Help Control Gas Prices.. Should Read

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Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a
gallon by the summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to
come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.

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
$2.09 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. 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. PLEASE HOLD
OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.
THIS CAN REALLY WORK.


Kerry Lyle, Director, Research Coordinator
 
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sixtynine Mach said:
hey, at least someone's trying :shrug:

The problem is that Exxon/Mobile don't make the gasoline. Northsea crude and domestic crude makes up the smallest of tiny fraction of the world oil production. OPEC controls virtually ALL the world's oil. From there, it's supply and demand. When the price of a barrel of oil is $52.......then you add transportation costs, refining costs, re-engineering cost (octane, MPE....etc.), you get to another dead cost. From there, everyone needs to make a profit. As prices go up, yes, the oil companies tend to make short term BIG profits. This is because they have already contracted to buy and be delivered oil at a certain price. They immediately price their finished product to be in line with the new world market price for crude (per barrel). Therefore, they make some quick profit. However, if the price tends to stay there (high), eventually they will need to sign future contracts for crude at the "high" rate. They need to keep the "pump" price the same because let's say the per barrel price has stayed high but not increased in several months. Their profits go back to the usualy rate.

The reverse is if barrel prices for crude go down. Theoretically, the pump price will come down accordingly (even though the oil company has a higher cost into the fuel that's being pumped). This is why they tend to raise prices very quickly and are hesitant to reduce prices. BUT, ultimately they MUST lower prices, pretty quickly (just not quite as fast as they raised them), because other companies are constantly replenishing also and WILL lower prices to be competitive. So, oil companies tend to win big for a short term, when crude prices rise sharply. They tend to lose (to a lesser extend) when crude prices fall sharply.

The bottom line is that it's really not the fault of the "oil company." They are a trader and provider of a comodity. They are not evil. The EVIL is the monopoly that exists in OPEC. These slime balls do not set the price per say; but, they do set the amount of output, which is supply, which effects price. They almost always keep total output less than total worldwide demand.

That's the problem. It's not the fuel companies. The other problem is our desire to keep the air clean. I'm not for or against this stuff; but, in CA the price of high octane is about $3.00. CA requires all kinds of refinements that take time and cost $$$. CA refineries can't keep up (low supply) so price goes up.
 
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