I got this in my e-mail today, and I think it is not such a bad idea.
This relates specially to ppl living in Ontario
If you don't feel like reading the whole thing her is the summary:

- Oil companie have been fucking us around for a long time
- It is expected for the gas prices to up to 90 c./l. this summer
- Stop buying gas from two biggest companies ESSO and SHELL for the rest of the year.
- They will be forced to reduce gas prices
- Send this out to people on you mailing list if you want to.

THIS IS NOT A STUPID CHAIN LETTER

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For those who care about gasoline prices, please read the following message and pass it on to others.

United, we - the gas consumers - stand to gain.

Rumour has it we are going to hit close to 90 cents a litre (Canadian) by
this 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 50.9 cents is super cheap.
Me too! It is currently 68.9 cents 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 liter of
gas is CHEAP at 50.9 - 55.9 cents, 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), SHELL and ESSO. 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 SHELL and ESSO gas buyers.

It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp 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 itto 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.

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 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....

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* Stanley Szwagiel *
* Waste Management Supervisor *
* University of Toronto *
* Tel: (416) 946 - 5711 *
* Fax: (416) 971 - 2994 *
* Mobile: (416) 676 - 6451 *
* E-mail: [email protected] *
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nice idea, i like
i remember last summer gas went down to 39.9 cents and everyone went bezzerk buying containers of gasoline
i wouldnt mind that summer price coming back and staying like that

Hmm, sucks for me. I drive 20,000 miles a year. I paid $1.39/gal today at citgo. Shell is up to $1.45/gal!

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Originally posted by Gucio I got this in my e-mail today, and I think it is not such a bad idea. This relates specially to ppl living in Ontario If you don't feel like reading the whole thing her is the summary: - Oil companie have been fucking us around for a long time - It is expected for the gas prices to up to 90 c./l. this summer - Stop buying gas from two biggest companies ESSO and SHELL for the rest of the year. - They will be forced to reduce gas prices - Send this out to people on you mailing list if you want to. THIS IS NOT A STUPID CHAIN LETTER -------------------------------------------------------------------- For those who care about gasoline prices, please read the following message and pass it on to others. United, we - the gas consumers - stand to gain. Rumour has it we are going to hit close to 90 cents a litre (Canadian) by this 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 50.9 cents is super cheap. Me too! It is currently 68.9 cents 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 liter of gas is CHEAP at 50.9 - 55.9 cents, 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), SHELL and ESSO. 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 SHELL and ESSO gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp 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 itto 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. 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 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.... ************************************************ * Stanley Szwagiel * * Waste Management Supervisor * * University of Toronto * * Tel: (416) 946 - 5711 * * Fax: (416) 971 - 2994 * * Mobile: (416) 676 - 6451 * * E-mail: [email protected] * ************************************************

they wont lower the prices you fools, theres too many cars as it is, maybe rised prices will reduce the amount of polluting crap...

and im not a tree hugger but itds blindingly obvious why prices are so high, specially with oil becoming increasingly scarce...

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number of cars increases in the world so pollution is definately not being reduced


gas prices are rediculously high, so i would try any crazy idea like that if it helps, who knows maybe it will, whether it is a direct or indirect effect. im simply sick of paying more and more for gas. in my city, its cheaper to drive to most places than it is to take the bus
besides, its not like shell and esso are the only gas companies out there. i think i'd rather support local canadian companies like petro canada than those rip off's

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Originally posted by Blake613 Hmm, sucks for me. I drive 20,000 miles a year. I paid $1.39/gal today at citgo. Shell is up to $1.45/gal!

I wish gas prices were that cheap in California. WHere i live the gas prices are about $1.75- $1.80 a gallon. And when i drive up to the bay area to see my girlfriend the gas prices up there are $1.85-$1.91 a gallon. I'm getting reamed by these gas prices....

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Oil supplies are not even close to scarce. That is a bunch of post-Greenpeace propoganda.

The biggest oil reserves in the WORLD are in the Gulf of Mexico. Yes, right off of our own coast. Why are these not drilled?

Besides, prices aren't high because of scarce petrol. They are high because of goverment taxs from this and other countries. I mean, how do you have a 35 cent difference between states? That has nothing to do with scarcity.

It is supply and demand. The oil is not more scarce for those gas stations nearest to the Interstate, idiots! lol. Supply and Demand. Thats why prices are higher during the summer.

But that idea sounds nice in principle, but won't work. I mean, I pay no attention to where I buy gas. I shop cheap, you will never get enough people involved to actually do it.

But whatever, treehuggers, please bitch me out. My REPUBLICAN ass LOVES it! lol.

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dude.. how the fuck can you call someone a tree hugger?

i dont want to sound like a complete dork, but there is only one earth.. and we are just going to fuck it all to hell, and only then will we realize what we've done wrong..

i dont care what political party you belong to, what country you are from, etc.. the world is everybodys, and with that comes responsibility. like minimizing wayste, not littering, and just respecting it in general (plant a tree mabey?)

and if you dont think we need to be freindly to earth, then you need to think agiannn. "Its not going to affect us" you might say.. but it does and it will! the supply of drinking water in the world is on a huge decline and if factories and what not keep poluting the water, we are in for some serious shit

anyways, just releasing some steam..

nevermind me..

nevermind

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i am not excited hehe but sounds like a good idea

lmao, shit man, chill. It'll be ok, I promise. Dude, don't lecture me on nature. I'm not a city boy sittin' in the suburbs with a rich daddy. I live on 23 acres that has been in my family for a long damn time. And I'm gonna live on it one day. It is all woods. I take good care of it. Don't fucking lecture me on that. I'm saying that the reserves are going down, but god damn, we gotta use something up, or we'll all be Mormans soon! I mean, I'm being realistic. Ceasing consumption of water and everyone driving solar cars would be a terriffic idea! But come on, it isn't realistic. Comment on the thread man, not my ideas.

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We've had innocculations for some time now but the populace keeps refusing it.
You don't want it? Fine. Give me all the vaccine and a needle and I'll fucking overdose.
It'll be the best day of my life."

hmm...sounds logical. doubt it would work but if someone wants to start shit in vancouver, let me in on which gas company cuz i hate the prices as it is now and anything that might work i will try.

US and canada are being smart asses. they've got their own oil resources. canada has a major one in the prairies and i believe off of atlantic coast, in the atlantic or something like that.
but these two countries are using up resources of other countries b/c they can afford to and they are saving up their own for later

the states supposedly have cheaper gas than canada does, northern washington anyways
um, in canada, the only company that you could get a price like esso's and shell's is probably petro canada. super store has cheaper gas from time to time as well. i think in some parts of canada canadian tire also has gas stations.
i used to go only to petro canada until gd esso seduced me with their points card