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

[Stewart MacLund <sundie@lunaticfringe.org>]

Well, i WAS only talking in the sphere of gas pricing.  :)

Sundie...

brewtail@mediaone.net wrote:

> I'll remember how lucky we "yanks" are next time I get the bill for my health
> insurance.
>
> Stewart MacLund wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >
> > >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >