this was forwarded to me today.
Won’t work. People will just buy gas on the 14th and the 16th.
wouldnt hurt to try?
Correct. Not filling up fora month might work, but. Americans are to dependent on gas.
along with pizza shops, McDonalds, ATMs, computers, cable, internet, ah shit you get the point…
ive been actually researching biodiesel, seems like a hellovagood idea.
Here is the one that I got today.
>
> Lets give this a try - something has to be done and we’re only going to
> get it done together…
>
> GAS WAR - an idea the 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 seeing how gasoline prices are spiraling more and more
> out of control each summer.
>
> I hear we are going to be looking at gasoline prices close to or ABOVE
> $4.00 a gallon. Want gas prices to come down? We need to take some
> intelligent, united action. I’m sure most of us remember last years
> “don’t buy gas on a certain day” campaign. This will never work because
> the big oil companies know we can’t keep hurting ourselves buy NOT buying
> gasoline. It was more of an inconvenience to us the a problem for
> them. Phillip Hollsworth offered this sound strategy:
>
> By now you’re probably thinking that gasoline priced at $1.50 a gallon is
> super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.39 for regular unleaded in
> my town. OPEC countries have conditioned us to accepting higher and
> higher gasoline prices each summer without the prices coming back down
> nearly as far they raised. We now see $1.50 - $1.75 as very affordable.
> We need to take united, aggressive action to curb the cost per gallon
> until bio-fuels and emerging technology make fossil fuels less convenient
> and OPEC loses it’s hold on American consumers. The only real way we
> are going to see the price of gasoline come down is to hit the big oil
> companies where it will hurt the most…in their pocketbook by NOT
> buying their gas. How do we do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves?? Since we
> 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 pricing war.
>
> Here’s the idea:
> For the rest of this year, DON’T purchase ANY gasoline from the two
> BIGGEST companies (which are now actually one) EXXON and MOBIL. If they
> are not selling nearly as much gasoline as they are accustomed to, they
> will be inclined to lower prices to try to attract customers back to
> their pumping stations. If the big two companies lower their prices the
> other oil companies will have to follow suit or THEY will be the ones
> not selling nearly as much gasoline.
>
> But, to have a real impact we need to reach literally millions of EXXON
> and MOBIL gas buyers. If everyone just passes this on to 10 other
> people the day after they receive it, there will be over 300 million
> people contacted in just about 8 days.
>
> Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you
> please pass this message on, if you like the prospect of $4.00 - $5.00
> for a gallon of gas, then you’re far wealthier then I am. If we keep up
> the pressure on EXXON/MOBIL we CAN make them sell their product at a
> price we are willing to pay…say $1.50 a gallon perhaps.
> _____
>
>
> Harrell W. Little, Jr.
> Director of Military Planning and Design
> Torti Gallas and Partners, Inc.
> 1300 Spring Street, 4th Floor
> Silver Spring, MD 20910
> Tel: 301.588.4800 Fax: 301.650.2255
Won’t work. Its simple economics. Forget about it.
Again?
ha they claim 2.3 billion is almost 3. hell by their standards im almost 30!
whoever thought of this is a tard. gas is cheaper than bottled water…get over it.
Yep no one ever coplains about spending $1.29 on 16.9 ozs. of water…
this crap does suck no lie 
ONE day boycott
That’s funny shit…
ok good, so the next day they double thier sales…
I’m going to purposely fill up my tank on the 15th
I can’t believe 1. people read these e-mails and 2. people believe this shit.
If you want to cut down on your gas bill, ride a pedal bike.