No hurricane, yet oil closes in on all time high

Live in an urban area. Ride a bus..:)

Alan

At some point we have to attempt to do SOMETHING that will say enough is enough. Face it, the Oil Industry is an old fashioned Monoploy. No it's not a single company making the call and setting prices, it's obviously three. We all have to buy gasoline to get to work every day....So how do we knock down one or all 3....The only way I can see is the good 'ol boycott system. Will it work, who knows...I would prefer that everyone ride a bike to work, but that's just now realistic in the US today....

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This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It's worth your consideration.

Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.

Phillip Hollingsworth 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 on and

join with us!

By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 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 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 30. If each of us 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 group 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 e-mail 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. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

This is silly. If Exxon/Mobil can't sell oil here, they'll sell it to the Chinese...or the Indians...or whoever else needs more oil (read: pretty much everyone). This is a global marketplace.

KidStallyn wrote:

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This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It's worth your consideration.

Yeah, my consideration is that the originator and anyone who further disseminates it is an idiot who does not understand the marketplace.

"The only practical way of reducing gasoline prices is through the straightforward means of buying less gasoline, not through a simple and painless scheme of just shifting where we buy it. The inconvenience of driving less is a hardship too many people apparently aren't willing to endure, however."

and i doubt 300 million people have email.

Neuropsychiatrist wrote:

this is no different than our elected public officials who send our young off to war yet would never think of sending their own children there...

Why do people continue to spout this completely brainless line?

Since when do parents in the US have any ability to 'send' their fully grown, legally adult children anywhere, whether it is to Iraq or the corner store for some milk?

Key point you mention though, you're talking about "elected public officials". If you don't like their policies, don't vote for them!

Asterix wrote:

KidStallyn wrote:

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This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It's worth your consideration.

Yeah, my consideration is that the originator and anyone who further disseminates it is an idiot who does not understand the marketplace.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

"The only practical way of reducing gasoline prices is through the straightforward means of buying less gasoline, not through a simple and painless scheme of just shifting where we buy it. The inconvenience of driving less is a hardship too many people apparently aren't willing to endure, however."

Probably an Exxon Exec that works for Snopes.. :)

nicknamer wrote:

and i doubt 300 million people have email.

Probably true, but even of those who do, far too many of them are incapable of using their handful of brain cells and so continue to forward and post such silliness.

Might as well walk around with one of the signs Bill Engvall talks about.

KidStallyn wrote:

Probably an Exxon Exec that works for Snopes.. :)

Um, yeah. So you're saying that only an Exxon Exec would be capable of understand the basic economics of the marketplace as explained in the link?

What's your excuse?

It is the exception, but it is my scenario (substitute Wrangler for Explorer).

reality really wrote:

Oil man and geologist:

Unfortunately, your boy Ken Deffeyes has made about four different predictions in the last five years as to when global oil production will peak. He keeps changing his mind and pushing the date back. First he said global oil production had already peaked in 2000. Then he said it would peak in 2003 in his book (published in '01). Then he said in an article that he was 99% certain that peak global production would peak in 2004. Then he changed it to late '05. Sorry - not much credibility there.

Renewables are the future: Ethanol, methanol, dimethyether, Fischer-Tropsch diesel. Oil will only become more expensive as it dwindles. Over 80% of the oil producing countries have hit or surpassed peak production.

Why yes of course, that is definitely the most likely scenario...

KnowItAll wrote:

CO-Runner wrote:

Just last week, as I was driving through the People's Republic of Boulder, I saw a bumber sticker that read "No War for Oil" ... on the back of a Ford Explorer. Some people just don't get it.

Maybe that person commutes to work everyday on his bicycle and only uses his Explorer to get groceries once per week, racking up a total of 5 miles in his car. He uses the Explorer twice per year to go camping and his wife has a Prius and they use that for all their other commuting.

Then you have Mr. Enviroman, that is commuting 20 miles to work and home each day in his Honda Civic. He drives a ton more mileage, and creates more pollution than the guy in the Explorer.

KnowItAll wrote:

Maybe that person commutes to work everyday on his bicycle and only uses his Explorer to get groceries once per week, racking up a total of 5 miles in his car. He uses the Explorer twice per year to go camping and his wife has a Prius and they use that for all their other commuting.

Then you have Mr. Enviroman, that is commuting 20 miles to work and home each day in his Honda Civic. He drives a ton more mileage, and creates more pollution than the guy in the Explorer.

chuck d wrote:

that's a ridiculous scenario.

It's not completely ridiculous, especially in Boulder. The reason I thought of it is because I have a coworker that does exactly this. And I work in Boulder. I would say he commutes to work on his bike 80% of the time. Then he has a Ford SUV, and his wife has a Corolla or something.

CO-Runner wrote:People's Republic of Boulder

Just to add to your point, it's imperative that more of the car manufacturers start making future models FFVs -- flexible fuel vehicles. Most aren't, but some (Ford?) are headed in that direction. All the E85 in the world won't help if your car can't burn it.

CO-Runner wrote:People's Republic of Boulder

leftie wrote:Side-track, but I just wanted to congratulate you for your originality and funniness with this joke. Way to go!

It's not original. That's a common term that's been used for Boulder for as long as I can remember. The other one is The Bubble.

Some things for you all:

1) Drive a smaller car and live closer to your work. The amount of money you'll spend on gas even if the price doubles isn't that much.

2) THE MAIN reason gas went up now is that the refineries damaged by Katrina are not yet all back online as predicted. Couple that with the fact that the new summer grades of gas need to be produced, and we get a raise in prices. By the middle of June, the price of gas will be back down (lower than the $2.85 it hit here in Central Ohio today).

3) Exxon is allowed to make a profit, and even a HUGE profit as that company provides something we're all addicted to. They employ a lot of people and until we go to a very different source of energy, they will need to spend money to get more oil from the Earth (shale oil perhaps). Wouldn't bother me in the least if future technology made it so that oil companies went out of business, but until that time, I'm glad they make a huge profit.

4) Oh, and the hurricanes are coming. Almost impossible for this year to be as bad as last year, but there will be destructive ones. Global warming is a real thing (however you feel its arrival has been caused), and this just feeds the hurricanes (warmer water, higher water; this all equals more powerful hurricanes).

5) Alternative sources of fuel is really the best way to achieve things for everyone in the western world. Stick it to the Middle East by not having to rely on their oil anymore, and then just let them destroy themselves. conservatives and liberals alike should be pleased.

I was being sarcastic. As you said, it's a very old joke. And it wasn't that clever or funny to begin with and has been used with just about every left-of-center city in America by those with nothing else to say.