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Re: Don't pump gas on May 15th

#5152
From: Mr Frederick
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 07:58
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"Peter D" <please@.sk> wrote in message 
news:133nrj7o37j6o4e@corp.supernews.com...
> 30c a gallon drop in April 1997? Yeah, right. Statistics without support.

Not to mention their was no gas-out campaign in 1997 anyway!  There was one 
in 1999.  Obviously it worked well.  We have such cheap gas now!

> Anyway, among the dumbest ideas known to man this has to be right up 
> there! Credit where credit is due though. It's not your idea. You just 
> snatched it from someplace else and cut/pasted it here without attribution 
> and took the credit. So, I guess that means your only a plagiariser and a 
> fool, not the maker of foolish notions.
>
> <email_me@mts.net> wrote in message 
> news:2gdn339rthpnreab52vhkvarh5bj0rcnjq@4ax.com...
>> NO GAS...On May 15th, 2007
>>
>>
>> ...in April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in
>> protest of gas prices.  Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon
>> overnight.
>>
>> On May 15th 2007, all internet users are asked not to go to a gas
>> station in protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $4.00 a gallon
>> in most places.
>>
>>   There are 73,000,000 persons  currently on the internet, and the
>> average car takes about 30 to 50 dollars to fill up.
>>
>> If all users did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take
>> $2,292,000,000.00 (that's almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companys
>> pockets for just one day, so please do not go to the gas station on
>> May 15th and lets try to put a dent in the Middle Eastern oil industry
>> for at least one day.
>>
>>
>
> 
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