a great idea if it works
30-Mar-2004, 06:21 PM
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a great idea if it works
Having some control over gas prices...
>I hear we are going to hit close to $1.00 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 **.9 cents a litre is super cheap. Me
>too!
>It is currently 83.5 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 Litre of gas is CHEAP at **.9, 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 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
>Shell and Petro Canada gas buyers. It's really simple to do!! Now, don't
>wimp 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 about thirty
>people. If each of you sends 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. 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 AND KEEP THEM DOWN.
>THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
>YOU KNOW THEY LOVE HOLIDAYS AND SUMMER TRAVELERS
>
>
>Lionel Dearling
>Enviro Packaging of North America Inc.
>Regional Sales Office
>Tel: 705 760 9339
>Fax: 705 750 0580
>
>Web: www.enviropackaging.net
>
>I hear we are going to hit close to $1.00 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 **.9 cents a litre is super cheap. Me
>too!
>It is currently 83.5 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 Litre of gas is CHEAP at **.9, 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 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
>Shell and Petro Canada gas buyers. It's really simple to do!! Now, don't
>wimp 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 about thirty
>people. If each of you sends 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. 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 AND KEEP THEM DOWN.
>THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
>YOU KNOW THEY LOVE HOLIDAYS AND SUMMER TRAVELERS
>
>
>Lionel Dearling
>Enviro Packaging of North America Inc.
>Regional Sales Office
>Tel: 705 760 9339
>Fax: 705 750 0580
>
>Web: www.enviropackaging.net
>
30-Mar-2004, 06:23 PM
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30-Mar-2004, 11:22 PM
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besides that, it's stupid.... Shell and Petro Can don't control the world marketplace for crude oil, nor do the control OPEC.
it might make a small difference, except their budget is large enough to not care... they can post losses for years and then recover when everyone forgets about this stupid idea and gets used to paying $1 a liter... or $2 or $5. Whatever... the smart thing to do would be to not go invade oil producing countries (are you listening you dumb mother****er down south??) or to not purchase SUVs.
it might make a small difference, except their budget is large enough to not care... they can post losses for years and then recover when everyone forgets about this stupid idea and gets used to paying $1 a liter... or $2 or $5. Whatever... the smart thing to do would be to not go invade oil producing countries (are you listening you dumb mother****er down south??) or to not purchase SUVs.
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