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Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 2:02:56 PM

HydroMaster

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This was a bulletin sent to me on myspace today....I'm spreading it to this site as well to try to get it spread as much as possible.

The gas companies are taking us for every penny. Because of thier greed, the cost of everything has gone up. This weekend is a peak weekend for gas companies. More people travel the first weekend of summer then at Christmas. They know this. Gas prices have increased by almost 1.50 in the past month and are anticipated to increase .30 this weekend and not come down until the end of summer. What a surprise, their excuse is there are too many refineries down for service. Well that's convienent. Isn't amazing how all those refineries happened to need servicing during Memorial weekend!

Most boycotts are held during the week which is not very effective. If we really want to put it to them, then this weekend from Saturday Through Monday everyone needs to try to avoid buying gasoline. Its understandable that people have plans, but everyone needs to do what they can to not buy gas this weekend.

So everyone join together to boycott the purchase of gas during their biggest money making weekend of the year. Quit buying new cars for CEO's children and padding polititians pockets. Force the prices down so you can buy YOUR children new cars and pad YOUR pocket.

JUST SAY "NO" TO GASOLINE MAY 26 -MAY 28.

BOYCOTT...BOYCOTT...BOYCOTT

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 2:49:47 PM

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

I never got that bulliten :( Add me to your friends list on there so I get the important info, please {bats big brown eyes}

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 2:58:11 PM

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I just gave you the whole bulletin already. What's your myspace name?

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 2:58:37 PM

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Ok, I'm in!

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 2:59:19 PM

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Let's see...

I'll fill my SUV up on Thursday. After my 13.6 Mile round trip commute to work on Friday, that should leave plenty in the tank. My plans for Saturday were to do a little garage/yard sale-ing; but that usually only ends up to a total of 30-50 miles. I may have to go to the grocery store for some hot dogs, roles and chips; adding another 10 miles. My plans for Sunday and the holiday were to stay home, enjoy the hot-tub/pool and soak up the sun.

I'm in!

I'm boycotting!

I bet those big oil company executive will be shaking in their boots hearing about my plans! My guess is that many of them will be doing the same thing.

As Belushi said to the folk guitar player on the stairs in 'Animal House'...

..."Sorry!"

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 3:02:16 PM

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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.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 3:03:36 PM

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I agree with the principle, but I think the Myspace bulletin relaying of said principle is inane. I hardly ever read my Myspace bulletins anymore because they are abused to post boring surveys and stupid forwards that require you to repost it in 1.23089 seconds or midgets will shave off your nipples. But hey, if you get it posted in that time frame, you will become president and find your true love.

Seriously, though, it's not the best medium for passing around a politically minded message if people want it to be taken seriously. I did see this one, and I immediately wrote it off because it came from several people who were notorious for flooding the bulletins with crap.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 3:03:51 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: HydroMaster

I just gave you the whole bulletin already. What's your myspace name?

www.myspace.com/rose_beauty

Cool. Now I can stay in the loop.

I text my friends, everyone is in, an I asked them to spread the word via txt msg as well. Lets see what those greedy oil execs do after this. myspace is a BIG blabber mouth, lots of people.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 3:09:20 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Zensee

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.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 3:10:33 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: "Legendary", Robert Zakheim

I don't do much topical humor, so to explain panel 5, there's a movement going on in the United States where people are planning to boycott gas stations for one day which will cause gas prices to drop because HOLY CRAP, GUYS, GAS SALES ARE DOWN FOR ONE DAY, WE BETTER DROP OUR PRICES BECAUSE WE CANNOT FUNCTION ONE DAY IF OUR PROFITS ARE LOWER. But, hey, I'm just an internet comic guy, what do I know?

And, after the boycott weekend, your tanks will all be low on gas and you'll need to fill up even more, causing higher sales on following days. When the prices will likely be a couple cents more per gallon.

Conservation, people.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 3:19:51 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: NakedOnMyChain

I agree with the principle, but I think the Myspace bulletin relaying of said principle is inane. I hardly ever read my Myspace bulletins anymore because they are abused to post boring surveys and stupid forwards that require you to repost it in 1.23089 seconds or midgets will shave off your nipples. But hey, if you get it posted in that time frame, you will become president and find your true love.

