Just was wondering how badly the current gas prices are effecting both you, and the work going on in your area? Here is a plan someone sent me that they claim could help lower the price of gas. It’d be interesting to hear your opinions/
MDM
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 next 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 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.
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 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. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.
THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
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All that would do is to hurt Exon and Mobile dealers.
The producers wills will still sell they gas to the other dealers.
As much as they advertise the benifit of their brand it is a fungable proudct.
Don't know if you have QuickTrips in your area or not. But they advertise a lot around here and sell LOTS of gas. They are major retailer of gas. However, I have never heard of a QuickTrip Oil Company. Where do they get their gas?
But lets assume that Exon and Mobile can not sell there gas anyplace else. What will happen.
All of the refineries are producing near maximum amounts of gas. Any increase is either not possilbe or with significant increases in costs.
So they will increase the price of gass and with limited supplies the dealers will also increase their margins.
So how long do you expect the drive to buy more expensive gas while Exon and Mobile dealers across the street have it cheaper.
I have not use exxon gas or Mobil since the exxonvaldise event and exxon continues to be the higher price gas around here. All the mobil station have changed to Luk oil (russian owned!) so I'm doing my bit!!
People are so lazy that they wont cross the street to save .10 per gallon. They won't bother fwd this.
Mike
I've been walking to work. Not so far, so it saves only a little, but I got a winter gut I gotta lose.
Maddog,
I hate to point out the obvious, but Exxon and Mobil are the same company (check out http://www.exxonmobil.com). Also, as Bill points out, this will hurt the individual storefronts, but not the company itself. These retailers for the most part are independents who simply license the Exxon or Mobil name and when they go out of business, the price of ExxonMobil stock won't move a single penny.
What is really driving the price you feel at the pump is driven mostly by the economy in China and their increasing use of oil. Simple supply and demand. You will see some easing of the price of oil in the next few years as the companies bring on fields that are marginal (read uneconomic) at $20/Barrel, but make money at $50/Bbl.
Another thing to keep in mind is that even with the price of gas, the guys selling it aren't making all that much money. I see that WIT oil closed at $68.70/Bbl today. That equates to about $1.64 a gallon for the raw material. Add in your $.43-.47/gallon for local, state and federal taxes and you don't have much left over for refining, transport or the poor retailer at the end.
I would like to point out that oil is a finite resource and the best thing we can do is find ways to make ourselves less and less reliant on oil until we wean ourselves off of the stuff. This will not happen at $1.00/gallon, but might at $2.50+/gallon. I don't necessarily think that the govt should tax the heck out of us to fund the research that is necessary, but I don't have any better ideas to speed up the R&D.
Hopefully, we can get off of this merry-go-round before it blows up in our face. In the meantime, we should be doing all we can to insure the price of energy doesn't cripple our economy.
Steve