People, people. Please do not buy into this! Before perpetuating myths
like this, do a little research first!

A simple check of the Snopes urban legends site
(http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/gasout.htm) reveals that this
is PATENTLY FALSE.

Besides this fact, EXXON and MOBIL merged a few years back and are the
SAME company. This should tip you off to the fact that this is complete
propaganda.

jh

On Feb 25, 2004, at 10:04 AM, JordanVw@AOL.COM wrote:

> i usually dont fwd stuff i get in mass mailings to the list, but i
> thought
> this one was interesting..    as for vanagon content -  my vanagon
> runs on gas :<
> )
>
> anyway, here it be..
>
> ------------------------fwd--------------------------
>
>
> Subject: Gasoline prices
> this may work!
> I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon 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 $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $1.97 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.
>