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Here's a letter one of my friends forwarded to me.

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----- I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon 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 $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $1.97 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 gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50- $1.75, 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 one), EXXON and MOBIL. 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 Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp 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 send 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. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician.

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 I 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 TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
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I thought I have a deja vu when I saw the thread's title...
I saw the original theatrical release of the Old Trilogy on the big screen and I'm proud of it...
How did I accomplish that (considering my age) is my secret...
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So did I. I thought the old thread was brought back to life.
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Same here.

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Han Solo: I'm a nice man.

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same here.
"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."
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In my country we are depend on Russia šŸ˜¦

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I paid 3.09 per gallon on my last fill up.

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You guys are lucky. I havenā€™t seen numbers like that in months.

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DominicCobb said:

You guys are lucky. I havenā€™t seen numbers like that in months.

California notoriously has incredibly high gas prices. I remember when I visited there a few years back, and it was over $4/gal. Back at home it was half that. Now itā€™s roughly $2.99.

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I was blown away by how ridiculously expensive those gas prices were until I realized you guys pay by the gallon down there, not the litre, LOL. Up here itā€™s often been going up to $3.82 USD per gallon ($1.30 CAD/litre)ā€¦

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You Canadians donā€™t cozy up to those oil regimes of the Middle East enough.

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Handman said:

You Canadians donā€™t cozy up to those oil regimes of the Middle East enough.

Thatā€™s cause weā€™re already thralls to the Wendigo and Snow Queen.

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Most of us living on the rest of planet earth would love to be paying those low-low prices you guys are talking about šŸ˜‰

https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/

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Well, 2022 now and yikes how thatā€™s going. Averaging right under $5.00 in the States. At least these past couple of weeks its gone down a little bit.

Move along, move along.

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In CA were pushing $6.27 averageā€¦

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