We Can Control Gas Prices!

(I originally posted this on Monday, September 05, 2005 when I started my first blog ever. Since then I've learned what I was doing and I deleted the original one and added this to all my others.)

Are you paying over $3 for a gallon of gas? Of course you are. So is most of the country. Will you be paying over $4 per gallon pretty soon? Of course you will. And where will it stop? Only the oil companies will determine that. Are they having annual losses like the airlines or do they go out of business like thousands of businesses across the country?

To the contrary, they are having record profits each year. You know this story. Nothing new here. And the funny thing is.....there's never an invetigative news report looking into their profits and bringing it to public light. Oh, you might see a small paragraph or two in the business section once in a great while but I bet you that it's printed in pretty small type!So let's not rehash all that. Let's get straight to the point.

My plan to get oil prices back down to UNDER $2 a gallon. It's simple, it's can be done, it's won't take very long and the best part.....it won't take most people any effort at all to accomplish. However, there is one small ctach.....it will NOT work unless we all do it together. Everyone of us, not half or three-quarters of the population but 100% participation will allow us to almost make the prices what we want.

Here's how it works: Part 1---On an advanced published date ALL people buying gasoline for their vehicles will STOP buying ANY gas (not one drop) from ANY Exxon gas station. That's all there is to it! You did your part without breaking a sweat, setting your alarm clock, missing any carbs or calories, giving up any illeagal drugs or other vices or missing any of your favorite TV reality show. How's that for simple?Allow me to pause and let that sink in...............Read that last paragraph again, go ahead, I'll wait......................

Now, a question to you: What happens when the big wheels at Exxon are playing a round of golf in Hawaii and some low-level flunky has to interrupt them at the nineteeth hole and tell them that NONE of their stations sold one drop of gas that day? What if they were told that none of the stations sold a drop of gas that entire week? Are you following me? How scary would that be? I'm betting there wouldn't be enough anti-acid tablets or toilet paper at the entire country club to handle their reaction!

Here's the best part.....what would they do when a month went by without them selling a single drop of gasoline on this planet? Do you really think they would go an entire week without trying to sell some gas? I don't think they'd go much more than the second day before they tried to figure out how to move some of that liquid gold sitting in their tanks. What could they do to sell some of that gas after that happened? (I think I can see you starting to smile now). Drum roll please...........They lower their prices.

Now you're ready for Part 2. Trust me, it's as easy as Part 1.Regardless of how low their prices drop we still do not buy any of their gas. We simply wait for the price to get to a predetermined amount, say $2.30 per gallon. At that point in time we then drive our SUVs, Hummers, 4x4 full-sized pickup trucks and our foriegn imports back to the Exxon pumps and we fill 'em up! And we keep filling them up.....as long as the price stays at that amount.

Oh, there's a Part 2b you need to know about: All the while that we're pumping those thousands and thousands of gallons at all Exxon stations, we are NOT buying ANY gas at any Shell station! That's it. Then we simply go back to Part 1 with Shell, only this time we don't buy one drop of their gas until they drop the price to $2.10! And the cycle starts over again until we get gas to UNDER $2 a gallon and it stays there! If Exxon matches Shell's price then we can buy from both companies while we stop buying from Mobile stations. You see where this is going. If you want it to happen a little sooner than we stop buying from Exxon AND Shell at beginning.

The gas companies simply cannot afford to let their gas sit in the tanks for more than a couple of days, a week at most. I'll go into more detail about that later. And I'll get more specific about the finer details later also. I just wanted to get out the idea first and get people to thinking that, "Hey, this could be so simple that it will actually work". So let me post this right now and check back for more on my plan in a few days. Please post your comments and let's get this idea spread across the country as fast as we can. Unless you enjoy putting most of your week's salary into your gas tanks!Now....go tell a friend!