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Feb 20, 03
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Operation: Make-Gas-Price-Go-Down.
I recieved this in my email. It's somewhat of a chain letter but it sounds feasible.
------------------------------- From a concerned Gas User Passing it on... don't sound like a bad idea to me!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $1.00 a litre 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 69.9 cents a litre is super cheap. Me too! It is currently 76.9 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 Litre of gas is CHEAP at 69.9, 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 PETRO CANADA & SHELL). 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 Petro Canada 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 sends 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. 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 conta 
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Feb 20, 03
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Sounds like a BS scheme to raise the stock value for someone who just bought a bunch of Chevron/Exxon/Texaco shares.
Yes... DON'T buy Canadian... go USA!! :finger:
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Feb 20, 03
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Thats possible, but it'll still force gas prices down :)
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Feb 20, 03
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shell esso and exxon are the largest gas companies...petro canada isn't even close to their volume why target them...this is a retarded plan that will never work. the gas companies control the supply therefore they also control the price, consumers just have to go along with whatever the prices are.
also gas companies don't compete with each other, its just like the airlines used to be, ever notice how the price for gas is usually the same no matter which company you choose?
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Feb 20, 03
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that so wouldnt work
and even if it did how long would it last? a couple of days? no offense but thats a stupid idea but dont but fromshell anyways they are a horrible fuckin company they have actually gone into the countries where they get a lot of their gas from and have acutally raped women in those towns in front of their husbands and burned entire villages just so they wouldnt have to worry about people living there protesting that they're drilling in their city and that they dont get anything out of it horrible horrble fucking company
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Feb 20, 03
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^Uh, every gas company is essentially bad and unethical. At my school it seems like there's a new poster every week telling us to boycott another gas company.
fuck it, they're all killing the environment just the same, supporting one or another doesn't matter because you're still contributing to a larger atrocity..etc. :) M
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Feb 20, 03
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please back this up somehow.
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Feb 20, 03
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Beyond all that, a huge componant of gas prices in the Great White North is taxes. Without getting into a huge debate on the evils of gas companies and how they are huge evil corporations from hell, essentially it is a supply and demand issue. Demand rises, supply falls, prices increase. There is a bit of a difference in terms of when prices rise in Canada versus in the US due to a difference in accounting and how they cost out their supplies that's not worth getting into here, except to say that it accounts for why prices may not go up at the exact same time in both countries.
We are a nation that is taxed to the max, IMO. One airline (Westjet, I think) had a one day promo last year where they were selling a Vancouver-Calgary flight for only one dollar (one way). After taxes, fees, levies, surcharges, etc., *(all government related), the cost was no longer one dollar, but $84! Its no different with gas. Look at that little sticker on the pump at many gas stations, and you'll get a clearer idea of how much of your gas dollar is government revenue. Moving your business from one gas retailer to another won't change this. The real irony, of course, is that it seems like everyone bitches and moans about things like this, but at the same time they want more money for this and more money for that government service. Push comes to shove, that money comes from everyone, even if you're still in high school, through all the taxes you pay day to day and throughout the year. Sorry for the rant...
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Feb 20, 03
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I don't believe that lil gaspump sticker for a second...it says its like 0.5% profit or something
If that were true, all the chevrons in new west would have the exact same gas price, since they're in the same area, and would get taxed the same, and probably very similar running costs... yet, ive seen as much as 10 cents difference between braid/columbia chevron and mcbride/8th chevron.
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Feb 20, 03
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Feb 21, 03
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you know whats weird is thatagine that bus faires will rise as well wich is a big hassel for people that comute to work (sorry bad spelling) but when the war hits the gas is gonna be so funny to see the prices that people WILL pay
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Feb 21, 03
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that made no sence
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Feb 21, 03
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sorry *boozy walks with head down*
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