I got this email the other day and I am definitley doing it!!!

Copy & past this into an email and send it. It's worth a try anyway!! I for one in a billion, am sick and tired of the gas companies contiually gouging us, so why not try it and who knows???


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 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 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 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! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

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

Count me in! I'm a sucker for this kind of BS

Hmmm... I guess maybe I don't understand enough about how this stuff works.

I suppose I always assumed that small companies get their gas from Exxon and Mobile anyway. I mean... is Sheetz gas actually Sheetz gas? What about Wilbur's (Your Country Store) in Cearfoss? Is there a way for me to tell which gas is which, other than avoiding Exxons and Mobiles (which I do anyway, because I prefer to buy from the little guy)?

And, as a note, it would help to simply buy less gas. May sound improbable to some, but it could work for others. Flex time, a couple of telecommuting days, car pools, organizing errands into one trip, leaving the SUV at home and choosing the more fuel efficient car, shopping online, etc. can reduce personal fuel consumption.

It will never work, people won't inconvenience themselves by going out of their way to buy gas. Also I believe PF is right small stores have to get their gas from someone.

Warning this next part is off topic.

Wilburs in Cearfoss, WOW, I grew up in Cearfoss. I remember when the store was up the road just north of the circle until the old underground gas tanks leaked into the basement of the house across the street and blew it up.

peacefrog has it right. Reduce consumption but then that would inconveinence most of us. LOL

Better yet don't ever change the oil in your vehicle again!!

daggone it.. go to snopes.com and read what they have to say about it....

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

I always have to wonder (my suspicious mind, again) when I read any kind of letter to "pass this letter on to as many people as possible" that there is some kind of computer tracking test (ok, you geeks, stop laughing!) or something like that. It just seems like there are so many letters that use whatever tactics they can find ( guilt, good luck, monetary rewards) to get people to forward letters. Why is that?


So, this is off topic a little. But, I don't trust any chain letters as being valid and I just delete them. And I don't think there would be enough of a concentrated effort to stop buying gas to make the price come back down to $1.30. Like SMan said, we are too addicted to gasoline, our cars, and traveling on our own, whenever we want. I think it would take those long gas lines (remember that horror!) to make people really conserve. It would have to be very inconvient for everyone to get gas, to make us really conserve. IMO

It is so they can collect alot of email addresses to sale to spammers. I always give people hell for sending stuff to me that has a collection of email addresses on it. If you send to multiple people use CC and not the TO area to add email addresses.

Aha! I knew it! Thanks Wrangler. I will keep deleting them.

Better yet use BCC: (blind carbon copy) so no one can see anyone elses email addy.

Doh thats it. Thats what I get for noy paying attention to what I type.

Well, just so you know, I didn't know. I made sense to me, don't buy DIRECTLY from the biggedt oil companies. I do know that all the generic stations do get their gas from someone but obviously they dont pay as much to them. Anyway, sorry if I offeneded anyone. Just trying to do my part, buying less gas is hard when you have to run your kids to practices and the like, and I DO carpool for that!!

Also, I posted that in here for anyone who wanted to participate, it isn't a chain letter unless I email it to you. Oh, and I do not sell names to spammers or anyone. I don't get anything out of this except any satifaction that it may, (or may not as some of you have pointed out) hurt the big oil companies. So sorry if I offended anyone.

Sorry oky... didn't mean to come off like that. Sometimes I forget that people don't know about the snopes resource.

The suggestion does make sense at first glance, until you realize the mechanics of oil/gas distribution.

Thanks for posting, and please accept my apology at appearing to be critical of your post. It was I who didn't mean to offend. Sorry.

Hey it's ok really. I just hate to be misunderstood............

Probably about as much as we hate to be spammed by lame-brained stuff like this.

Don't take it personally, but some of us get way too much of this kind of stuff from people whom we sometimes wish we had never given out our e-mail addresses to. Your heart may have been in the right place, but a little more healthy skepticism before passing on form letters would be appreciated.

Ok big man, I remember you from my post on the 70/81 exchange!!! You are the one who thinks all of us from WV are hillbillies among other things. You are probably one of those nascar wannabees who practically run us all down on 81!! LOL!!

