what if we boycott exxon mobil for a while to make them lower prices based on supply and demand?
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GAS WAR - an idea that WILL work\n\nThis 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.\n\nJoin 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 Hollsworth offered this good idea.\n\nThis 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.\n\nBUT, 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\nmarketplace..... 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.\n\nHere's the idea:\nFor 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.\n\nBut 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 at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people.\n\nI am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends 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 w! ill have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!\n\nAgain, 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.)\n\nHow 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!!!\n\nI'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you?\n\nActing 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.\n\nTHIS CAN REALLY WORK.
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I don't want to create a conspiracy theory here - that the gas companies haven't built refineries, so that the supply has remained steady whereas demand skyrocketed, driving up the price...as the companies have seen quarterly profits that are unheard of.  I won't try and say that this was a carefully constructed plot on their behalf, ahem.  Well, ok, I don't think it is but I do think that they've been cheap and that their current plans to expand existing refineries won't solve our problems.\n\nDemand for energy will continue to grow (disproportionately here in the U.S...) and I really believe STRONGLY in seeking alternative sources of energy so that we can not only reduce costs for Americans (costs for living...crude oil costs affect EVERYTHING...prodution, shipping...driving up prices...costs to commute, etc.) but will reduce our dependence on foreign oil - doesn't get much better than THAT!!
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I seriously  doubt that will happen but just adding the oil into the market will bring prices down,but the American military hands are once again tied thanks to American liberal media looking for any excuse to accuse military of anything so called illegal in the eyes of the liberal world and in turn attach it to bush to try and bring him down.meaning military can not do its job and do what it was meant to do(kill,destroy,teach a lesson and make what their boots stand on American)
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Of course not. \n\nUnlike the case of the 1970's embargo, there is no shortage. Oil and gas are abundant. The oil producers and their cronies realized that a demand for the product exists at a higher price, and have proceeded to manipulate the market to jack up the price. Of course, the government is looking the other way. In the past, everytime they tried to do that, a small portion of the Strategic Oil Reserve was released and oil prices soon dropped. \n\nWhy is that not being done now?\n\nCan anyone guess the answer? \n\n(A cue: remember Farenheit 911?)
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Hmmm...Not really sure.\n\nI know that the "price freeze", if instituted by the government, would only apply to the actual sale of gas.  The price of oil COULD continue to rise (the foreign stuff (a LOT)), which would mean less of a profit for the oil companies, who buy the oil & refine it into gasoline.\n\nI can't exactly aswer your question, but a price freeze may not help.
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I think you are on to something.  Who cares if OPEC cuts production.  We have oil in this country too.  There is no reason why they should have gone down then back up again.
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I would assume they could set the price for oil that they produce at a higher OPEC level, since they would not have to deal with an open market that would drive the price down. But the disadvatage would be that they might not be able to sell as much oil, due to OPEC market restrictions...
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The boycott will work, Exxon won't let themselves go out of business!  We're not asking for free gas, and we're not trying to run them out of business!  We just want them to stop getting away with so much profit!  And there is no way anyone can dare tell me that they don't make profit, here is a NY Times article about the CEO's freakin salary, this gets me so FIRED UP!!!\n\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/15/business/15pay.html?ex=1302753600&en=89993dc20e1e7e97&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
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I think they would be within their rights to refuse to honor the price...But a good system would have somebody that cuts off the line by some mechanism so that everybody that's in line already gets the sale price.
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...just some quotes...\n\nBP\nCommenting to the BBC on its own figures, BP chief executive Lord Browne said the company's profits had been "magnified enormously by the high price of oil, high refining margins, and high gas prices". "We of course first of all make most of our money in what I think most people would regard as the wholesale market - that is the production of oil and gas - not in the refining and sales of petrol and so forth," Lord Browne said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4688106.stm\n\nExxon Mobil, Shell Profits Soar as Oil Prices Surge to Record \nOct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Marathon Oil Corp. posted record net income as demand growth and supply disruptions caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita lifted energy prices to unprecedented highs. Profit at Exxon Mobil, the world's biggest publicly traded oil producer, jumped 75 percent to an industry record of $9.92 billion, the company said today in a statement. The Hague-based Shell set the previous profit record about six hours earlier, when it said net income rose 68 percent to $9 billion.\nhttp://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=aaD5XaibDV48&refer=home\n\n...end of the quotes...\n\nPlease peruse the URL's to get the dates and maintain a true perspective.  Seems that when crude prices escalate and the oil companies have to charge more, they make even more...in otherwords they use the price hike as an excuse to overcharge us.  Of course we pay it.  There doesn't seem to be a better way to do this...If we federally regulate the oil prices then the supply will diminish. We will literally run out of gas.  If prices are regulated, the oil companies will only buy in quantities of which is still profitable leaving us with empty pumps like in the days of the gas shortages.  This is a free enterprise system and it just works that way.  If you want to be on the profit taking side instead of just the paying end, you are free to buy stock in the major oil companies as well.  \n\nWe are only victims in the system if we choose to be; not participating fully makes us a victim--participating empowers us.  It's like voting...if you don't vote you don't count.  Buy even a little stock in Exxon, Mobil, Shell, BP (just one share of even one of them) and see if your viewpoint doesn't change a little the next time you read news of crude prices rising or ethanol e-85 being adopted or automotive manufacturers moving towards hydrogen, etc.\n\nPlay the game.  Don't be a victim.
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Mabey we should boycott gas.  Let's say every Tuesday and Thursday nobody buys gas and see what happens....
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we cant boycott them, that wouldnt work. bicycles wouldnt make sense for many many miles to school or work, especially for out of shape people *phew.* i say... we kidnap someone. yeah. im not sure who, but we kidnap someone, like my mom maybe... and then not release them until gas is free! yes, free.\n\naw sorry mom. looks like youre stuck in the basement forever. cuz no one's listening.
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I dont disagree with your theory.  I just want to add one of my own that helped push the prices up.\n\nA few years ago the oil futures went on the public trading market.  Yes.  The public, the entity as a whole that believed everything from the world is flat to Milli Vanilli can sing, is at the helm of the future prices of crude.  Can you imagine what happens when the public hears that there was a problem, of any magnitude, to a oil line or ship?  What happens when summer comes around and naturally the public again buys up all the oil futures in hopes to make a quick buck.\n\nGreed is what drives prices.  The greedy people that are making the money will call it marketing/economics.  No one entity is to blame for the results.  It would be too easy.  Just dont leave out anyone at fault.  Bush, Iraq, war, EPA, tax, and even the public are all together and individually at fault.
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in response to neparis2001: How about a car that runs on bull$hit? The conservative republicans are spreading plenty of that around. \n\nOr, you can do what I do. I refuse to support MidEast oil. All of my gas purchases are from Citgo, which comes from Venezuela. The only way that OPEC and the big oil companies are going to lower their prices is if we start hitting them where it hurts - in the wallet.
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Just so you have facts. Clinton allowed the 5 major oil companies to buy up all the smaller (not quite a monopoly which is against our laws) Yes he knew why they wanted too. These 5 companies can now set the price and there is enough for all to make big profits. One of the claims they say is they are doing this in case of further shortages (baloney).  This is not silly putty (which no one must have) and the government should be able to have some control on peoples needs (remember our heating depends on this yet alone work needs and hospitals need heat and Police and Firemen need to be able to have fuel to get around). We are stilling getting the same amount of oil as the last couple years -we are using a bit (not much) less-so it isn't a shortage (yet).) Because these 5 major companies have a lot of money they also control some in government (yep-favors another story) . So it seems they can do what they want-they only have to answer to shareholders (be surprise who some of them are). Until the People or Media turns on them they have upper hand. Just thought I would give basics to you.
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None, It would not effect them in any way. We take oil now from Alaska and export it to Europe, best price. The energy companies wrote the legislation for republicans in Congress to rubber stamp. It's organized crime at it's Height.
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absolutley nothing would happen...everyone would buy gas either the day before or the day after, a one day boycott woud do nothing. G.W. Bush does not set the prices for oil...if Americans would accept that OPEC sets the prices and not be afraid to drill in less than 1/10th of one percent of AnWar and in the gulf of mexico (hwere communist cuba already drills) and decreasing the dependancy on foreign supplies, andin the mean time pursue feasible alternate fuels can we do something about the "HIGH" prices of gas.