Interesting EMail I got about a Gas Strike..... Hmmmmmm

[WCGreen]

IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA DID NOT PURCHASE A DROP OF GASOLINE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES.
AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET LOSS OF OVER 4.6 BILLION DOLLARS WHICH AFFECTS THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE OIL COMPANIES.

THEREFORE, SEPTEMBER 1st HAS BEEN FORMALLY DECLARED "STICK IT UP THEIR BEHIND " DAY AND THE PEOPLE OF THESE TWO NATIONS SHOULD NOT BUY A SINGLE DROP OF GASOLINE THAT DAY.

THE ONLY WAY THIS CAN BE DONE IS IF YOU FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN AND AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN TO GET THE WORD OUT.

WAITING ON THE GOVERNMENT TO STEP IN AND CONTROL THE PRICES IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REDUCTION AND CONTROL IN PRICES THAT THE ARAB NATIONS PROMISED TWO WEEKS AGO?

REMEMBER ONE THING, NOT ONLY IS THE PRICE OF GASOLINE GOING UP BUT AT THE SAME TIME AIRLINES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES, TRUCKING COMPANIES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES WHICH EFFECTS PRICES ON EVERYTHING THAT IS SHIPPED. THINGS LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING, BUILDING MATERIALS, MEDICAL SUPPLIES ETC. WHO PAYS IN THE END? WE DO!

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IF THEY DON'T GET THE MESSAGE AFTER ONE DAY, WE WILL DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.

SO DO YOUR PART AND SPREAD THE WORD. FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND MAKE SEPTEMBER 1ST A DAY THAT THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA SAY "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"

[salvorhardin]

1. Hint: You can almost be assured that anything in all caps is BS

Checking Snopes first helps too.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/nogas.asp

[havocmom]

2. SO everybody fills up on Aug 31 or Sept 2 and that does what?

Gives the oil company execs a good giggle. But they know you are gonna fill up sometime during the week.

Pointless.

Drive as little as you can possibly manage for the rest of your life. That sends a message. One day means squat.

[WCGreen]

3. Yea but I just thought I would pass it along...

Kind of a representation of all the frustration that is building up out there....

[salvorhardin]

4. No it's not

It's representative of a silly urban legend that's been floating around on the internet since at least 2000. I remember hearing forms of this in gossip and on radio stations going back well into the 1980s. Chances are there was a version of it floating around in the 1970s.

[havocmom]

8. BINGO!

And yes, around since the 70s. I recall many LTTE with basically the same silly perscription.

[KG]

5. pointless, stupid, and has made the internet rounds several times before.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. We'd do better to purchase gas from Hess

because they donate heavily blue. Unfortunately, their stations are fewer and farther between around here.

[WCGreen]

7. A well, at least it stirred up some passion.....

I don't usually get Emails like this since I only give my EMail out to family, freinds and business folks....

It sounded fun....

[In_The_Wind]

11. Aw gee ... I'm sorry WCGreen!

I didn't know ...

you may be getting more emails ...

[WoodrowFan]

9. SNOPES has a good take on it

Basically it has zero effect. But hey, never hurts to ask...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/nogas.asp

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Only long-term systemic reduction in usage will have any effect

A one-day boycott is assclownish.

A permanent personal boycott, or more likely reduction in usage, will have the effect looked for. Especially if a significant majority of America does it.

Ride that bike more, walk more, buy a scooter, or otherwise reduce your own gas usage.

And stop using straws and plastic bags and plastic silverware and plastic plates and other disposable earth-killing shit. All that fucking shit is either made from oil (plastics) or uses a shitload of oil to make it just so lazy fucking American fucks can use it once and throw it away.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. I'm so sorry, my dear WC...

But the other posters are correct about this one...It is an Urban Legend...

However, you are correct...It is a symptom of the frustration that we all feel over gas prices..


:loveya: :pals:

[Dukkha]

13. I've been getting this email every summer for years

The worst element of the Internet. Junk email chain letters forwarded by morans. especially all the pro-Christian anti-Muslim bullshit