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Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: FW: Step Two - Boycott Chevron - Pass It On]]
Being a former resident I was just playing around ;)
Stewart MacLund wrote:
> 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.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >