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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/24/2007 12:31:50 AM

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In Australia the prices are high, the USA is only paying two thirds a litre of what we are paying, (i had someone convert litres and gallons and exchange rates for me), it costs a fortune to go anywhere here.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/24/2007 5:43:15 AM

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If you buy your gas before the weekend or after the weekend I don't see that it makes a difference if you are consuming the gas on the weekend, you are just deferring payment, not denying the gas companies your money.

Z.

Zensee, that's true.
There's got to be a way to get our hands on all that gas station money. You know, start robbing armored cars or something.

i get nervous when around those things. when they come from a store like a shoot out will soon begin.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/24/2007 5:46:23 AM

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Oh for the love of....I understand the poor poor oil barons need to make a profit. But they are making excessive profits and making it by stomping on our toes. The only logical reason anyone should be defending them is if they are making a profit by it as well. Do you guys have stock in the oil companies....maybe you work for them or something? I'm trying to understand why you are so content in giving your arm for a tank of gas.

this is what our grandfathers, uncles and fathers fought for?

well god fucken bless the usa. [look mom, no typos]

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/24/2007 5:49:24 AM

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it would be more effective to have a strike. an entire day where everything shuts down.

i must admit- i dont do the casual driving i once did. you know ust to get out of the house.

im afraid teh cat is out of the bag on this. compaints arent understood. dollars are. probaly the filthist peice of paper in your home.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/24/2007 5:57:12 AM

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Hydro,
This plan was tried a few years ago. Gas companies yawned because even with a few days of low sales, they knew that people would have to start buying gas again.

The best plan I have heard came from one of the environmental groups. Target the biggest gas company, Exxon/Mobil. Buy gas from anyone except them. That is not a short inconvenience, that is an ongoing drain on their income. They will be forced to lower prices to compete and when the biggest guy on the block does so, the rest will have to follow.

Gas companies are getting rich on our backs, and here in the US, with a president who makes his money from oil, there has been little done to even investigate whether these prices are really needed.

Spread the word. Don't buy gas from Exxon/Mobil stations.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/24/2007 6:02:24 AM

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Wow.. has it been a year already? This was done about this time last year too... right before they american buy out. Where all americans where asked to go shopping because all the immagrants where not going to shop and wear white tee-shirts. They wanted to show us how with them not here... how it would hurt our economy... well that back fired.

Anyways.. another gas boycott...... well like last year.. i'll fill my tank.. go only where I have to go. Which this year around after 6 years off.. i'm back at work. And I have to work over the weekend. But I have a 94 honda civic with 36 miles to the gallon....... I'll be just fine!..LOL

Good luck with it all yall... hope it doesn't ruin no ones Memorial Weekend.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/24/2007 6:39:24 AM

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ORIGINAL: ennaozzie

In Australia the prices are high, the USA is only paying two thirds a litre of what we are paying, (i had someone convert litres and gallons and exchange rates for me), it costs a fortune to go anywhere here.

Beanie

Do you blame your gas prices on some big bad political Bogeyman there, like we do here? Do your Communists there blame your Capitalists, and insinuate that Communism would deliver free gas (along with "free" everything else)?

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/24/2007 7:43:12 AM

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If you want to make a difference, park your car/truck/RV/boat for 3 months, not for 3 days.

I'm going on vacation this weekend tho, if you own stock in
Chevron and/or Costco, I'll be in your next dividend. Congrats.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/24/2007 10:13:13 AM

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it is a whole new world- i doubt there is ever a day we will return to the past- in fact it can only get worse.

the "man" wants it that way.

i combine errands. if i really wanted to take a road trip i would.

it is too late- there is nothing that can be done. 2010 it is supposed to escalate.....

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/24/2007 10:21:05 AM

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I wonder what The Guy from Boston would have to say about this and also global warming?

www.theguyfromboston.com

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/24/2007 4:49:06 PM

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Just as information:

Who owns Exxon?
You do. :-)
(perhaps you do). Better said, we all do. Technically speaking, 1,451 institutions hold 3,156,802,560 shares of XOM (Exxon’s ticker). That’s about half of its total shares outstanding. But out of this handful of institutions, you can be assured that approximately 4 million American’s hold shares of the Company’s stock, mostly in the form of their pension or 401(k) (the top three holders of the stock (Barclays, State Street, and Vanguard) are titanic mutual fund and index fund providers). What about the other half? Retail investors. Your neighbor, your friend, your co-worker. In fact, Exxon is one of the most widely held stocks, with a very high "float," meaning "insiders" (company directors) own very little compared to their peers.

Source http://innonate.com/2006/07/28/exxon-mobil-whose-devil/

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/24/2007 5:54:21 PM

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I'm game. I will fill up on the 25th and ask all my friends to do the same.

(And this is exactly why such a scheme will never work).

Seriously...do you think they don't understand this shit?

Even if it had an effect...the head of Exxon would come out and say "we heard you...loud and clear".

(And then they'd lower gas by 10 cents).

"Oh...sorry...I guess I didn't grasp the fact that even at 10 cents less a gallon...it was still way the fuck too much. But I did hear you (even as I laughed all the way to the freakin bank").

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