Gas-Internet Hoax ?

[Karried]

I received this email message from a friend - I normally don't forward things but I was wondering if this message below might have any substance to it or if it might effect a change. Any thoughts?



-------Original Message-------



"Everyone should know that I don't forward this kind of stuff, but I really
Like this idea. The only comment I would add it this... Do you think the
oil companies were making fat cash when the price of gas was $1.50 per gallon?
You bet your ass. From my business experience, price isn't determined by
what the product costs to produce, it is determined by what the market will
bear... and currently our market is bearing $2.50+ per Gallon. With no
action the cost will only go up. For those of you who were with me in
Kuwait, have you seen more Mercedes, Porsches, Ferrari's, BMW's, Etc.
anywhere else? Not even in LA.

I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the end of summer.
Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united
action. Philip 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 $2.75 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 his or her 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 whimp (sic) out on
me at this point... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach
millions of people!! I am sending this note to about thirty people. If each
of you 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 ! generation 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 and DON"T purchase ANY
gasoline from EXXON and MOBIL. 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
email 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.
PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK

WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO LOSE??????"

[Intrepid]

Yeah...it's a hoax. It's just in a different format than it originally was.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/sitese...de=3919&type=1