Gas War! Make a Difference!

[Ruststang]

GAS WAR: an idea that 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.

Join the resistance! I hear we're are going to hit close to $4.00 a gallon by next summer and itmight 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 wasgoing 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 tous 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 $2.84 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil co mpanies 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 acti on 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 hitsomeone 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 havean impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DO NOT purchase ANY gasoline from the 2 biggest companies (whichnow 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 mill ions 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.

[SPOOLIN]

STFU THERES NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. DRIVE YOUR CAR, BUY YOUR GAS, AND PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE PRICE. GEORGIA IS THE CHEAPEST STATE FOR GAS IN THE COUNTRY.

[Hulud]

HOLY FUCKING REPOST

this is stupid, wont work
and its been proposed for like the past 5 years

[Hulud]

STFU THERES NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. DRIVE YOUR CAR, BUY YOUR GAS, AND PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE PRICE. GEORGIA IS THE CHEAPEST STATE FOR GAS IN THE COUNTRY.

CAPSLOCK FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +1

[Ruststang]

STFU THERES NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. DRIVE YOUR CAR, BUY YOUR GAS, AND PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE PRICE. GEORGIA IS THE CHEAPEST STATE FOR GAS IN THE COUNTRY.

Dont be an asshole its called supply and demand i can afford gas but would like it to be cheaper and as a people it is the right thing to do. So if your going to be a dick keep out of this.

[Hulud]

Dont be an asshole its called supply and demand i can afford gas but would like it to be cheaper and as a people it is the right thing to do. So if your going to be a dick keep out of this.

REPOSTS ARE FAIR GAME, IF YOU DONT LIKE PEOPLE IN YOUR THREAD THEN SIMPLY DONT POST


WE WONT MISS YOU

[Ruststang]

HOLY FUCKING REPOST

this is stupid, wont work
and its been proposed for like the past 5 years

Well doubt and lack of effort coulnd't be the cause of that could it?

[Ruststang]

REPOSTS ARE FAIR GAME, IF YOU DONT LIKE PEOPLE IN YOUR THREAD THEN SIMPLY DONT POST


WE WONT MISS YOU

I have no problem with people in the thread just dont be a dick and shoot it down. God forbid that someone thinks we dont have to be slaves the gas company pricing. And that maybe the consumer could be able to change it seeing that we are the ones buying the shit anyways.

[Hulud]

I have no problem with people in the thread just dont be a dick and shoot it down. God forbid that someone thinks we dont have to be slaves the gas company pricing. And that maybe the consumer could be able to change it seeing that we are the ones buying the shit anyways.

god forbid people on IA actually use the search function for once

[Ruststang]

god forbid people on IA actually use the search function for once

Hey repost or not im going to post it if i dont see it and i dont care if someone says anything about it. But dont be stupid and right off every idea as stupid becuase you cant set a goal in your life and or have no hope of changing the world to make it just a bit better to live in.

[hydroshutter]

Let me know which day you don't buy gas!!!

[hydroshutter]

.....because I'm going to buy a MEGA ASS-LOAD of gas then!

[Ruststang]

Alright maybe its just me but i cant understand why everyone on here love paying alot for gas. I understand why hydroshutter said what he said because he cant be an individual Human being and saw someone else giving me a hard time. So being that hes weak at mind and cant stand up for himself he joined in I can't say what part of his childhood made him a pussy but thats not the topic. But why is it that we cannot try to improve the situation we are in?

[CRXchic19]

lol. well I agree with you. everybody keeps bitching and moaning that gas prices suck, but nobody puts forth the effort to change anything. props for posting this up, even if it is a repost, it might be new news to someone.

its just kinda hard to rally up as many people as is needed to actually affect those companies. especially with v8 trucks, suburbans, explorers....you get the picture....out on the road these days. people complain, but they wont actually DO anything about it.

i'm set though, 2 CRX's, $20 in gas every 4 days, either QT, Racetrack, or BP(they have done a lot for the industry lately).

cant change a nation, but dont worry, at the rate we are going, we wont have any oil reserves left in the near future anyways.....

