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Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:04 PM

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 $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is >> currently $2.43 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 market >> place....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 whimp 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 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 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. >> >> PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE >> >> $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. >> >> THIS CAN REALLY WORK. >> >> Kerry Lyle, Director, Research Coordinator Interventional Cardiology >> Research Laboratories Division of Cardiovascular Diseases 932 >> >> Ziegler Research Bldg >> >> 703 South 19th Street >> >> University of Alabama @ B'ham >> >> hmmm...might be worth a try, folks....nothing else has worked... Get on >> board???? >> >> The most beautiful things in the world are not seen or touched. They are >> felt with the heart

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Ralf
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This is profoundly dumb. If you know anything about business and marketing, you would realize how stupid it sounds. This moronic "idea" was around in the 70's, except back then it was copied on paper and passed around.

Plus the numbers are crap. Only 78% of the population is above age 15 so you can't run around saying 300 million people have gasoline buying power. And who believes 300 million people are going to see this e-mail? And despite your best wishes, you can't boycott an energy product to cause a price shift so large.

I have a nice bridge for sale, please send a check.

Reply to
Fred_Emmerich

In the e-mail version I received a couple of weeks ago the exhortation at the end to e-mail all one's friends was much stronger.

This clogs the internet and makes it spam.

DAS

For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling

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Dori A Schmetterling

Chain letters like this are started so SPAMMERS can obtain valid e-mail addresses. Think about all the e-mails you have seen with hundreds of people on them. A SPAMMERS dream come true.

Reply to
Fred_Emmerich

Highly unlikely. How would the spammer get the addresses back to him? Do you think spammers take the trouble of manually harvesting addresses from mails that happen to come by??

Ximinez

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The Spanish Inquisition

All they need is one email and they have programs to do this. Very simple and automatic. It is estimated 85% of addresses are obtained by chain letters.

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FredEmmerich

Estimated by whom? More often they buy them from AOL (LOL).

Spiders that crawl the web and suck addresses from web pages are also a HUGE source.

And then of course there is Usenet (ohmyf'ngod).

Anyhow, That's what the BCC field is for.

Marty

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Martin Joseph

Chain letters and joke e-mails with 10,000 forwards on them generate tons of addresses. I use the BCC or delete them all and I never do chain letters. I don't get SPAM and I have had this e-mail for years.

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FredEmmerich

And I have personal, irrefutable evidence of that (obtained unintentionally, mind)

DAS

For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling

Reply to
Dori A Schmetterling

Well your going to get tons of it now.

You just exposed it on usenet!

Reply to
Martin Joseph

Its not a real address. Mail forwarding.

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FredEmmerich

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Rainmaker

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