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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 02:50 PM
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Stupid e-mails
Doncha' hate when you get this stupid shit??





>> Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit
> close to $3.00 a
>> gallon
>> by the 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
> 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 $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is
> currently $2.09
>> 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. 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
> 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 about 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, 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 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 $1.30 RANGE AND
> KEEP THEM DOWN.
>> THIS
>> CAN REALLY WORK.
>>
>> Kerry Lyle, Director, Research Coordinator Interventional Cardiology
>> Research Laboratories Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
>> 932 Ziegler Research Bldg
>> 703 South 19th Street University of Alabama @ B'ham Birmingham, Al
>> 35294-0007 Phone: (205) 934-6163 Fax:
> (205) 934-7360
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

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Nicholas D Wolfwood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 02:52 PM
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1. Oh good. Someone thought energy conservation should be a pyramid scheme.
F'ing brilliant. :eyes:
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Abelman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 02:52 PM
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2. Dumb
I'm GLAD gas is expensive. Maybe now we can finally get more fuel-efficient cars.
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Texasgal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 02:59 PM
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4. AWESOME!
Your response is great!
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Abelman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 03:50 PM
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7. Thank you
I've always thought they should have kept gas high after the energy crisis of the 70s and 80s. We might not be in such a fix now.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 02:53 PM
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3. I got one about Jane Fonda the other day.
I don't usually respond, but this time I reminded them of a little thing called The New Testament!
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RedCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 03:04 PM
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5. Selective boycotting!
By Jove, I like the idea!

Let's get whatever oil company Bush loves the most and boycott it right out of business! Then we are after the outrageous shoe mark up companies! And so on!

I am with the boycott.

Boycott Sears for being wimpy with Politically Incorrect.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-11-05 03:49 PM
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6. Subject: Boycott Exxon and Mobil!


(This boycott sponsored by Shell Oil Co.)
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