This just in - Gas price reduced

Posted on March 18, 2008
Filed Under Business, Cars, Politics, WTF? |

This came in today and I felt the need to add my own little twist to it;

My twist first (of course):

This is cute, but let’s consider the real problem. It isn’t corporations! It is this liberal tax happy congress (prior to that it was a tax happy Bill Clinton).

Check out one reality http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/wm1816.cfm. If you don’t want to read it in detail here are a couple of bullets

The total tax increase is estimated by the Joint Committee on Taxation to be $13.5 billion over ten years.
Other tax increases in the bill would bring the total raised to $18 billion.
By many measures, energy companies face tax rates comparable to, or higher than, those of other industrial sectors. For example, the average effective tax rate for major integrated oil and natural gas companies is actually higher then the average rate of 32.3 percent for the market as a whole, according to the Tax Foundation.
These tax increases would likely reduce supplies and increase prices in the years ahead by discouraging investment in new domestic drilling for oil and natural gas.

Here’s another neat little tidbit for you, not mentioned in this article; CITGO, owned by Venezuela, under the control of US hating Hugo Chavez is exempt from the new tax.

Please send this to the same 10 people you sent that previous post to.

Thanks

This is what showed up:

I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down?

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 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. 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