Again, maybe I AM BEING TOO SENSITIVE, but I didn't email anyone so I am not going to feel guilty. Anyone can choose to ignore it, and apparently most of you did. That was my way of complaining about gas prices going up every couple of days. I am afraid to get in the old SUV today because I am sure it is probably over $2.90 today!!!

No instead you posted a silly spam message that any intelligent person would've known was total b.s. on our forum. At least you chose the right board: it's right in line with most of what gets called into Mail Call.

Ok now you are getting testy!! I am new to this board so NO I didn't know. You are mean.
btw, are you implying I am stupid?

Are you new to the internet too? You are the mean one who is taking offense. You started by giving Yoss a bunch of lame excuses. What IMHO you should've done was simply humbly apologized. I think anyone but a rank newbie knows to do a quick search of the various "urban legends" sites before passing on things like the one you posted. Stupid? - I don't know. Irresponsible? - absolutely.

You are just mad because of what I said to you about the 70/81 thing. If I posted something that insults YOU.... you can just ignore it. I did not give Yoss a bunch of lip either, where do you get this stuff?? I am not new to the internet, as I said before this was just my way of complaining abuot GAS PRICES, geezzzzzzzzzz!
I really don't think this board is sacred is it??? If so maybe I won't post again. I am supposed to be working and here I am sparring with you, how irresponsible is that?? That is, not what I posted on here, now there's your lip.

When I replied to this thread I had no idea who or what you were or whether you had ever posted before. I still couldn't care less. My posts in this thread stand on their own merits.

Same here BIG MAN

Glad to see your cutting the newbie some slack, B

Poor Oky.

I was probably 19 when I got my first home computer, (10 years ago ), and I remember getting an email from someone that said this little girl was sick with cancer and for every email address I sent the email to, the little girl would get money for her medical bills. Yeah, I bought it hook, line and sinker.

I was like I'm going to send this to EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD! I started going into chat rooms and cutting and pasting everyone's names...hundreds of people I didn't even know. I thought it was the least I could do. Then these strangers started emailing me back telling me how dim witted I was and that it wasn't real. I felt so embarrassed and stupid.

Nowadays I don't believe ANYTHING I get in email. The amount of spam I get is UNREAL. I have an email account for home, at work, for school, and somewhere else, though I forget what for at the moment. Anyhow, after so many years of getting all this crap, you start to get bitter. I dread it when someone in my family gets a computer because that means they'll get hold my email address and bombard me with a bazillion pieces o' crap email.

Honestly...don't buy into anything you get through email. Nine chances out of ten, it's a bunch o' bullpoop. Snopes.com is an excellent site to run all of it through. Pictures, chain letters, all that stuff. It will tell you if it is legit or not.

It's funny though because people take the time to send these things to me, over and over , and then I take the time to debunk them at snopes. When they get my reply that it isn't real and it's a hoax, they get mad at me. They especially don't like it if I hit "reply to all" and send the snopes info to all their friends and family. They say, "just delete it! That's all you have to do, Heather!" And I say, "NO! You can just NOT SEND IT TO ME!"

Sorry you got some flack for your post, Oky, but you have to understand that some of us have been getting these messages in bulk for the last several years. It's like getting junk mail in your mailbox. Yeah, we can just throw it away, but it bugs us too much to not get annoyed first!

Oh, and don't let B get under your skin. He's mean to everyone, not just you.

A guy just forwarded this email to every employee in my building. Its making it around.

I wasn't trying to give ya hell, sorry if I came off that way. Heather summed it up pretty good.

Actually I was quite long-winded. You're probably the only person that will read it.

OMGosh, Heather! I did the reply all thing with a snopes link init once, and boy did I ever catch crap for that! The mother of the girl who sent it to me gave me the biggest lecture about how I made her daughter look stupid in front of all these people and blah, blah, blah. Unfortunately, the girl was one of my closest friends in HS, and of course I know her mom as well as I know my own, so I felt kinda bad..at first! They all still live in the dinky town where I grew up, so of course everybody knows when I'm in town visiting. They do their best to avoid me now!

Ok, back to the topic at hand....I want to salvage some fryer oil from McD's and mix it with lye in 50 gallon drums in my backyard....my very own fueling station! It's really sad when I gotta pay $30 a week to fill up my teeny tiny Hyundai!

