I am all for boycotting Exxon in particular,  if it would work, for at least two reasons.  Gas prices are up and yet last year they posted record profits of over 30 BILLION dollars.  Inspite of these record profits they still refuse to pay the paltry 5 billion in settlement money for the Prince William Sound spill 17 years ago.  They claim that they should only have to pay 25 million and because of the amount spent on the clean up they have already covered that.  There is still plenty of oil to be found in the beaches of the Sound and will be for years to come.  Unfortunately they do not have any outlets in Alaska so Alaskans can not vote with their wallets on this issue.

Mark in AK

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Honan <cartruckbus@GMAIL.COM>
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 8:17 am
Subject: Gas price war
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

>  Hi Volks,
>
>  Perhaps this has been run through the list before or several
> times but
> here goes.
>
>  I just got an E mail proposing we start a Gas price war
> by boycotting Mobil Exon, and only purchasing from smaller gas
> companies. If
> the trend realy took off viea E mail chain letters, like 300 thousand
> drivers boycotting Exon Mobil, would that force them to lower the
> prices ?
> Or is there only a few refineries that are making billions off of
> us and the
> only thing to do is drive less ?
>
>
> Brian
>
> 87 Vanagon, soon to be on the road if I can aford gas for it.
>