Geocaching is becoming more and more expensive

[+lib]

Because of rising gas prices geocaching is becoming a more and more expensive hobby/sport/game. The following "chain letter" type scheme of how to fight gas prizes was sent to me today as an e-mail and I would like to open it up for discussion.

Here it goes:

 

JUST DO IT ok ! ! ! THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' GAS FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET GAS BACK DOWN TO $.90 PER Litre....hopefully

 

This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Hallibur ton. 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 $ 2.00 a litreby 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 $1.00 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $ 1.26 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 litre of gas is CHEAP at $1.14, 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 a ct 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,

ESSO and Shell.

 

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 Esso and Shell 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 s end 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 d on'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 in.I suggest that we not buy from Esso and Shell UNTIL 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 o THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO BELOW THE $1.00 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

[+WCoaster]

Wow, bad enough these things get sent around in emails, do we need to see it in forums too?

 

Sorry, but I choose to delete these emails and reply to sender with comment about wasting my time.

 

Thanks for that.

[danoshimano]

Gas should be $3/litre.

[+mtn-man]

Spam costs the world more than fuel ever will. Ban spam.

 

Hey, I just did!