Lower gas cost

Having some control over gas prices... I hear we are going to hit close to $1.00 a litre by the summer. Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. 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! 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 69.9 cents a litre is super cheap. Me too! It is currently 76.9 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 Litre of gas is CHEAP at 69.9, 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 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 PETRO CANADA & SHELL). 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 Shell and Petro Canada 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 about thirty people. If each of you 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 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 email 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 AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

moved from car comparisons forum.

thnx dude ;)

A Dollar A Litre!?! I'm Paying $2.13 A Gallon Here You Lucky Bastard! Thats for the crappy 87 octane oxygenated fuel California pawns on it's motorists too!

Won't work: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/gasout.htm

yeah i freakin pay $2.35/gal of 91 octane

You could just invade a country with major oil fields and production capability.


Oh, wait...

better yet,send Grendel.I've heard he's keen.

im glad i live where i live for gas prices. i "only" have to pay $1.75 for 91 octane. 87 octane is always $.20 cheaper. i actually remember the days (when i was bout 10) that the gas was under a dollar.

You could just invade a country with major oil fields and production capability.
Oh, wait...

Gee wilikers batman! Thats really swell idea! Oh wait, it wont work because they'd just raise it anyways!

im glad i live where i live for gas prices. i "only" have to pay $1.75 for 91 octane. 87 octane is always $.20 cheaper. i actually remember the days (when i was bout 10) that the gas was under a dollar.
That's around what I it is here. For 87 Octane I usually see b/w $1.4? and $1.5?. So while it's still high, it's not near as high as a lot of other places.

A Dollar A Litre!?! I'm Paying $2.13 A Gallon Here You Lucky Bastard! Thats for the crappy 87 octane oxygenated fuel California pawns on it's motorists too!

California sucks. I'm paying $1.59 for 87 octane, and it's gone down to $1.54 since my last tankfull. Can't wait till I finnish the 360, then the oil companies can kiss my 66mpg rear end.

"I'm Paying $2.13 A Gallon Here" Dude this is per liter not per gallon!!!

and It's canadian dollar!!

Cdn$ 1/L=$2.90/gallon

Cdn$ 1/L=$2.90/gallon

Is that Canadian $2.90 or American?

american 2.90

how about you just buy the cheapest petrol you see and just tell everyone where the cheapest is?

I knew alot of people who did that. Hell even i did that when i lived in the US

a few people from my work said they read that gas was going to go up to $3.00 a gallon in the next year. I think this will kill the economy because if people have to spend that much, they arent going to be driving around as much, which means they arent going to be shopping or eating out as much.

I'm gonna go buy a hydrogen rotary.

a few people from my work said they read that gas was going to go up to $3.00 a gallon in the next year. I think this will kill the economy because if people have to spend that much, they arent going to be driving around as much, which means they arent going to be shopping or eating out as much.

I'm gonna go buy a hydrogen rotary.
See now, I would buy a hydrogen powered car too. But that's as far as I would go to help the environment. You couldn't pay me enough to drive an electric hybrid.

how about you just buy the cheapest petrol you see and just tell everyone where the cheapest is?

I knew alot of people who did that. Hell even i did that when i lived in the US

Only problem is, there's usually a reason it's the cheapest. Using ether or a cheap alcholol to splice into gas is a way to make it cheaper, but still somewhat runnable. I know when I was a bit low on cash and had to fill my Nissan up, (keep in mind this is a little pickup truck, nothing performance oriented), I bought some el cheapo gas and whaddaya know... the engine started detonating, very nice. I broke down and put another few gallons of texaco in it and it stopped.

As for the Hydrogen power cars, it'd be great... if it didn't use more energy to get the hydrogen than the hydrogen would put out being burned. Same problem with mass producing alchohol. I can't stand hybrids either, I wish they'd come up with something better.

Evolution of a phrase...

You couldn't pay me enough to get into one of those danged "horseless" wagons

You couldn't pay me enough to get out of my steam-mobile and into a gasoline buggy

You couldn't pay me enough to drive an electric hybrid.

What's next? :icon16: