I Hate Chain Letters

Speaking of painters... I dated a painter once. Twice.
Years ago. I haven't heard from him since except
this morning I got a chain mail from him in my bulk folder.

You, too, can save the world with just 10 e-mails
(oh, no, not the world, some money.)



> >> >      THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS
FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL
SHOW YOU
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> >> >     HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO
$1.30 PER GALLON.
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> >> >     This was sent by a retired 
Coca Cola executive. It came from
one of
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> >> >     his engineer buddies who retired
from Halliburton. If you
are tired
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> >> >     of the gas prices going up AND
they will continue to rise
this
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> >> >     summer,take time to read this please.
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> >> >     Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea.
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> >> >     This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the
"don't buy gas on a
certain day"
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> >> >     campaign that was going around last
April or May! It's worth
your
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> >> >     consideration. Join the resistance!!!!
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> >> >     I hear we are going to hit close to
$ 4.00 a gallon by next
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> >> >     summer,and it might go higher!!
Want gasoline prices to come
down?
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> >> >     We need to take some intelligent,
united action. The oil
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> >> >     companies just laughed at that because
they knew we wouldn't
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> >> >     continue to "hurt" ourselves by
refusing to buy gas.
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> >> >     It was more of an inconvenience
to us than it was a problem
for them.
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> >> >     BUT, whoever thought of this
idea has come up with a plan
that
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> >> >     can really work. Please read
on and join with us!
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> >> >     By now you're probably thinking
gasoline priced at about
$2.00 is
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> >> >     super cheap. Me too! It is
currently $3.19 for regular
unleaded in
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> >> >     my town.
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> >> >     Now that the oil companies and the
OPEC nations have
conditioned us
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> >> >     to think that the cost of a gallon
of gas is CHEAP at $1.50
-
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> >> >     $1.75,we need to take aggressive
action to teach them that
BUYERS
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> >> >     control the marketplace..not sellers.
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> >> >     With the price of gasoline going up
more each day, we
consumers need
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> >> >     to take action.
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> >> >     The only way we are going to see
the price of gas come down
is if we
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> >> >     hit someone in the pocketbook by
not purchasing their gas!
And, we
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> >> >     can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
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> >> >     How? Since we all rely on our cars,
we can't just stop
buying gas.
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> >> >     But we CAN have an impact on gas
prices if we all act
together to
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> >> >     force a price war.
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> > SOLUTION:
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> >> >     Here's the idea: For the rest of
this year, DON'T purchase
ANY
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> >> >     gasoline from the two biggest companies
(which now are one),
EXXON
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> >> >     and MOBIL.
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> >> >     If they are not selling any gas, they
will be inclined to
reduce
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> >> >     their prices.
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> >> >     If they reduce their prices, the other
companies will have
to
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> >> >     follow suit.
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> >> >     But to have an impact, we need to reach
literally millions
of Exxon
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> >> >     and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple
to do! Now, don't
wimp out
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> >> >     on me at this point...keep reading and
I'll explain how
simple it is
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> >> > to
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> >> >     reach millions of people!!
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> >> >     I am sending this note to 30 people.
If each of us send it
to at
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> >> >     least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and
those 300 send it to
at least
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> >> >     ten more (300 x10 = 3,000)...and so on,
by the time the
message
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> >> >     reaches the sixth group of people, we will
have reached over
THREE
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> >> >     MILLION
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> >> >     consumers.If those three million get excited
and pass this
on to ten
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> >> >     friends each,then 30 million people
will have been
contacted!
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> >> >     If it goes one level further, you guessed
it..... THREE
HUNDRED
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> >> >     MILLION PEOPLE!!!
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> >> >     Again, all you have to do is send this to
10 people. That's
all!
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> >> >     (If you don't understand how we can reach
300 million and
all you
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> >> >     have to do is send this to 10 people....
Well, let's face
it, you
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> >> >     just aren't a mathematician. But anyway,
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> >> >     so trust me on this one.
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> >> >     How long would all that take? If each
of us sends this
e-mail out
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> >> >     to ten more people within one day of
receipt, all 300
MILLION people
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> >> >     could conceivably be contacted within
the next 8 days !!!
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> >> >     I'll bet you didn't think you and I had
that much potential,
did you!
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> >> >     Acting together we can make a difference.
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> >> >     If this makes sense to you, please pass
this message on. I
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> >> >     suggest that we not buy from
EXXON/MOBIL

UNTIL THEY LOWER
THEIR
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> >> >     PRICES TO THE $2.00
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> >> >     RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
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> >>>>> >>  > > Keep it going
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> >> >     Remember everything is market driven!
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> >> >     To make it work you must participate.
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