Don't buy gas on SEPT 1! Would this work?

[NikFu S.]

I drive less than 500 miles a month so gas prices aren't bothering me.

It's the huge lines backing up into the roads at rush hour that kinda tick me off.
My favorite station is usually around 10 cents lower than everywhere but one place, and is near work, but I don't want to park on a major road to wait 30 minutes to fill up.

So I drive ~10 miles home and figure out whether driving back at 7:30pm will save me or lose me dough compared to using the place right near my house.

Then I worry about about why I calculated my mpg to only be around ~17 on this last tank. :/

[LarryIII]

Rather, than not buying gas, I suggest that we change our buying preferences. I have 4 cars to fill up. Three are SVXes one is an Outback. So I know what my local gas prices are and where I can get the best gas prices (How do you think Earl & I became rich?).

A friend of mine just sent me this e-mail. I'm posting it below. Let's finally put our money where our mouths are.

WHERE TO BUY YOUR USA-GAS

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The Saudis are boycotting American goods.

We should return the favor.
An interesting thought is to boycott their GAS.
Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia.
Just buy from gas companies that don't import their oil from the Saudis.

Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends.

I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies are the best to buy gas from and which major companies import Middle Eastern oil.

These companies import Middle Eastern oil:
Shell............................ 205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco......... 144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil............... 130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway... 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco............................62,231,000 barrels
If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amount to over $18 BILLION! (oil is now $55-$60 a barrel)

Here are some large companies that
Do Not import Middle Eastern oil:

Citgo......................0 barrels
Sunoco...................0 barrels
Conoco..................0 barrels
Sinclair.................0 barrels
BP/Phillips............0 barrels
Hess.......................0 barrels
ARC0....................0 barrels

All of this information is available from the Department of Energy and each is required to state where they get their oil and how much they are importing.

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 at this point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I'm 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 contcted!

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. How long would all that take?

If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next eight days!
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I say that you don't have to send out e-mails to 10-30 people. The heck with chain letters. Just switch your buying habits.

[94svxred]

Sent and done ARCO here I come ! Thanks Larry

[Mr. Pockets]

Originally Posted by LarryIII

A friend of mine just sent me this e-mail. I'm posting it below. Let's finally put our money where our mouths are.

WHERE TO BUY YOUR USA-GAS

Did you SEND IT TO EVERYBODY YOU KNOW!!!???

Larry, come on. The Snopes lesson was taught on the first page of this thread.

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

That email's been around for a long time, so the Snopes article doesn't include Arco. Those forwards mutate over time.

[94svxred]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pockets

Did you SEND IT TO EVERYBODY YOU KNOW!!!???

Larry, come on. The Snopes lesson was taught on the first page of this thread.

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

That email's been around for a long time, so the Snopes article doesn't include Arco. Those forwards mutate over time.

OK ! Where do we should we be buying our gas in America?

[94svxred]

Heck I guess I better start walking more!!

[Mr. Pockets]

Originally Posted by 94svxred

OK ! Where do we should we be buying our gas in America?

Don't roll your eyes at me for presenting facts.

I am not going to tell you where to buy your gas. I would suggest that you buy less of it in the first place, if possible, but I'm not going to tell you where to buy it.

Send that to EVERYBODY YOU KNOW!!!

[94svxred]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pockets

Don't roll your eyes at me for presenting facts.

I am not going to tell you where to buy your gas. I would suggest that you buy less of it in the first place, if possible, but I'm not going to tell you where to buy it.

Send that to EVERYBODY YOU KNOW!!!

I didn't mean to ROLL my eyes at you! My Issue is that my daily driver is an Escalade , My SVX sits nicely under wraps in the garage!! I have 2 kids and NO don't tell me to buy a MINI-VAN !I'm just not real happy with anything going on in the middle east right now , if you know what I mean! I can't and wont tell you what I would like to do there! !

[Noir]

Originally Posted by Mr. Pockets

Did you SEND IT TO EVERYBODY YOU KNOW!!!???

Larry, come on. The Snopes lesson was taught on the first page of this thread.

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

That email's been around for a long time, so the Snopes article doesn't include Arco. Those forwards mutate over time.

not only will i SEND IT TO EVERYBODY I KNOW, I will SEND IT TO EVERYBODY I KNOW 10X.

clean up yer mailbox nickolai, it's on da way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





























on another note, it's funny reading that people loot because they are black.

[benebob]

Originally Posted by Noir

n another note, it's funny reading that people loot because they are black.

What you didn't know that already ? Come on Noir haven't you been watching the TV all you life!

[Noir]

Originally Posted by benebob

What you didn't know that already ? Come on Noir haven't you been watching the TV all you life!

no i haven't. i just got cable a few months ago.

[Earthworm]

My low fuel light came on on my way to work today.

Gas also went up 11 cents a liter as well. I'm hoping to find a station after work that hasn't changed their price yet.

[Landshark]

Originally Posted by mohrds

I'm hoping it has a different effect. I hope that it curbs the suburban sprawl and creates more demand for urban development. If people only commuted 5 miles a day, they'd save money. People are fleeing the city faster than the urbanites are moving in.

If you had a car that got 10 MPG and commuted 5 miles a day versus a 50 mile commute with a car that gets 40MPG, you'd still be saving money and polluting less.

I'm sick and tired of seeing on the news that some new subdivision is demanding that the local government spend money to curb their wildlife problem. If they wouldn't have built there, there wouldn't be a need to spend tax dollars on animal control.

Just my $.02

Doug

so you're going to lead the charge and live in the inner-city then?

[SSSVX]

It looks like some junk mails can fool alot of pple.

I didn't forward the e-mail to anyone, anyway. I saw people still lining up
for gas today at 9/1/05.

It's unbelievable for the past 3 days the gas price has gone up like
$0.90/gallon. I remember the premium was like $2.79 3 days ago.
The premium has hit $3.59/gallon tonight. Some places
has hit a crazy price as $6.09/gallon.....

See this pic from cnn:



How am I going to do? What am I going to? I have to picture myself even
at $4, $5, $6 I still can afford that..... I go to gas stations
like 10 times/mth to gas up my cars. It's about 160gallons usage a month....
It's a big difference in bills...

[kuroneko_sama]

heck if i make my car pedal powered, itd still look just as cool on the inside....and id save gas..... which makes me wonder, why did fred flinstone go to gas stations?

btw... canada is the 51st state...aka "Even Norther Dakota"