Boycott Exxon

I wont be, There are mass emails being circulated saying to boycott ALL Exxon/Mobil pumps. What this will do is force Exxon/Mobil to lower prices. Make them sweat. When nobody buys there gas they will be forced under pressure to lower prices, when they lowere prices other brand will have to follow suit. I would say never buy Exxon/Mobil and just put them out of business. Exxon's CEO' are making unheard of profits and bragging about it. I say screw them and watch them sweat.

...nice tidy little profit

Imperial Oil announces first-quarter financial and operating results CALGARY, May 2 /CNW/ - Imperial Oil today announced net income for the first quarter of 2006 of $591 million or $1.78 a share, versus $393 million or $1.12 a share for the same period last year.

Now on to the message.....

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!!!! Do it now!

I hear we are going to hit close to $1.40 LITRE by next summer and it might go higher!! 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 on and join with us!

By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.00 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $1.10 PER LITRE 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 $99.5-$1.02.7, 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 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 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 people. 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 PETRO-CAN/ESSO UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $0.88 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK

I agree with those who said that boycotting will NEVER work and it will not influence the price of gas, not even one cent. We should instead conserve more gas. We can live closer to work, walk to work, use public transportation, buy a smaller vehicle, drive slower, ride a bike, ... etc. If you can afford to drive your SUV 20 miles to work every day, you have nothing to worry about. However, those of us who can't afford to do so are probably wishing you weren't hogging all the gas, so to speak. Therefore, get a place closer to work and start thinking about what you are going to do when gas hits $10 a gallon. I'm sure you want be driving 20 miles to work then, it would make no sense. We need to wake up and get ready for the future of even higher energy costs and do whatever we can now to be ready.

Fred

Moving closer to work is not an option for myself or my wife. Jobs are in opposite directions anyway. One is 28 miles the other is 16. No way I'm walking or expecting her to walk, No public transportation available, nor is there likely to be any ever.Vehicles we own are paid for and since we both need 4X4 due to working hours when the town doesn't plow the roads, and responding to fire calls in the boonies smaller vehicle won't work. Drive the speed limit unless in route to a call. Bike is out for the same reason as walking. Plus it would not be fun riding in a foot of snow or pouring rain.

As for your envy of others. Why? Gas is available to anyone who wants to buy it. That is another reason why boycotting these stations will never work, they will just sell the product elsewhere, or idle a refinery until it is profitable to run it again.

These are two totally different issues, weather you Conserve Energy or not will not effect big oil companies price gouging of an necessary commodity.

Many drivers are already conserving as much energy as they can. They are doing everything they can, living as close as they can to work, driving very small economy cars to and from work, etc. Yet they STILL have to buy fuel, and they are still very bothered by the big oil companies gouging them.

What the big oil companies are doing now is the same thing that Enron did a few years ago. Using fuel and electricity are no longer discretionary for most people in north American. They can't stop using electricity, and most can't stop driving. Even if you walk to the grocery store, the groceries are still getting there in a truck that burns fuel. The farmer who grew the groceries burns lots of fuel too, over 120 gallons a day in just one combine. Public transportation still needs fuel... Fuel use is not the same as drinking Coke, or eating Twinkies, nobodies lives are catastrophically disrupted if Coke wants to charge $300 for a can of Coke.

Big oil companies are now charging over $70 per barrel for oil that cost them less than $20 to drill/pump/deliver.

Big oil companies price gouging of an necessary commodity IS A BIG PROBLEM, For everyone, weather you Conserve Energy or not , weather you like it or not.

I guarantee there is a point where you would definately consider moving closer to work. Maby not $10 a gallon, but maby $20 or $30. Everyone has a price, so to speak. I was only saying that more people should prepare themselves for higher energy costs instead of just complaining about them. You can't expect our oil supply to last forever.

I don't envy others. I can afford all the gas I need and I was only being dramatic to prove a point. Sorry if I wasn't clear. And you are right, boycotting will never work. If you don't want to pay high gas prices then don't buy gas. I know this is impractical and insensitive, but it is the cold hard truth.

Fred

Price is set at a level at which supply meets demand. As long as we have record demand, we will have record prices. Better get used to high prices and prepare for the future.

Fred

We are already on the downward spiral, back in the 1970's was when they started finding less and less new oil deposits each year. Once the current oil is gone there isn't enough new oil being found just to maintain current demand. Synthetic oil can't replace the vast amounts of oil being burned, it hardly could cover the lubrication needs of the world. All those $300000 dollar houses that are 20 miles from anywhere will be worthless in 20-30 years since nobody will have the fuel to get to them.

