Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: FW: Step Two - Boycott Chevron - Pass It On]]

[Stewart MacLund <sundie@lunaticfringe.org>]

Hmmm.  What's incredibly funny about this whole thing is that we here in the Great
White North think you yanks have it easy.  What costs me $20 CDN to fill on the US
side cossts me close to $35 CDN on the canadian side.  And you think you have it
rough.  :)

Sundie...

George Turner wrote:

> yet another gas out...
> VR6 content..... is 500 hp possible w/ a street legal vr6?
> george
>
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> Subject: [Fwd: FW: Step Two - Boycott Chevron - Pass It On]
> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:17:50 -0700
> From: Kevin Wilson <qncucamonga@earthlink.net>
> To: Antoinette Kidd M Work <Antoinette.M.Kidd@kp.org>, Daphne.B.Gowans@kp.org,
>      David and Lynn <bgjohnsonn@earthlink.net>,
>      Deanna McGee <Deanna_McGee@countrywide.com>,
>      "E. Turner" <cturner@u.washington.edu>,
>      Earl_Harris@ccmail.sgo.sony.com, mfchill@aol.com,
>      ggaskins@ubmail.ubalt.edu, Gladys Stone <gostone@directcon.net>,
>      Jackie Washington <jackie_washington@spe.sony.com>,
>      Jim Lewis <jim_x_lewis@corp.disney.com>, Joan.V.Franklin@kp.org,
>      Kelli Duncan <Dunck@earthlink.net>, Melda Gaskins <gaskauf@aol.com>,
>      wilsonmm@pacbell.net, mgwlucky10@aol.com,
>      "SalyMule@aol.com" <SalyMule@aol.com>,
>      Sherri Camille Taylor <s.taylor@prodigy.com>, mzuri7@aol.com,
>      Stephen Hill <trickpelvis@aol.com>,
>      Tim Murphy <tmurphy@peoplesoft.com>,
>      "Turner jr, Earl" <getone@mediaone.net>
>
> Subject: FW: Step Two - Boycott Chevron - Pass It On
> Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 09:49:43 -0500
> From: "Pate, Wayne H" <wpate@indiana.edu>
> To: "'Agnes L. Hawn'" <alhawn@athletics.purdue.edu>
>
> > I'm sure you heard about the "gas-out" on April 30. Word spread so fast on
> > e-mail that the whole nation knew about it and the media picked up on it.
> > However, gas companies weren't scared because they wouldn't lose sales,
> > since everybody was buying gas on April 29 and May 1.
> >
> > So, a Las Vegas radio station has come up with a better idea to take
> > things
> > one step further. The radio station has suggested to boycott a particular
> > company, and refuse to buy from them until prices get back down to normal.
> > The radio station picked Chevron.
> >
> > In order to make this work, you need to stop buying from Chevron until
> > their
> > prices become normal again. Maybe a severe loss of business will force
> > them
> > to take action in order to drop prices and regain business, which will
> > force
> > changes by the rest of the companies across the board to remain
> > competitive.
> >
> >
> > Sick of paying close to $2 a gallon? This can work, but you have to do two
> > things:
> >
> >                     1.   Do not shop at Chevron
> >                     2.   Send this on to everybody you know
> >
> > The reason Chevron was picked because they were one of 2 companies who
> > started this whole thing. Chevron raised its prices because it shut down
> > one
> > of its refineries and said that they couldn't keep up with the demand.
> > They
> > used the supply and demand theory.
> >
> > They DEMAND more money because
> > they don't have the SUPPLY that its competitors have.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >