High prices hurt gas station owners, too

Dropping Gas Prices-Please Read THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $1.30 PER GALLON. This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please. 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! It's worth your consideration. Join 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. The oil companies just laughed at t hat 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 $2.00 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $3.19 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 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 p u rchasing 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 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 x10 = 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 > conceiv ab ly 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 EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $2.00 > RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK. > > Keep it going This may give you something to think about ExxonMobil's first quarter net income was a record $10,890 million, up 17% from the first quarter of 2007. Earnings per share were up 25% reflecting the impact of the continuing share purchase program. Higher crude oil and natural gas realizations, driven by record worldwide crude oil prices, were partly offset by lower refining and chemical margins, lower production volumes and higher operating costs. FIRST QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS Record first quarter net income was $10,890 million, up 17% from the first quarter of 2007. Earnings per share were up 25% to $2.03 reflecting strong earnings and the reduced number of shares outstanding. Spending on capital and exploration projects was $5.5 billion, up 30% from the first quarter of 2007. Cash flow from operations and asset sales was approximately $21.8 billion, including asset sales of $0.4 billion. Share purchases of $8.0 billion reduced shares outstanding by 1.8%. LINK

STOP MAKING FUEL OUT OF FOOD(CORN)!!!http://www.hempcar.org/indexOLD.html

It is a long standing fact that the convenience stores made very little on gasoline profits. The sale of gasoline is to attract people inside to buy beer, cigs, candy, etc. That is where the profit is and has always been made. Notice that it has been years since a "filling station" has existed and even in those days they made their money off of service. It is only a matter of time before these fuel prices really affect the average family and prevent them from having necessities. The big reason for the high fuel prices is GLOBAL demand. Both China and India are trying to create a "middle class" and the fuel demands have shot up exponentially. While I doubt that it will happen in my lifetime, I would give anything to see how the oil producing nations would live without the worlds dependence on their oil. It WILL happen someday and I can guarantee you, they won't get a single bag of rice out of me!!!

If they aren't making a profit than who is? Bush, and cheney or the owners of the oil companys.. Why can't the state lower the taxs on it. What roads are they fixing? and nothing going to the school. They need money everyday according to them... fund raiser here Fund raiser there... Please get real. We are getting the shaft... They will charge it because we will pay.

i work customer service and spoke with a lady in california yesterday who said the gas out there is 4.75 gal.right now.

Maybe if Exxon was'nt so worried about making record profits, they could help the country out. Were going down the toilet while they get FAT. I love my country but the USA is made in China and Owned by big oil and the IRS.

Here is what I did a year ago. I built a Plug-in Hybrid. Plug-in Hybrids charged from renewable energy get over 100mpg! Look at the gas prices and you will know why they killed the electric car! 100mpg cars do help. I drive 1500 miles a month and I only buy about 15 gallons of gas to drive that far. In my Yukon I would have to spend 234 more a month on gas. That is almost $3,000 per year! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7801167825618010038 Yeah, a few hundred dollars a month spent locally instead of on gas won't save our economy, but what if say 50 percent of drivers did this too?