There is no shortage of oil, just a limited amount of "cheap" oil. Canada is now beginning to produce significant oil supplies from shale rock deposits. With the increase in oil prices, this source now becomes viable. I believe they estimate Colorado alone has 8X the oil as Saudi Arabia.

This may be so, but there definately is a shortage of refineries. We haven't built one in the US for 30 years, thanks to those damn greens... jk ... Too many damn regulations, not to mention the expense.

But they have been expanding existing refineries. The major problems are market uncertainty and greatly increased demand from India and China.

Well, considering that wages are currently about 5 times what they were twenty to twenty-five years ago, what's the whinning about when gas prices join right in there? I'm not defending these high gas prices, but gas prices aren't the only prices that have gone astronomical!

Who's wages? In 1970, what was a welders wages? What are they now? In many places, they are paying welders less today than they were in 1970. That is not the only job that pays less today than it did 30-35 years ago...

I don't know what country you are talking about, but I'm talking about the U$A. For the sake of argument, assume your statement is true (which obviously cannot be in reality), the welder today making minimum wage (they always make more than minimum wage) earns more than he did in 1970, unless of course he's a doper lounging around in a lap of luxury purporting to 'get by' working two days a week.

NapalmHeart, This is not a Collectivist myth; but a truth. Trust me, on this one; I know. You are right about refineries being expanded. Not only expanded, but modernized. Not only modernized, but much more effient and enviromentally friendly to a degree. That degree being that the refineries can up their capacity by being less enviromentally friendly just by the flick of a switch. Next time, we should not elect politicians who make money in the oil business, and use oil executives to draft energy policies.

Why should I trust someone that can't recognize a collectivist myth for what it is?

Who should we elect? Those who would have us bend to the will of the UN and their socialist fellow travelers?

Oh, I see, so instead we should elect another war monger retard and get a few thousand more of our fine young men and women killed for no valid reason at all.

Re: Conserve Energy Group: alt.trucks.chevy Date: Mon, May 29, 2006, 12:57am (EDT+4) From: snipped-for-privacy@nc.rr.com (TBone) "NapalmHeart" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com... "Xclimation" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com... "NapalmHeart" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com... "fclaugus" wrote in message news:mPo6g.20434$ snipped-for-privacy@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com... "Tony D." wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com... john graesser wrote: "fclaugus" wrote in message news:Jmg6g.30271$ snipped-for-privacy@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com... I guarantee there is a point where you would definately consider moving closer to work. Maby not $10 a gallon, but maby $20 or $30. Everyone has a price, so to speak. I was only saying that more people should prepare themselves for higher energy costs instead of just complaining about them. You can't expect our oil supply to last forever. We are already on the downward spiral, back in the 1970's was when they started finding less and less new oil deposits each year. Once the current oil is gone there isn't enough new oil being found just to maintain current demand. Synthetic oil can't replace the vast amounts of oil being burned, it hardly could cover the lubrication needs of the world. All those $300000 dollar houses that are 20 miles from anywhere will be worthless in 20-30 years since nobody will have the fuel to get to them. There is no shortage of oil, just a limited amount of "cheap" oil. Canada is now beginning to produce significant oil supplies from shale rock deposits. With the increase in oil prices, this source now becomes viable. I believe they estimate Colorado alone has 8X the oil as Saudi Arabia. This may be so, but there definately is a shortage of refineries. We haven't built one in the US for 30 years, thanks to those damn greens... jk .. Too many damn regulations, not to mention the expense. But they have been expanding existing refineries. The major problems are market uncertainty and greatly increased demand from India and China. NapalmHeart, This is not a Collectivist myth; but a truth. Trust me, on this one; I know. You are right about refineries being expanded. Not only expanded, but modernized. Not only modernized, but much more effient and enviromentally friendly to a degree. That degree being that the refineries can up their capacity by being less enviromentally friendly just by the flick of a switch. Next time, we should not elect politicians who make money in the oil business, and use oil executives to draft energy policies. Why should I trust someone that can't recognize a collectivist myth for what it is? Who should we elect? Those who would have us bend to the will of the UN and their socialist fellow travelers? Oh, I see, so instead we should elect another war monger retard and get a few thousand more of our fine young men and women killed for no valid reason at all.