WARNING TO Lurkers without a DU account who work for Exxon/Mobil or own an Exxon/Mobil gas station.

[liberaldemocrat7]

Many people see that you give a lot of money to the Republican party. A lot of people have now had to suffer for over a year paying prices per gallon from $2.50 to $3.25.


If you lurk here and do not have a DU account, tell your gas station owner, tell your upper management that a purchasing strike exists conducted by those who agree with me that unless Exxon/Mobil gas stations prices their gasoline down to $1.75 a gallon we will not go to your gas station for anything. We will not buy Exxon/Mobil gasoline but more importantly we will not get our cars repaired at your Exxon/Mobil station and we will not buy any food or other items at your convenience stores.

We can easily go to another gas station. When the economic pressure mounts on the station owners, then perhaps the parent company will get pressure from their gas station owners to do as we ask.


OK Lurkers who don't have DU accounts, go tell your fellow Exxon/Mobil management and gas station owners we mean business for someone else until you lower your prices to $1.75 a gallon. No more gas gouging.





Note to critics: You have the right to say as you wish, but I really do not care. We're using the market place and our purchasing power to bring about change.

[VLC]

1. Why would anyone go to Exxon anyway?

It's known they fund anti-global warming propaganda, plus they make record profits all the time. Why would anyone buy gas from them unless they lived in a town with only one gas station, and it was Exxon?

[EFerrari]

2. Welcome to DU, VLC.

That's a good question!

:)

[VLC]

3. Thanks for the welcome!

[Make7]

4. They still haven't paid the punitive damages for the Valdez spill.

The Exxon Valdez ran aground on March 24, 1989.

So I agree - "Why would anyone go to Exxon anyway?"

- Make7

[liberaldemocrat7]

5. Well, they have made billions since the oil spill.

I want the people who run companies to act honest, fair and compassionate and concerned about people's safety and incomes.

[Jack Rabbit]

7. In 18 yrs since Prince William Sound, I've spent exactly 25¢ at Exxon

I needed air in my tires early one morning and didn't have a lot of time before catching a commuter bus. The pump at the no-name station I usually patronized was broken, and the Exxon station at the other end of the block was the only other one nearby.

It was before sun up, the station was actually closed and no one was there. I felt guilty about giving Exxon 25¢ for enough air to fill my tires.

[MiniMe]

8. I'm with you. Thats when I started boycotting Exxon too.

The only exceptions that I have made was when I was traveling and Exxon was the only station around.

[tyedyeto]

6. Question?

How does one know which gasoline company is supplying gas to the Circle K's and other non-brand name stations?

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Ask them

They should tell you. I got the runaround at one place so I just called their corporate offices.

[RoyGBiv]

11. Or more to the point ...

Which oil companies are supplying the oil to the refineries that a particular gas station uses.

And the answer is, you don't. Often the station owner doesn't even know.

You can get them to tell you which rack was used to fill the last tanker that dropped a load in their tanks. They have some degree of control over this. They have no control over how the company from which they purchase gasoline to sell to you does its business.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. I haven't bought Exxon Mobil in 20 years

since they refused to clean up the Valdez spill or pay the fine.

[fishnfla]

12. What, exactly is the "warning" part?

and who exactly are you "warning"?

I'm not being intentionally obtuse. I dont understand the gist of your "warning" posts. They sound like threats to me.

[liberaldemocrat7]

13. economic boycott threats.

We have the right to boycott companies in America. We call that a purchasing strike.

We can boycott because we want a company to lower prices.

We can boycott because a company mistreats their working people.

We can boycott because a company gets too friendly with the REPUBLIKLAN party and then we hold them accountable by getting as many people to call the company and the Republiklan party and say: Get this legislation done and until you do we don't buy your products.



In this case we boycott because we demand lower gasoline prices. I'm warning people who work for Exxon/Mobil that such a boycott exists.
I'm mainly addressing the lurkers who do not have a DU account, ie the larger public who definitely reads this forum. I imagine thousands of such people read this forum.

[viat0r]

14. they really are cretins

Its up to you to tell friends family even opponents to not spend a dime at their establishments no food gas or service..
You can use the truth ie. exxon valdez,price gouging,silencing/revoking free speech rights of others see here http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/25/exxon-shuts-down-yes-men-site/ paying anti global warming hit-men/front-men and many many other vile things they've done. http://www.exxposeexxon.org/

Or you can say things like their gas is watered down (spread this rumor) or say the food their was tainted (spread this rumor)
or the service they provided on someones car caused them to die in a horrible car accident (spread this rumor)

I use the watered down gas "rumor" because its TRUE maybe not for all of them but one here where i live our company was using them for our fleet and we started having problems and it turned out to be the gas it was literally watered down ...go figure we were spending over 30K a month or more we don't do business with them any more obviously.

[quiet_please]

15. I'm like some...

Not to be obtuse, but why just Exxon? Citgo? BP? Shouldn't this be a whole hearted campaign instead of targeting just one company? Or am I missing something?

[RB TexLa]

16. There isn't any way for XOM to unilaterally lower gas prices

[ellacott]

17. I'm missing something too

Why is this just for lurkers that don't have a DU account?

[liberaldemocrat7]

19. Because I want to address a wider viewership.

I want lurkers to see that I'm addressing this to them.

[seriousstan]

18. Is Costco gas $1.75 or are they gouging also?

Since all gas is priced closely to all other gas in any given region, aren't they all guilty of gouging by your standards? Shouldn't we boycott them all?