Pancho1188
05-27-2004, 04:34 AM
I post this
because the bottom part is funny...he says, \"But I am [a mathematician]...so trust me on this one.\" Any person
who could do math and lived in the US would know that there aren\'t even 300 million people in the US...seeing as
they\'re referring to US gas prices, they probably wanted to get the word out to everyone in the US, which I
believe the population is around 280 million right now. Seeing as...I\'ll guess...only 50-60% of US households
have access to the internet, that means that you\'re only going to be able to e-mail ~150 million US
citizens...and since many of those are children that don\'t buy gas...well, you get the picture.
Yeah, what a
great mathematician. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
I hear we are going to hit close to
$3.00 a gallon by
the summer. 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 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
$1.97 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 whimp 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.
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.)
because the bottom part is funny...he says, \"But I am [a mathematician]...so trust me on this one.\" Any person
who could do math and lived in the US would know that there aren\'t even 300 million people in the US...seeing as
they\'re referring to US gas prices, they probably wanted to get the word out to everyone in the US, which I
believe the population is around 280 million right now. Seeing as...I\'ll guess...only 50-60% of US households
have access to the internet, that means that you\'re only going to be able to e-mail ~150 million US
citizens...and since many of those are children that don\'t buy gas...well, you get the picture.
Yeah, what a
great mathematician. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
I hear we are going to hit close to
$3.00 a gallon by
the summer. 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 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
$1.97 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 whimp 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.
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.)