2004 Gasoline Prices

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> 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.
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> 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!!!
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> Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. When you forward, delete the address of the person that sent it to you and that way it won't be cluttered with email addresses. 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.)
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> 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.
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> PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK

[Margaret Diann]

http://www.valdezlink.com/gas_prices.htm

Says music man, 'Mike'

I am becoming more and more interested in ethanol fuel for America - it might cost a little more than regular gasoline, but think of the boon to our farmers who could not only grow the crops for the mix, but could also brew and distill the ethanol right on the farm.

This would save us money overall because: - our money would stay at home instead of fattening up Arabs who finance terrorists - our cars and trucks would last 2x as long - air would be cleaner as ethanol burns cleaner - the mash leftover material from the fermentation process makes wonderful cattle feed, more money there - less demand for supertankers bringing in crude from overseas, less risk of spillage off our shores - whoa! Far less risk of another Exxon Valdez! -

Web movie on the Exxon Valdez oil spill - from Mike

March 24
is the 'anniversary' of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound
http://www.valdezlink.com/learn_about_workers.htm

What was primarily wrong with Inipol EAP 22?

• 2-butoxyethanol at 12% by weight was too strong a concentration.
• Workers had too much time exposed - 12-16 hour days 2 weeks straight (not 40 hour work days here) AND
• they didn't have adequate protective gear

Alaska Community Action on Toxics , the Eyak Preservation Council,
Alaska Forum for Environmental Responsibility and Alaska Wilderness
League are bringing a delegation of scientists, fishermen, community representatives and high school students to Washington DC the week of March 22-26.

We will be holding a press conference at the National Press Club on the 15th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on March 24.

We would like to meet with the EPA administrators of the offices of Science and Technology and Oceans and Coastal Protection to share our new findings of the long term impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and recommendations of desired regulatory reform.

We are available Monday afternoon, March 22 and Tuesday morning, March 23.

We would appreciate coordination of this meeting with Mike Leavitt,
Office of Administration, Debbie Dietrich Office of Emergency
Prevention, Preparedness & Response, Sharon Hayes, Water Policy staff,
Anthony Moore, Senior Policy Advisor and Carol Jorgensen and Jeff
Besougloff, American Indian Environmental Office.

Please contact Lydia Darby, (907) 222-7714.

This announcement shared with me by EPA - Glad to hear they still have concerns I hope they put a stop to use of Inipol EAP 22 and Corexit for oil spill cleanups. and for the use of 2-butoxyethanol and diethylene glycol monobutyl ether at all!

[blues clues]

HC I've been trying to find out about something from the Carter years wasn't there a bill past through congress that people could make up to fifty gallions of whith lighting as long as it was used for mixing with gas if I could find out more about that bill I'll set up a still in my back yard. let me know if you remember if so tell me what the bill number is so I can study up on it.
have still will mix.

razz

[HARDCORE]

razz

Sounds like a plan!!!

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