[Ruststang]

well i guess i will just get a bicycle or something since everyone is expecting handouts oh well at least i tried.

[CRXchic19]

hey now, that tahoe isnt really helping now that i think about it........

[DemonEyez]

lets say this work we get everyone to boycott exxon and mobil. So the demand for exxon and mobil gas has gone waaaay down. Will this drive the price down?? If what you planned is working then people will not go back to exxon and mobil for a while and so lowering the price for them wont put them back into profitability. Also They will not lower the price to a point where they wont make moeny they would rather just stop selling gas. Its better not to make money or lose money.. than lose money.

Also if everyone is jsut buying the other gas.. due to an increase in their demand will the prices go down? Hopefully it would make sense.. except that If i knew that you are gonna buy my gas even if the exxon guy is cheaper just because your boycotting them then i am not going to lower my prices.. if your boycotting them u dont have much of a choice eh? Also what if BP isnt large enough to supply the extra demand? It would create a supposed fuel shortage.. in which case the price of gas would go WAAY up.

if the price at bp went up.. or wasnt going down people would jsut go back to exxon.. and if exxon see's this and knows this they would raise their gas prices back up.. so in the end.. nothing would have changed.. except for the few weeks of trying something like this, you drove out of your way to another gas station instead of the nearby exxon or mobil.

Also since this isnt a machine run, logical system. if your trying to boycott me *OPEC* then im goign ot just be a bitch also and drop oil production and raise your prices so high your gonna scream murder.. yeah they can play this game too btw..

also if exxon decides to raise their price to 10.00$ a gallon.. and mobil does.. then bp will probably raise their prices to 9.97.. hey i mean then bp is still cheaper right?

The price war isnt always whoc an go lower and lower.. its how high can i raise my prices and be slightly cheaper than someone else.

No company is going to offer you their lowest price just to be nice or because they can.. their going to squeeze every penny for profit they can.

[SPOOLIN]

RustStang: lol you dont know anything about gas and oil apparently. LOL @ supply and demand in this one, if we dont buy for a day, china will just get more and we'll just sit with the same gas price until the next day. the demand is higher than the supplied output generally speaking.

If our guys and friends wern't infiltrating all these terror fucks and stopping them like they have been, bin laden would have his way and a barrel of oil would be 200$ and wed be paying 7.00 a gallon for gas.

[hydroshutter]

Alright maybe its just me but i cant understand why everyone on here love paying alot for gas. I understand why hydroshutter said what he said because he cant be an individual Human being and saw someone else giving me a hard time. So being that hes weak at mind and cant stand up for himself he joined in I can't say what part of his childhood made him a pussy but thats not the topic. But why is it that we cannot try to improve the situation we are in?

LOL @ your stupidity. I don't even need to respond to this, you won't understand.

[nreggie454]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

[hydroshutter]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

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[Eurostunna07]

Is int Mobil also known as chevron shitty ass gas?

[speedminded]

RustStang: lol you dont know anything about gas and oil apparently. LOL @ supply and demand in this one, if we dont buy for a day, china will just get more and we'll just sit with the same gas price until the next day. the demand is higher than the supplied output generally speaking.

If our guys and friends wern't infiltrating all these terror fucks and stopping them like they have been, bin laden would have his way and a barrel of oil would be 200$ and wed be paying 7.00 a gallon for gas.

ALL of the gasoline in Atlanta comes from the SAME pipes. The regular, unleaded, & premium that you buy at every gas station, no matter what the name is, all comes from the SAME pipe. You boycott one company and they will have will take action to draw in customers, resulting in lowering their price. Do any of you realize how dumb 99.999% of us are? Take last summer for example, the two pipelines providing 90% of our fuel were "damaged", Atlanta has a 7-10 day supply/reserve, yet the prices went up nearly double that very FIRST day. The gas stations blamed the media for saying we were going to run out, yet why did their price go up $0.50-1.00 within hours of the public finding out there was an issue with the pipeline??? We got hosed. We have over a week of fuel sitting in tanks in Atlanta, there is NO reason for the price to go up for at least a week. Another example, smaller gas stations may only get a gas truck in every 3 days or so....but how or why does the price still fluctuate daily? That fuel in the tank under the ground is bought and paid for at a set price, that exact same gas is still in those tanks but the price changes??? They call it "market value", the value is what it was bought at, not what today or tomorrow's price is going to be. We are all like stray dogs: we get beaten, sodomized, & abused practically every day yet the very next day standing there wagging our tails getting gas and food from a "convenience" store.

[speedminded]

Back in 2005, "Since January of 2002, the price of crude has tripled, leaving oil producers awash in profits. During that period, the top 10 major public oil companies have sold some $1.5 trillion worth of crude, pocketing profits of more than $125 billion."

[Extrememustang]

STFU THERES NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. DRIVE YOUR CAR, BUY YOUR GAS, AND PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE PRICE. GEORGIA IS THE CHEAPEST STATE FOR GAS IN THE COUNTRY.

Actaully ga USED TO BE. now I see cheaper prices in SC

[Extrememustang]

I remember in jan of 99 I went to the army and I was told in oakwood ga in feb at the QT gas went from .99 to .69

[Sol-Badguy]

Once I see something on about 50+ MySpace bulletins, it doesn't even matter to me anymore.

[Ruststang]

LOL @ your stupidity. I don't even need to respond to this, you won't understand.

Then why did you respond? And im the stupid one ha!

[Ruststang]

also i understand that the car listed in my thread is bad with gas . But my round trip to work is 4 miles i need gas about every 3 weeks or even longer i try to ride with others so save gas. Anyways sorry to upset anyone i just thought it would be nice to see if anyone gave to shits about the world and how it was going. But it seems everyone has given up and is just willing to deal with being taken for a ride on everything.. Gas prices,Taxes, Government taking you for a ride. Excuse me for thinking power should be in the hands of the consumer! so the moral of the story is War sucks , we pay taxes in and out of war time that the constitution says we shouldn't and everything is just ok because we as a nation have given up ..

[hydroshutter]

Then why did you respond? And im the stupid one ha!

You further prove my point. To spell it out for you, I felt your initial blatant lack of intelligence (brought out by your insignificant rant) wasn't worthy of a rebuttal from me.

[nreggie454]

also i understand that the car listed in my thread is bad with gas . But my round trip to work is 4 miles i need gas about every 3 weeks or even longer i try to ride with others so save gas. Anyways sorry to upset anyone i just thought it would be nice to see if anyone gave to shits about the world and how it was going. But it seems everyone has given up and is just willing to deal with being taken for a ride on everything.. Gas prices,Taxes, Government taking you for a ride. Excuse me for thinking power should be in the hands of the consumer! so the moral of the story is War sucks , we pay taxes in and out of war time that the constitution says we shouldn't and everything is just ok because we as a nation have given up ..

It isn't a matter of whether or not others care about the world, it is that your plan WON'T WORK. Read the link I posted earlier. You might as well propose time travel to fix the gas price problem.

EDIT: hydroshutter, I just finished my German final and happened to notice the quote under your avatar. LOL +1.

[hydroshutter]

It isn't a matter of whether or not others care about the world, it is that your plan WON'T WORK. Read the link I posted earlier. You might as well propose time travel to fix the gas price problem.

EDIT: hydroshutter, I just finished my German final and happened to notice the quote under your avatar. LOL +1.

LOL!

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to nreggie454 again.

[Ruststang]

It isn't a matter of whether or not others care about the world, it is that your plan WON'T WORK. Read the link I posted earlier. You might as well propose time travel to fix the gas price problem.

EDIT: hydroshutter, I just finished my German final and happened to notice the quote under your avatar. LOL +1.

