d, intelligent action is taken, consumers can have a significant impact.

Last year, the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign was laughed at by the oil companies who knew consumers were only going to hurt themselves by refusing to buy gas, because of the personal inconvenience. Let's not repeat history.

BUYERS control the marketplace....not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up (currently between $1.50 - $1.95) and raising daily, consumers need to act. The only way we will see the price of gas come down is if we impact the bottom-line of the oil sellers and not purchase THEIR gas!! We can do that WITHOUT inconveniencing ourselves. How? Since we all rely on gas for our cars, we can't just stop buying it. We CAN, however, force a price war.

Here's the idea.

For the rest of the year (beginning now-March 15th), DON'T purchase gasoline from the two biggest companies -- EXXON and MOBIL. If they aren't selling gas, they will lower the sale price. If they lower the price, 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 simple. The person who started this email message sent this to about thirty people. If each of them send it to 10 more (30 x 10 = 300) and those 300 send it to at 10 more (300 x 10= 3,000) . . . and so on, by the time this message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over 3 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 only one level further, you guessed it . . . and THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!

So, please, COPY AND SEND (no forwarding marks, please) this email to ten people. (If you don't know how to do that, see instructions at the bottom of this email. *)

How long would it take to reach 300 Million? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within 8 days of origin. 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.

GIVE IT A TRY ~ JUST DO IT! If the oil companies lower prices, we all win. Start now by sending this to 10 people and filling-up at a non-Exxon and non-Mobil station. We will succeed!

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* Instructions to copy and paste....Highlight this message now after reading it from your inbox). Start at the bottom of these instructions and go to the top but don't highlight your sender's address. Then left click on the "copy" icon at the top (or right click to get a pop up menu then left click on "copy"). Next, click to write a new email, click cursor where you write the message and click on the "paste" icon--next to the copy icon at the top (or right click to get a pop up menu then left click on paste). Voila! No ugly >>>> marks to pass on to the next person. Be sure to list those 10 addresses and send. Thanks.

Peace is patriotic. (start highlight here)

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