Everyone Please Read: Recognize Sept 1st as Stick it up their behind Day!

Here is a email I was forwarded that was funny and when you think about it a great idea. Please read, hopefully follow, and pass it along!


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vicki Tapp
> To: Rhonda Minton ; seth Tapp ; Stephanie Harris ;
> sjohnson@peopleplusinc.com ;
> vdavis@peopleplusinc.com ; Adrian Boyd ; Alice
> Sanders ; Amanda Huddleston ; Amy Sanderson ; Amy
> Workman ; Cheryl Selby ; Jackie Durban ; Jennifer
> Hall ; Jessica ; Kim Eickhoff ; Me ; Rebecca R. Peck
> ; Robbin Christian ; Ron Sanders ; Tammy Barron
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:06 PM
> Subject: don't buy gas on sept. 1
>
>
> Don?t know it this is for real?..but I?d be willing
> to give it a shot!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Vicki
> It HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN THE
> UNITED STATES AND CANADA DID NOT PURCHASE A DROP OF
> GASOLINE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE
> OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES.
>
>
> AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY
> WITH A NET LOSS OF OVER 4.6 BILLION DOLLARS WHICH
> AFFECTS THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE OIL COMPANIES.
>
> THEREFORE SEPTEMBER 1st HAS BEEN FORMALLY DECLARED
> "STICK IT UP THEIR BEHIND " DAY AND THE PEOPLE OF
> THESE TWO NATIONS SHOULD NOT BUY A SINGLE DROP OF
> GASOLINE THAT DAY.
>
> THE ONLY WAY THIS CAN BE DONE IS IF YOU FORWARD THIS
> E-MAIL TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN AND AS QUICKLY
> AS YOU CAN TO GET THE WORD OUT.
>
> WAITING ON THE GOVERNMENT TO STEP IN AND CONTROL THE
> PRICES IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE
> REDUCTION AND CONTROL IN PRICES THAT THE ARAB
> NATIONS PROMISED TWO WEEKS AGO?
>
> REMEMBER ONE THING, NOT ONLY IS THE PRICE OF
> GASOLINE GOING UP BUT AT THE
> SAME TIME AIRLINES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES,
> TRUCKING COMPANIES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES
> WHICH EFFECTS PRICES ON EVERYTHING THAT IS SHIPPED.
> THINGS LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING, BUILDING MATERIALS,
> MEDICAL SUPPLIES ETC. WHO PAYS IN THE END? WE DO!
>
> WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IF THEY DON'T GET THE
> MESSAGE AFTER ONE DAY, WE WILL DO IT
> AGAIN AND AGAIN.
>
> SO DO YOUR PART AND SPREAD THE WORD. FORWARD THIS
> EMAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND
> MAKE SEPTEMBER 1ST A DAY THAT THE CITIZENS OF THE
> UNITED STATES AND CANADA SAY "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"
>

Seems they would be doubly busy on Aug 31st though:drink:
Sept 2nd or 3rd would be busy too. Would one day hit them that hard??:hump:

nice idea, not very practical though

I've this stupidity before. What must be done is that no one drives for a day. Obviously, highly impractical but demand must be reduced which translates to usage being reduced

Subject: WANT TO BRING GAS PRICES DOWN???

Sounds like it could work.......

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 abou t $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.75 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 t heir prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.

To have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do!! ... 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 and DON"T purchase ANY gasoline from EXXON and MOBIL. That's all.


How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people with in 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 TO THE $1.30 RANGE
AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK

Won't matter. Once Katrina hits the Gulf we're really going to feel it down the road.

sb