Gas Prices

[G-MONEY]

I was emailed this at work and I thought I might help spread it around.


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

[delongheavyhaul]

I REALLY HOPE THIS WORKS! FILLIN UP THE BOAT HURTS EVERYTIME! BUT IT IS STILL SOOOO WORTH IT!

[wrangler]

Hey, I'm all for giving anything a go that will help bring prices back down a little... My dad and I were laughing the other day that now 2 dollar gas would look really good!!! I would say that big oil is laughing all the way to the bank right now...

The problem with the theory, I suspect, is that the demand that has crept up elsewhere in the world like China and India etc. probably make any decline in the US less of an issue these days. I'm in though... Go Chevron and Flying J!

[Wake Havasu]

Filled up in Parker AZ 87 ARCO at 2.59 a gallon.

Same gas here in La Quinta Ca ARCO is 3.09 a gallon.

[dogbert]

Originally posted by Wake Havasu
Filled up in Parker AZ 87 ARCO at 2.59 a gallon.

Same gas here in La Quinta Ca ARCO is 3.09 a gallon.

That's what happens when you go to a welfare state They tax you for everything!

[Matt Garcia]

Bah...typical chain letter IMO. All that is doing is collecting email for spam and phishing.

[gman]

Chain or no chain Got to start somewhere. I agree with Wrangler. We need to get the price down. I'm in also. When the price of oil goes up by 15% and gasoline goes up by 50% there is a problem. GREED. 7billion NET PROFIT in one quarter! I think G-MONEY gave us a Good document to think about. Wouldn't you like to see us all have a little better summer? Gas is now at almost $3.00 for 87 octane. Lets all band together and at least give it a try. It is better to have tried and failed then not to have tried at all. Spread the word. Maybe we as boat owners can get this going and have it grow. Nothing ventured nothing gained.

[G-MONEY]

Matt

so how long have you been working for exxon/mobil???????

[Carter13]

Hey guys what are you paying for diesel where you live?
Here in Washington state 87 octane is going for around 2.45 a gal and diesel is at 3.00 a gal. Everyone here can't understand how diesel being the unrefined product of gas is so flippin expensive.
A lot of guys I know are buying beater cars to drive to work because they can't take the hit at the pumps for their diesel rigs.

[gman]

Carter13, diesel is $3.05 Mobil gas is a 3.05 at one station that I saw and 3.09 at another.

[xpjim1]

You don't have to have a diesel to buy a beater car. I moved my Chevy Crew Cab gas to my 2nd home in Havasu and bought a 95 Chrysler Cirrus for $1000 for commuting. It gets 22 mpg city and almost 30 mpg highway. Much better than the 6.0 Chevy which got about 11 mpg city and 16- 17 mpg highway. Unleaded regular is $2.89

[Matt Garcia]

I never stated that I worked for Exxon/Mobil.

I do however know the purpose of these emails. They are usually to gain a slew of emails. Which are then used for spam, phishing, fraud etc. This is my personal opinion and experience of being in the web technology industry. Believe me I wish something like this would work. BTW, I dont buy from either gas station for the simple fact that not one is close by me.

[xpjim1]

Heres a post from Wakeworld

Qouted from Snopes .com

Here is the actual article on Snopes.com.

Claim: Boycotting a couple of gasoline brands will bring overall gas prices down.

Status: False.

Origins: This year's litany of complaints about gasoline prices is a re-run of the same program from years past: Gasoline prices in the USA are too high; gasoline is a unique commodity whose price isn't subject to the usual market forces of supply and demand; OPEC and greedy American oil companies secretly manipulate the market to keep prices artificially high; and a simple boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline will rectify all this.

Oil companies can manipulate their prices somewhat by controlling how much gasoline they produce and where they sell it, but they can't alter the basics of supply and demand: prices go down when people buy less of a good, prices go up when people buy more of a good, and prices go way up when demand outstrips available supply. The "gas out" schemes that propose to alter the demand side of the equation by shunning one or two specific brands of gasoline for a while won't work, however, because they're based on the misconception that an oil company's only outlet for gasoline is its own branded service stations. That isn't the case: gasoline is a fungible commodity, so if one oil company's product isn't being bought up in one particular market or outlet, it will simply sell its output to (or through) other outlets:
Economics Prof. Pat Welch of St. Louis University says any boycott of "bad guy" gasoline in favor of "good guy" brands would have some unintended (and unhappy) results.

. . . Welch says the law of supply and demand is set in stone. "To meet the sudden demand," he says, "the good guys would have to buy gasoline wholesale from the bad guys, who are suddenly stuck with unwanted gasoline."

So motorists would end up . . . paying more for it, because they'd be buying it at fewer stations.

And yes, oil companies do buy and sell from one another. Mike Right of AAA Missouri says, "If a company has a station that can be served more economically by a competitor's refinery, they'll do it."

Right adds, "In some cases, gasoline retailers have no refinery at all. Some convenience-store chains sell a lot of gasoline — and buy it all from somebody else's refinery."
A boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline won't result in lower overall prices. Prices at all the non-boycotted outlets would rise due to the temporarily limited supply and increased demand, making the original prices look cheap by comparison. The shunned outlets could then make a killing by offering gasoline at its "normal" (i.e., pre-boycott) price or by selling off their output to the non-boycotted companies, who will need the extra supply to meet demand. The only person who really gets hurt in this proposed scheme is the service station operator, who has almost no control over the price of gasoline.

The only practical way of reducing gasoline prices is through the straightforward means of buying less gasoline, not through a simple and painless scheme of just shifting where we buy it. The inconvenience of driving less is a hardship too many people apparently aren't willing to endure, however.

[xpjim1]

I am not happy about high gas prices but I do agree with the author of the above article is the only way to get prices lower is to reduce consumption.

That is why I am leaving my truck at the 2nd home and bought a beater car that gets almost 30 mpg on the highway for my daily commute and the trips to havasu.

The company I work for laid off my car pool partner which is costing me more. I convinced my boss to move me to a location only 8 miles from my house instead of the 50 miles each way I currently drive. Move in to my new location next week.

Hopefully with these savings I can afford gas for the boat

[gman]

well according to your suggestion the service station operator will also get hurt if we all drive less therefore filling up less times and that means less sales for him. Also note the there are other theories of economics, not just supply and demand which you discussed where demand as supply are inverse of each other in other words as one goes up the other goes down. There is also the case where the supply goes up, demand remains the same and price goes up. There is one where the supply goes down, raise the price and when the supply recovers the price stays the same. There is one where you raise the price of object to whatever the customer will bear. There is another to raise the price real high and then back off so that the slightly lower price is better psychologicaly, and there is the portion where you raise the price much higher than your new cost of the product for example the price of oil up by 15% and price of gasoline up by over 50%. There is another one of price of the market. There are a number of ways you can cut and slice but it all boils down to one thing.....greed. Wheater or not it works, I'm still going to try...Like I said, nothing ventured, nothing gained. If it fails oh well, at least I can say I tried!