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From: VJTaylor@upsfreight.com [mailto:VJTaylor@upsfreight.com] On Behalf Of Vinnie_J._Taylor%OTC@upsfreight.com
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Subject: Lower Gas Prices


This will work.
THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $2.00 PER GALLON.
This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. If you are tired of the gas prices going up AND they will continue to rise this summer, take time to read this please.

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!
It's worth your consideration. Join the resistance!!!!

I hear we are going to hit close to $ 5.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down?

We need to take some intelligent, united action. 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 on and join with us!

By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $2.00 is super cheap. Me too!

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 $3.50, 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 wimp 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 30 people. If each of us 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 group 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 30million 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. But I am. So trust me on this one.

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail 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 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. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL! THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $2.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.


Keep it going







Vinnie Taylor
Office Supervisor
UPS Freight
Salt Lake City,UT
(801) 887-2802
VJTAYLOR@UPSFREIGHT.com

Useless spam scheme.

Prices are only going to go up, there is nothing that can be done about it. Don't buy from EXXON or MOBIL? What other choice do you have? Sinclair? lol
Most all "independent" oil companies buy from EXXON and Mobil.

I am SURE this would reduce fuel prices.....Exxon would lower their prices to $0.009 below the price the Shell across the street is charging.

Oh wait - that's what they are already doing.......

I buy Valero anyway.

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Current Mercedes
1979 maple yellow 240D 4-speed

Gone and fondly remembered:
1980 orient red 240D 4-speed

Gone and NOT fondly remembered:
1982 Chna Blue 300TD

Other car in the stable:
2013 VW Jetta Sportwagen TDI / 6-speed MT

Drive less, carpool, use biofuels, don't idle the vehicle (I think if we closed every drive through window in the US it would save untold millions of gallons of fuel), leave 3 minutes earlier and slow down 5 mph on the highway...It's gonna take a LOT of people doing a little each to make a difference. A few people doing a lot won't work.

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1983 M-B 240D-Gone too.
1976 M-B 300D-Departed.

"Good" is the worst enemy of "Great".

now just wait a minute... the choices are simple
cut out exxon/mobil only buy from petro/BP... ignore the "no name" stations, prices are bound to be affected...






















wanna bet?
















first thing that will happen, (assuming it really worked, and nobody bought from those stations for a year... right...) exxon/mobil GAS STATIONS would go out of business.
the reduced competition for fuel sales would cause the other stations to buy up the property and sell their brand of fuel at those locations, and with fewer competitors, the price of fuel would skyrocket!
... lets just follow this a bit further.


lets assume it worked, and E/M went under.
now we have shell/BP/Petro running the place, so the prices go up further
so we boycott shell/petro ... they go under and only BP is selling fuel... in HIGHER and HIGHER quantities, they buy up the refineries left by the others, (using resources needed to "handle the fuel demands of the country" governments start giving tax cuts and incentives to get the remaining fuel companies to expand their supply) um... anybody see a pattern here? gas in the $30/gallon range. and production down to a minimum... 70's lines would be nothing in comparison. try living on 2 gallons of gas a month... food in the stratosphere prices...
um, no not a good idea...

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 560SL convertible
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
2005 Dodge Sprinter 2500 158"WB
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

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1979 240D- 316K miles - VGT Turbo, Intercooler, Stick Shift, Many Other Mods - Daily Driver

1982 300SD - 232K miles - Wife's Daily Driver

1986 560SL - Wife's red speed machine

Will this nonsense never end?

Nope.

you must mean independent gas stations, because independent oil companies do not buy from exxon or mobil. independent oil/energy companies SELL their oil to exxon/mobil.

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1980 300D

Some interesting links i came across over the years and recently:

Gasoline Grows On Trees
http://gizmodo.com/375011/gasoline-grows-on-trees

Thorium Reactors (not suggesting we put these in our cars! but interesting nontheless)
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sciencetech/i-know-nuclear-power-is-bad-but/978

Nano-Solar
http://www.celsias.com/2007/11/23/nanosolars-breakthrough-technology-solar-now-cheaper-than-coal/

Shell Oil Shale Extraction $30/barrel
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/002981.html

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Cruise Control not working? Send me PM or email (jamesdean59@gmail.com). I might be able to help out.
Check here for compatibility, diagnostics, and availability!

(4/11/2020: Hi Everyone! I am still taking orders and replying to emails/PMs/etc, I appreciate your patience in these crazy times. Stay safe and healthy!)


82 300SD 145k
89 420SEL 210k
89 560SEL 118k
90 300SE 262k RIP 5/25/2010
90 560SEL 154k
91 300D 2.5 Turbo. 241k
93 190E 3.0 235k
93 300E 195k

There are no words for this, only wave after wave of billowing laughter. Although beneath all the laughter, it hurts a little inside to know that we, as a species, are this silly.

Do people not understand simple math? Do they not get that GIANT companies have GIANT profits? How is it shocking to anyone that as GIANT an entity as Exxon has GIANTER profits than their town's mom-n-pop coffee shop?

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1987 300D, arctic white/palomino--314,000 miles
1978 240D 4-speed, Euro Delivery, light ivory/bamboo--370,000 miles
2005 Jeep Liberty CRD Limited, light khaki/slate--140,000 miles
2018 Chevy Cruze diesel, 6-speed manual, satin steel metallic/kalahari--19,000 miles
1982 Peugeot 505 diesel, 4-speed manual, blue/blue, 130,000 miles
1995 S320, black/parchment--34,000 miles (Dad's car)

When I first read the title of the thread .. I thought...this sounds like another Utah scam. The I opened it and saw Utah in the author's description.

We are heartland of MLM and pyramid scams and schemes/chainletters...how do I know.........I live here

respectfully it won't work

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81' 240d 4 spd 140k on the clock

i like the idea of slowing down... im getting much better mpg in my truck by going 65 mph instead of 85