Seriously, though, it's not the best medium for passing around a politically minded message if people want it to be taken seriously. I did see this one, and I immediately wrote it off because it came from several people who were notorious for flooding the bulletins with crap.

Sorry, I don't have a national phone directory handy or I'd call. No it isn't all that efficient, but it's the fastest way I can think of on short notice. So take this post and take it to any other meeting site you can think of and post it there as well. Copy it into your emails and send it to everyone you know. Then they do the same and so on and so on.....now that I think of it internet word of mouth is the fastest thing we have really.

Here is why doing this over the weekend hurts them. They are going to raise the price $.30/gallon for the weekend. Filling up before the weekend shaves off the $.30/gallon extra profit they would have been recieving. Multiply that by god knows how many gallons we'll use on the weekend and you end up with a loss of a couple million from what their expected earnings were supposed to be.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 3:20:41 PM

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Prices are going down anyway. If you look at the EIA's historical data, refinery run rates approached Katrina-lows in Feb 2007 of 84%. The latest petroleum inventory report indicates that refinery utilization is currently at 91%. It will take about a month for gasoline prices to drop at the pump, but prices have peaked for now.

Of course, one hurricane in the Gulf region will spike us to $4 in nothing flat.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/weekly_petroleum_status_report/current/txt/wpsr.txt

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 3:26:32 PM

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....it is just an excuse. There is always one excuse or another. Once the production is up they'll come up with something else. This is nothing but corporate greed. It's the dark shitty screw over your fellow man to make a buck side of capitolism.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 3:27:28 PM

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Yeah!

Boycott the weekend!

I am going to give all those damn trade unionists (who brought the rest of you the weekend) the finger and work.

That will show them!

Sinergy

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 4:27:07 PM

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this morning when i did laundry - gas at the station was 3.69. exactly 6hrs later, the price jumped to 3.79. this weekend it will be at 3.89 or 3.99

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 5:17:45 PM

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What level of profit margin (NOTE this is not the same as gross profit) would you consider to be acceptable?
5% 10% 15% there are many industries that make far higher profit margins than the Oil Companies.
Even looking at the "record profits" of Exxon Mobil for the last quarter 9.98 billion Dollars They still didn't manage to make more than 10% profit on thier investment.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 5:30:05 PM

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Crack spreads, or the profit margin on turning a barrel of crude into a barrel of refined products (gasoline or distillates) has increased 400% over the last few months. The historical average profit is $9/barrel, and it's above $36/barrel at the moment. I know because I owned Valero last summer when people said a $12/barrel crack spread was unsustainable.

I would add that gasoline is no different from electricity, water, or natural gas. They are all essential commodities in a modern economy and there is no reason these three should be regulated while gasoline is not.

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 5:39:59 PM

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i will be working on my hydrogen project been in for a long time and doing something about it too!! LOL

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 5:51:41 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Zensee

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.

I agree. Whether you buy it before, or you buy it during the weekend. It is not going to stop the flow of money into the gas companie's pockets. They'll get your money anyways.

< Message edited by DementedGirl -- 5/23/2007 5:55:37 PM >

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RE: Tired of high gas prices-Boycott the weekend - 5/23/2007 5:59:09 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Archer
What level of profit margin (NOTE this is not the same as gross profit) would you consider to be acceptable?
5% 10% 15% there are many industries that make far higher profit margins than the Oil Companies.
Even looking at the "record profits" of Exxon Mobil for the last quarter 9.98 billion Dollars They still didn't manage to make more than 10% profit on thier investment.

When boiled down to percentages those don't look like great numbers but we billions of dollars in profits in a quarter....the yearly profits are even more fun to look at. The CEO's sitting their lovely mansions with numerous luxury vehicles already have plenty. They can afford to throw the working class a friggin bone once in a while and take a small cut out of those profits. So, I'm sorry if I don't feel bad about them only managing 10%.

On another note, Archer....I took your advice from a while back and took up longbow archery....loving it so far. I haven't gone hunting as of yet. Deer season isn't for a few months here, looking forward to it though.

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