Interesting idea for fighting high gas prices

[Sideband]

Price war? If EVERYONE stoped buying gas from a specific company they may drop their price... to .01 below their competition. A large amount of people would then flock to that station, who would a day or two later raise their price back up to "normal". Not much of a war.
Stations don't make their profits at the pumps. That is why almost all of them are now also convenience stores. Stations are only making 3 - 5 cents a gallon for gas. That makes it pretty hard to hurt them or force their hands in this way.

Joe

 

[ScubaTexan]

The fuel issue is still questionnable, as it's true that exxon and Mobil are like BP and ESSO in europe, i don't quite know if they are the same companies, but we have the exact same email in french with our currency stated.

ESSO is what Exxon is called in Europe and Canada.

 

[H2Andy]

this type of email is always making the rounds. it just clogs up inboxes.

and now, i get to read it in ScubaBoard as well

 

[milkathecow]

h2Andy, usually it could be considered as a hoax, but then you could find it in the various hoaxbusters and stuff.

This is just an open idea to try to reduce costs, it has been tested in canada, europe is going through it... i admit that 100 a day of spam is a great deal of pain (i get between 30-60 spam mails... per box).

if when sending it or posting it on a forum (which actually is much better, as maybe 1000 people will read it for the same size taken and no more slowing down of networks due to mass emailing), so back... if when emailing you take the FW: out and the unncessary information out, it doesn't make it huge, and a 5-7kb message sent (and not chain email mess) isn't going to kill the broadband.

Hopefully us end users one day might manage to change things... if we start lowering now and not taking action, what our governments do in many countries in the world will continue happening... and we'll be the next "third world" generation ... we're so lucky to be part of those superpower countries that we tend to forget what life can be elsewhere...let's move

 

[Sideband]

- no joke - urgent read

I (original sender. wz) 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,

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.)

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt,

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.

Any message that spends this amount of time trying to get you to pass it on to a bunch of people is at best a chain letter/hoax and at worst, SPAM.

Joe

 

[String]

This method has been spammed in most countries, including over here where petrol prices are near 3x yours. It has fundamental flaws which would in fact achieve the opposite to what they are trying to do.

Its better off ignored.

 

[milkathecow]

sideband, string... you both get a point there even though i'm sure there's a way to make our voice heard, it's surely not by sending emails out... boards maybe, something else... don't know.. but we must be able to get the prices down somehow... but how ?

 

[Sideband]

sideband, string... you both get a point there even though i'm sure there's a way to make our voice heard, it's surely not by sending emails out... boards maybe, something else... don't know.. but we must be able to get the prices down somehow... but how ?

Reduce demand and build more refineries.

Joe

 

[scubasean]

nm

 

[milkathecow]

hmm, and why not try to build cars which use less fuel, maybe other energies, instead of building refineries on an energy which is not reusable and which will die off rather soon ???

in geneva, the buses use colza fuel which is a vegetal fuel which can be produced from a plant which can grow almost everywhere... solar energy, various stuff like that ...