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Article #5152Re: Don't pump gas on May 15th
From: Mr Frederick
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 07:58
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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