I am no expert at this stuff...but it cant hurt to try I guess.
I am tired of these prices too.................

Subject: GAS PRICES

PLESE READ AND PASS ON....

An idea that WILL work
This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola
executive It came from one of his engineer buddies
who retired from Halliburton. It's worth your
consideration.
Join the resistance!!!! 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? We
need to take some intelligent, united action.
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!
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 $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently
$2.79 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 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 $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP
THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK.

Spam email.
When you rcv an email that instructs you to "email this to ten people and your wish will come true. It really does work!", delete it.

i understand that it is a spam email. i think it is plausible though. i mean, if everyone just boycotted the biggest name in the industry instead of being stupid and going without gasoline, which is not going to happen, then it could work. i usually delete those types of things. they more or less just piss me off, but this actually sounds like it could be done.

This was debunked by FactCheck. org some time ago. If I remember correctly, the gas that ends up at station "X" in Virginia can easily come from a refinery for station "Y". The companies share use of the limited number of refinery pipelines and the end use location simply puts in thier desired additives. Then it is transferred to a tanker truck for delivery to the designated gas station.

LOL You'd have to avoid more then just the Exxon and Mobile stations. For one the only major brand oil company here in maine is Mobil and I don't use them anyways cause they are so overpriced. You'd have to boycott there associates as well. The only plausable way is for everyone to use less fuel. I do my part by riding my motorcycle to work and for my errends that will fit. Yes I'm still using fuel but I'm using 1/3 of what the car requires. And I can actually enjoy my trip to work.

I'm fed up with the cost of gas as well. So I've been researching online for alternatives.
I ran across LPG (Liquid Propane Gas)conversions for gasoline powered vehicles. Looks like it would cost around $3000, and you could get a tax write off for now driving an alternative fuel vehicle. I read somewhere that Illinois will rebate 80% of the costs to convert your current vehicle to LPG if you live in Illinois. Something to think about. Oh yeah...the $3000 conversion would be a duel fuel system...so you can still use gas. Will I do it? Probably not...but it's made me think about it.

There are lots of environmental nuts out here in Oregon, and I see a LOT of Biodiesel cars. There is a new dealership in Eugene that ONLY sells refurbed BioDiesel.

Personally, I want one of those cars that runs on fast food grease. They say the exhaust smells like french fries... mmmm fries. I guess some restaraunts will actually PAY YOU to take the grease away so they don't have to pay the disposal.

I thought I heard something a long time ago that LPG cars get horrible LPG mileage. Like I said it was a long time ago and this may not be true today.

(insert Homer Simpson here) hmmmm...french fry exhaust

About the LPG...after further research...it looks like you would get roughly 70 liters (15.4 gallons) of LPG = 50 liters (11 gallons) of gasoline.

Other research stated that someone would recoup the cost of the conversion within roughly 20,000 miles.

Oh well...at the very least, it's something to think about

prices finily topped $3 a gal for reg ol' 87

The only way to boycott the oil companies is to never use anything plastic and ride on a big wheel made out of wood.