Subject: FW: boycott big oil! Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 08:08:46 -0500 Message-ID: <B14120EE5C432443B21102F7925DAD0202551426@COKE.uwec.edu> From: "Giamati, Claudia M." <GIAMATCM@uwec.edu>
Sfpj ers,
This isn't our usual fare, I thought it may be appropriate for us to try
this little boycott, if you're up for it... I guess I see GW as the
flag-bearer for big oil addiction and anything that is counter to his
stance is mostly ok with me. Forgive if it's jamming your inbox!
Family and Friends -- This seemed to be just too good an experiment
not
to share.
It just came to me in an e-mail from another friend. It would be
interesting to know
whether a grass-roots effort on the Internet like this would work.
Enjoy
! -- Layman
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 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, DON'T
purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies
(which now are one), EXXO N 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.)
How long would all that take? If each of us sends
this email 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 I
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
Professor of Law and Senior Research Scientist, University of Michigan,
734-340-3739, laymanal@umich.edu http://thinkers.law.umich.edu
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