I've seen this one over and over again.

It's great idea but it doesn't work. All the gas sold by all of your local
stations come from one regional terminal.

The supply is so tight that even if were to all not buy for a day we would
only be hurting ourselves. This is because most gas stations get at least
one delivery a day. Don't sell for a day and no-one gets deliveries that
day. Then the following day everyone who would have bought gas fills up and
this causes a short term shortage that ripples through the next week FOR US.

Tom

From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Max Wellhouse
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 4:31 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Fw: Gasoline: Any VANAGON People buy this concept?

We don't have any Exxon Mobil stations here.   Gotta 3/4/5 we could pick
on???

Looking for a bicycle for my prostitute girlfriend so she can peddle
it all over town.

DM&FS

At 03:17 PM 3/5/2011, George Wietor wrote:

>   IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT  WILL SHOW YOU
> HOW  WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO    $1.30 PER  GALLON.
>This  was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive.  It came from one
>of  his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton.  If you
>are  tired of the gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise
>this  summer, take time to read this  please.
>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!
>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?
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>We  need to take some intelligent, united  action.
>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!
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>By  now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $2.00 is
>super  cheap.  Me too!  It is currently $3.08 at Arco and
>Costco  for regular unleaded in Salem, Oregon and climbing every  week.
>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.
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>With  the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers
>need to  take action.
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>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.
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>But  we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to
>force a  price war.
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>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.
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>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 on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how  simple
>it is to reach millions of  people!!
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>I  am sending this note to 30 people.  If each of us 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 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!
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>If  it goes one level further, you guessed it.....  THREE
>HUNDRED  MILLION PEOPLE!!!
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>Again,  all you have to do is send this to 10 people.  That's  all!
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>(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.
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>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  $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.  THIS CAN REALLY  WORK.
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