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Audreyvgs
05-14-2004, 12:19 AM
May 19 is the day. Don't buy 1 drop.

This is the email that got forwarded to me, with about 10,000 email adresses above it, gawd.



IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES DID NOT PURCHASE GASOLINE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES.

AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET LOSS OF OVER 4.6 BILLION DOLLARS WHICH AFFECTS THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE OIL COMPANIES.

THEREFORE MAY 19TH HAS BEEN FORMALLY DECLARED "STICK IT UP THEIR behind " DAY AND THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION SHOULD NOT BUY A SINGLE DROP OF GASOLINE THAT DAY.

THE ONLY WAY THIS CAN BE DONE IS IF YOU FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN AND AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN TO GET THE WORD OUT.

WAITING ON THIS ADMIINSTRATION TO STEP IN AND CONTROL THE PRICES IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REDUCTION AND CONTROL IN PRICES THAT THE ARAB NATIONS PROMISED TWO WEEKS AGO?

REMEMBER ONE THING, NOT ONLY IS THE PRICE OF GASOLINE GOING UP BUT AT THE SAME TIME AIRLINES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES, TRUCKING COMPANIES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES WHICH EFFECTS PRICES ON EVERYTHING THAT IS SHIPPED. THINGS LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING, BUILDING MATERIALS, MEDICAL SUPPLIES ETC. WHO PAYS IN THE END? WE DO!

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IF THEY DON'T GET THE MESSAGE AFTER ONE DAY, WE WILL DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.

SO DO YOUR PART AND SPREAD THE WORD. FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND MAKE MAY 19TH A DAY THAT THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES SAY "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"

nycwriters
05-14-2004, 12:53 AM
Thank God I'm not driving anymore, it's up to $2.11 a gallon here for regular.

Red Princess
05-14-2004, 12:55 AM
$2.39 for regular yesterday

masterofNone
05-14-2004, 01:11 AM
won't people just have to buy more gas on the 20th? i mean, the gas companies will still get their money, just a day later. no?

priceyfatprude
05-14-2004, 01:16 AM
Yes.

Up to $2.05 here.

Clytie
05-14-2004, 03:21 AM
i paid $1.99 but i had to search for it...everywhere it was well over $2! im all behind anything to get it back to reasonable prices...we have TONS of oil from alaska and texas...we Xport it! hello...lets just keep it here

zenbabe
05-14-2004, 05:02 AM
They do this every year..it doesn't work...my advice to you is to fill up before Memorial Day Weekend......

funkytuba
05-14-2004, 07:37 AM
As with every year, the ALL CAPS on this one set off my bogus meter.

Wanted to get "proof" though... so here it is:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/nogas.asp



God bless snopes.com

madasacutsnake
05-14-2004, 08:54 AM
$2.45 per gallon. Stop whingeing.

Audreyvgs
05-14-2004, 09:28 AM
I don't care if it's an urban legend or not. I like it. Besides, I don't buy from any of the biggies, exxon, mobil.....as they're higher than giraffe pusssy anyway. (hahah, thats from my friend stevie from maine)

funkytuba
05-14-2004, 09:41 AM
Originally posted by Audreyvgs
I don't care if it's an urban legend or not. I like it. Besides, I don't buy from any of the biggies, exxon, mobil.....as they're higher than giraffe pusssy anyway. (hahah, thats from my friend stevie from maine)

They've got one for that ailment too...

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/gasout.htm

Now, mind you, if you're doing it because the other gas is a better deal, no biggie...

lvlycwgirl
05-14-2004, 11:37 AM
We had a new gas station open and for their grand opening they had their gas @ $1.49 (insteady of $1.80). Cars were lined up like it was free. Within 6 hours of opening they drained the tanks.

The next day...$1.90

priceyfatprude
10-19-2004, 10:14 PM
$2.15 today.

Spicy Jack
10-19-2004, 10:17 PM
*pfft*

2.39

Coffee
10-19-2004, 10:25 PM
between 2.39 and 2.45 depending on the station.

The trouble with a boycott that costs the "companies" money...is that they will raise prices the next day to make it up and keep them up till they have doubled their losses.

My favorite expression is "Lower than whale shit"...that sums up the gas companies pretty good.

Spicy Jack
10-19-2004, 10:28 PM
Robyn Williams: Now, do you remember that stuff about collecting whale poo from last week?

Nick Gales: You’ve just got to be there. Whales thankfully, or in fact any animal who moves up and down in the water column, as a virtue of pressure of water will defaecate near the surface, which is very convenient. So you need to be around your whale and close enough in a small boat to see a large brown stain as it disappears beneath the surface and then we slip over and scoop it up with a very fine-meshed net.

Robyn Williams: There you are collecting your poo and you put it in your container – how much?

Nick Gales: Well, we don’t need very much, all we’re trying to do with this poo is to have a look at remnant DNA. So as the animal ingests the prey there'll be some DNA left over, broken down, degraded through the digestive process but left over in the poo and we only need representative traces of the DNA from a scat. So we’ll collect as much as we can and then take little sub-samples of that.

Coffee
10-19-2004, 10:31 PM
jeez...and I thought that was why they invented deep sea submersables...to collect whale poo, as well as to see what else was down there.

Aint science cool...even if it isn't always glamorous.