On a brighter note, just be glad you don't live in California where it costs $87.00 for 21 gallons of premium gasoline.

Well that's crappy. Must not have been THAT good of friends then. Geez.

Sorry you had to learn the lesson the hard way, Oky Doky, but you are the one in the wrong here. Do us a favor and LEARN from the experience instead of being an A## about it.

Sorry, B, but gotta disagree with you. No right or wrong here. Just someone who had a creative idea on how to improve the quality of life by protesting to reduce gas prices. Nothing wrong with that. The part about the chain letter was an added bonus for me. Learned alot from the other posters about that.

Thanks Oky, for the post. It's a good topic and I learned from it. Don't let B scare you away. He insults everyone. Just let it roll off your back. Keep posting topics and ideas. We sure need some fresh air in here. Getting too hot! (P.S. Don't forget about the button to hide posts of people you don't want to read......What's it called Dragon? Can't remember now!)

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Now that I'm working closer to home (Cburg), I only fill up the tank on Friday evenings on the way home. OMG - tonight was a hair-raising experience - $2.92/GL!

When I worked in Frederick, I spent $250/month on gas, and it was between $1.50 - $1.80/GL. It wouldn't be worthwhile for me to work in Frederick now! My son drives a Tahoe and his wife drives a Cherokee - both 8 cylinders. Their drive is pretty much local, but last year he told me that he would have to close out a gasoline sale at $50.00 and start again in order to fill his gas tank. I haven't asked him, but I'd bet a tank of gas has to be almost $100 now!

My 4-cylinder Camry looks better and better every day lately. I'm almost to 188,000 - hope I can make it to 300,000.

I'll trade ya jobs. I live in cburg but work in Waynesboro. I thought about buying a beater car since my truck only gets 15mpg. But figured it is cheaper to buy gas then maintainance, insurance, and etc... for a second vehicle. I am looking at a smaller truck but they only get a 1 or 2 mpg better and have alot less space and hauling/towing capacity.

Sorry, but no thanx. I live in Huntingdon County. Our office will probably be moving at the end of this year; they're talking about Carlisle. I don't believe I'll be going to Carlisle - Sheetz is looking better and better.

Are you kidding me?



Uh... could it possibly have something to do with the fact that he threatened to drop a "nukular" bomb on the second largest supplier of oil to OPEC?

Even funnier...



You can't make this stuff up.

Not so funny...

In that same speech today he said:


Btw, what's up with the silos in the photo? Even his prop man is in a slump, it looks like he's in Iowa talking about crop subsidies or something.

It was just 8 months ago that he and the Republican congressional leaders shoved the energy bill down the Democrats thoat. He was singing a different tune then.


The only measure that he mentioned specifically today, the "use of taxpayer money to subsidize energy research into deep water drilling," refers to a $1.55 billion rip-off to benefit the Texas Energy Center in Sugar Land that his buddy Tom I-believe-he's-innocent Delay inserted at the last minute into the bill.


It was all part of the bill that Bush signed, but now that DeLay's out of the picture he can safely cut it out.

It's too bad we can't go back and eliminate all the other "unnecessary" things that they've pushed through Congress in the last five years.

I know I'm not supposed to do this but...

Anybody want to buy a truck?

2001 Ford F-150 Super Crew

Engine: V8 5.4 Liter Triton
Transmission: Automatic
Drivetrain: 4WD
Mileage: 125,000

Equipment: Air conditioning, power steering, power windows, power door locks, tilt wheel. Cruise control, AM/FM stereo, single CD player, dual front air bags, ABS (4-wheel), alloy wheels, running boards, towing pkg, power seat, moon roof, custom bed liner, hard lid cover over bed.

Excellent condition.

KBB list price: $13,555
Asking price: $13,000

PM me.

I'm serious.

How many gallons per mile does it get.

1/17, with the lid on. 1/16 without.

Just saw a gas sign over here on Rt. 9 that was $2.79! Havn't seen that for awhile.

$3 a gallon and they can't keep the Yukons and Escalades in stock!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12777854/site/newsweek/

I paid $2.59 over the weekend, but that was at Martin's using bonus points.

Let me get some copper pipe and a good fire going and I'll get my price per gallon down to $1.09

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12801825/