Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Pay it Forward
The Forwarder.
There's at least one person like this in all of our email lives. My mother now has enough sense to at least run whatever it is by me before she forwards the warning, antidote, or petition to her whole address book. And thus the student becomes the teacher.
My personal address is free from this nuisance, for the most part. There is the odd one here and there from an old high school friend or so but really nothing more. My work address, however, is quite a different story. I get them all. The Cracker Barrel gift certificate, the eagle head on the dollar bill, all of them. What's so great is a lady in my department is dedicated to educating the masses, as it were, and responds to every one of these to everyone that was copied with the information and link debunking whatever the forward said. But, she does it so much nicer and tactfully than I ever could. I love it! No seriously, I really love it. Here, you'll see what I mean...
The email:
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 consideration.
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 wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.
BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us! By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..... not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war. Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out at this point....keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people.
I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =3D 300)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =3D 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it.....THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people....Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am, so trust me on this one.)
How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!
I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you? Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.
I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.
THIS CAN REALLY WORK!
[Don't you just LOVE the you're not a mathmetician but I am line?!]
And the response:
I've seen this e-mail circulating for several years and, unfortunately, it isn't really on the up-and-up.
But, here's a link to some history about the e-mail and other real options that might work to lower the cost:
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/exxon.html
Let's all conserve together!
See how positive she is? It's great, really great. And absolutely cracks me up...when I get a forward, I get excited waiting for her response! Ok, so I have a boring job, so what?
Currently listening to: The Body Accoustic - Cyndi Lauper
There's at least one person like this in all of our email lives. My mother now has enough sense to at least run whatever it is by me before she forwards the warning, antidote, or petition to her whole address book. And thus the student becomes the teacher.
My personal address is free from this nuisance, for the most part. There is the odd one here and there from an old high school friend or so but really nothing more. My work address, however, is quite a different story. I get them all. The Cracker Barrel gift certificate, the eagle head on the dollar bill, all of them. What's so great is a lady in my department is dedicated to educating the masses, as it were, and responds to every one of these to everyone that was copied with the information and link debunking whatever the forward said. But, she does it so much nicer and tactfully than I ever could. I love it! No seriously, I really love it. Here, you'll see what I mean...
The email:
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 consideration.
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 wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.
BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us! By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..... not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war. Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out at this point....keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people.
I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =3D 300)...and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =3D 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it.....THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people....Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am, so trust me on this one.)
How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!
I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you? Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.
I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.
THIS CAN REALLY WORK!
[Don't you just LOVE the you're not a mathmetician but I am line?!]
And the response:
I've seen this e-mail circulating for several years and, unfortunately, it isn't really on the up-and-up.
But, here's a link to some history about the e-mail and other real options that might work to lower the cost:
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/exxon.html
Let's all conserve together!
See how positive she is? It's great, really great. And absolutely cracks me up...when I get a forward, I get excited waiting for her response! Ok, so I have a boring job, so what?
Currently listening to: The Body Accoustic - Cyndi Lauper
// posted by The Emergent Teacher @ 1:05 PM 
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much nicer than i am, that's for sure.
i reply to all, include the snopes.com link that proves it is a hoax, state that it is, indeed a hoax and then go on to say how forwarding email like that without verifying it first is the equivalent of an internet 'kick-me' sign.
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i reply to all, include the snopes.com link that proves it is a hoax, state that it is, indeed a hoax and then go on to say how forwarding email like that without verifying it first is the equivalent of an internet 'kick-me' sign.
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