10 more . .. and those 10 send it to at least 10 more . . . and so on . . . then by thetime the message reaches the sixth iteration we will have reached over onemillion consumers of gasoline.Acting together on this idea we can make the oil companies feel the immensepower of the consumer. This is doable and worth doing. The sixth iterationcould happen in just one week or less.If you decide to go along with this email communication plan, please do twothings for the benefit of your friends to whom you are going to send thismessage.First, if your internet service provider's email program provides for it,put all the email addresses in the blind copy (Bcc) area of the addressboxes. That way you won't be sending everyone a long list of other people'semail addresses.Second, don't "forward" this message. Instead, show consideration forsubsequent readers by highlighting this whole email message with yourcursor, then hit <Control> <C> to place the whole text on your clipboard.Then copy this message from your clipboard into the message area of a newemail message by hitting <Control> <V> . This will send a clean copy of thisemail message to your friends --- without the annoying ">>>>>s" on everyline.If this consumer defensive action makes good sense to you, then please passthis message on to ten people, or some more if you wish. However, if youprefer, write your own note and send it on to ten people.Let's make it our goal, starting right now, to not buy any gasoline at allfrom Exxon/Mobil until the price of regular gasoline at an Exxon or Mobilgas station in the USA is down to $1.29 per gallon. Those living in othercountries may wish to set a different price goal. THIS CAN WORK, if we allstick to the same goal and all focus on the biggest oil company. Gasconsumers unite!===============================