I got this in email and if people actually did this, then it could possibly actually work...I don't however see enough people doing it to make much of a difference...here it is anyway:

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"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 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 sends it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =3D 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =3D 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!!! 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,all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... I'm a mathematician, 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, 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. "

4/16/2006 10:18:20 PM

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"Want gasoline prices to come down?"

I had to stop reading here.

4/16/2006 10:20:10 PM

this was posted in the soap box a week ago - you suck

4/16/2006 10:33:00 PM

fuck you cocksucker.

take your bullshit email chain letter spam and get the fuck off my internet.

4/16/2006 10:50:12 PM

jeebus fucking christo. if i read this again i'm going to go buy all of my friends $500 gift certificates exclusively for Exxon and Mobile.

4/16/2006 11:12:23 PM

I literally saw this a year ago.

4/16/2006 11:13:41 PM

1) You are fucking stupid to even contemplate this being possible
2) You are even more stupid for wasting my time in replying to let you know how damn stupid you are.

4/16/2006 11:14:29 PM

whatever, i buy just about all my gas from BP or Citgo anyway

4/16/2006 11:31:04 PM

god people are idiots.

4/16/2006 11:31:52 PM

if you even considered the possibility of this working, you are RETARDED
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

4/16/2006 11:47:15 PM

try taking an intro econ course. no wait, it would be way over your head.

4/17/2006 12:20:36 AM

[Edited on April 17, 2006 at 12:29 AM. Reason : ]

4/17/2006 12:29:18 AM

^^ ha! thats a 3rd degree BUUUUURN right there.

and i just came across this:

http://www.cnn.com/money/2006/04/18/markets/oil.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

and this:

http://www.cnn.com/money/2006/04/18/news/economy/gas_prices_ethanol/index.htm?cnn=yes

[Edited on April 18, 2006 at 1:59 PM. Reason : .]

4/18/2006 1:53:04 PM

hahaha

spammy chain letters

i haven't bought gas in 8 months

-ZiP!-

4/18/2006 1:55:39 PM

Watch out of hypodermic needles in the gas pumps!

4/18/2006 2:16:14 PM

i've got a better idea, let's blow up all the hummers and big trucks that guzzle gas at less than 14mpg and see if that doesn't slow our consumption enough to drive the prices down.

4/18/2006 3:13:53 PM

I honestly don't think that would have much impact on it.

4/18/2006 4:35:38 PM

the writing style reminds me of a "Mr. Cash" infomercial.

4/18/2006 4:39:09 PM

that is a lot to read

4/18/2006 4:47:25 PM

http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/article/yourlife/2973

Ben Stein to the rescue!

4/18/2006 4:49:08 PM

Any conservation efforts we take now will be offset by the growth in demand elsewhere. The best thing to do is to find something other than oil.

4/18/2006 4:53:32 PM

I think Hydrogen powered cars would be great. To bad they're using hydrogen fuel cells, instead of coming up with a way to actually ignite the hydrogen to power the vehicle...then again I guess if you got in a wreck..."BOOM!!"

4/18/2006 5:08:27 PM

People that buy gas from Exxon stations are retards.

They're constantly about 6 cents higher than the Crown station.

4/18/2006 5:10:47 PM

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"Initiate a Gas War"

like the one in iraq

4/18/2006 5:11:42 PM

^lol

4/18/2006 5:20:18 PM

i was hoping this was a plan to kill owners of opec or something

4/18/2006 5:25:48 PM

When you go to the gas station someone will put a sticky note on your rear window and when you get out to check it they will jack you. This scam is being run by my mom's best friend's students named Lemonjello and Oranjello. They also pied Gary and burnt down the Atrium.

Carry on, but don't Cary on.

4/18/2006 5:32:57 PM

amg guys you are so pessimistic

you can totally change the world by forwarding e-mail!!!

it worked my friend's brother's teacher's dog OK

4/18/2006 5:42:30 PM

Please buy more gas from Exxon and Mobile. I love their stock.

4/18/2006 5:45:27 PM

The best way to save money on gas is drive out of your way every time you need gas just to show the gas companies you mean business. Who cares if this means you end up using more gas total rather than going to more convenient locations? I’m sure gas companies, despite the profit from more gas being expended if this was successful, would understand the sentiment of the message rather than the extra profits you’re giving them.

4/18/2006 5:58:18 PM

the thing with that is that 99% of the time you dont have to really go out of the way, instead just go across the street to the other gas station

4/18/2006 6:00:46 PM

Wasn't there supposed to be a "not buy gas day" or something? Didn't it fail miserably?

4/18/2006 6:36:43 PM

Is this a parody thread?

4/18/2006 6:44:33 PM

no she's serious, i got an email with this shit too

4/18/2006 7:13:23 PM

^^^How exactly could that ever work?

All having a "not buy gas day" could possibly do is make people buy more gas the day before & after this day.

4/19/2006 12:09:34 AM

The best way to save money on gas is to not pay for it.

Pump and jump ftw.

4/19/2006 1:30:03 PM

Jesus is laughing at you.

4/19/2006 1:33:51 PM

I pay for it with a debit card so that won't work for me.

4/19/2006 1:39:34 PM

did somebody say GAS FIGHT?

4/19/2006 1:56:31 PM

^ hahahaha excellent!

4/21/2006 6:06:46 PM