Here in the UK there's a scheme currently being worked out which does sound like an exellent idea. www.pipelinecard.org if anyone's heard of it.
Something along the lines of bulk buying discount on fuel (all members count as one buying 'body' etc). The promise is between 5p and 10p discount per litre, but the haggling/negotiating is taking a while!
We definitely need something as petrol here is reaching 95p a litre (£4.31 a gallon, or $7.68 US)
Who knows, maybe they'll expand over the pond at some point.
From: peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of P Young
Sent: 26 April 2006 07:42
To: Peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Peugeot-L] heard this idea about gas fr this guy from california?
This seems like a good idea on the face of it but here's what Snopes
has to say about it:
On"....That isn't the case: gasoline is a fungible commodity, so if one
oil company's product isn't being bought up in one particular market or
outlet, it will simply sell its output to (or through) other
outlets....
.....A boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline won't result in lower
overall prices. Prices at all the non-boycotted outlets would rise due
to the temporarily limited supply and increased demand, making the
original prices look cheap by comparison. The shunned outlets could
then make a killing by offering gasoline at its "normal" (i.e.,
pre-boycott) price or by selling off their output to the non-boycotted
companies, who will need the extra supply to meet demand. The only
person who really gets hurt in this proposed scheme is the service
station operator, who has almost no control over the price of gasoline.
"
Here's the link to the web page:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp
This chain letter is based on the old notion of competition in a free
market and the consumer/citizen's ability to bend and shape it. I hate
to say it but this economy, at least as far as gasoline is concerned,
is more akin to the old company store in a one industry/one store town.
The country needs gas, they sell it, and we pay whatever they want. If
we don't want to pay, the multinational oil companies can and will find
willing customers in other parts of the world.
As far as supply and demand goes, Iraq and Iran are major suppliers,
the multinationals, through Cheney's gang of thieves, have neatly
capped Iraq's output and are now looking to get at Iran and do the
same. Squeeze the supply, increase the demand, voila!higher prices for
the remaining oil, which they'll meter out when the price is right.
I mean look at the golden parachute that guy from EXXon got.
$500,000,000.00. How long does he plan on living?
Sheesh!!!
Excerpt from a letter I received just tonight:
>GAS WAR - 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
>conside ration .
>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 wou! ldn't c ontinue to "hurt"
>ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us
>than it was a problem for them.
I found it quite humorous that in this one an engineer from Haliburton
came up with the "idea".
sorry for the rant
regards,
Peat
Seattle
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