>From: ROY RAIVIO

>To: Smarties

>Subject: Gasoline anyone?

>Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 00:21:06 -0800

>

>

> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:29 AM

>Subject: Let's do it AGAIN! Take a STAND.

>

>I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by

>the summer. Do we 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 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 (that's right, year!!), DON"T purchase ANY

>gasoline

>from the two biggest companies (which now have become 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 and DON"T purchase ANY

>gasoline from EXXON and MOBIL. That's all.

>

>(If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million

>don't worry about it all you have do to 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 or 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