Ok there is a huge problem with what you just said and that is that this is not my idea. Nor did i Say i promote this idea the main idea i had when i started the thread was feedback which im getting. However alot of you are missing the point and trying to pin the flaws of this plan on me as if im personally responsable for this idea. I was merely trying to instate the possibility there is a problem with paying these huge amounts for gas and this article "Idea" was something i came across and wanted to post. So that being said all of the critics of this thread no matter how you responded to this post be it positive or negetive i appreciate your input. Now im going to withdrawal from my own thread because the lack of constructive criticsim and the abundance of idioct personal rants.

Peace out

[hydroshutter]

Ok there is a huge problem with what you just said and that is that this is not my idea. Nor did i Say i promote this idea the main idea i had when i started the thread was feedback which im getting. However alot of you are missing the point and trying to pin the flaws of this plan on me as if im personally responsable for this idea. I was merely trying to instate the possibility there is a problem with paying these huge amounts for gas and this article "Idea" was something i came across and wanted to post. So that being said all of the critics of this thread no matter how you responded to this post be it positive or negetive i appreciate your input. Now im going to withdrawal from my own thread because the lack of constructive criticsim and the abundance of idioct personal rants.

Peace out

It's cool man, sorry if I seemed too hostile.

You started this thread, so I took that as you promoting it.

[bigpimpatl]

did you guys hear about that one exxon exec that got a $600 million retirement package? These oil companies are all greedy sons of bitches. The only REAL solution to this problem of the oil cartels, is for us to invest in newer technologies (no, not ethanol as that is garbage). We need to be creative and rethink the way we do things, instead of trying to come up with a half assed solution (aka ethanol) that even if it does work, will only be short term and has its own problems.

In the mean time, we should pressure our government to actually do something instead of all this nonsense rhetoric. But I guess it won't happen any time soon, since our government is dominated by special interests.

[ahmonrah]

yeah , what ^ said.
i'm thinking about working with cold fusion........or zero point energy. ahh fuck it. i'll create somethin to power cars with magnets.

[Elbow]

I always use Shell...

[AnthonyF]

I do think it is pretty shitty that they can rape us with gas prices but honestly there is nothing we can do. I wish the government would step in and do something, but they are making green too. So they dont give a fuck


~~~kinda off topic, but is there a site where it says who has the BEST gas? Shell says it beats low grade gas...but that doesn't mean they are the best. I go to QT a lot, and I heard their gas isn't that great either. I was seeing who actually carried the best performance, cleaner burning fuel.~~~

[DemonEyez]

I do think it is pretty shitty that they can rape us with gas prices but honestly there is nothing we can do. I wish the government would step in and do something, but they are making green too. So they dont give a fuck


~~~kinda off topic, but is there a site where it says who has the BEST gas? Shell says it beats low grade gas...but that doesn't mean they are the best. I go to QT a lot, and I heard their gas isn't that great either. I was seeing who actually carried the best performance, cleaner burning fuel.~~~

what can the government do? "HEY OPEC LOWER YOUR PRICES PLEAAAASE". they will just laugh.

the us cant put an embargo on their oil.. or this country would come to a standstill.

also. btw i hope you guys know that its these oil companies actually paying for alot of the research into these alternative energies.. why.. because then they will control those also.

everyone should watch the discovery channel more. : )

[speedminded]

I do think it is pretty shitty that they can rape us with gas prices but honestly there is nothing we can do. I wish the government would step in and do something, but they are making green too. So they dont give a fuck

How many people know oil companies pay as much or more in taxes than the profit itself?! Thats why bush offered a multi-billion dollar tax break over the next few years, in hopes of lowering the cost. Will it work, probably not but it's a start.

what can the government do? "HEY OPEC LOWER YOUR PRICES PLEAAAASE". they will just laugh.

the us cant put an embargo on their oil.. or this country would come to a standstill.

also. btw i hope you guys know that its these oil companies actually paying for alot of the research into these alternative energies.. why.. because then they will control those also.

everyone should watch the discovery channel more. : )

They are also spending less and less each year in search of new oil