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Article #5155Re: Don't pump gas on May 15th
From: 4newsgroups
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 15:34
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 15:34
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Hey why don't we have a Frosty Friday protest on Feb 29th 2008. All the people in Winnipeg shut off the heat in their houses to protest the high price of natural gas and electricity. That would fix all those "fat cats" down at Manitoba Hydro wouldn't it! Broken pipes, hypothermia and frost bite be dammed. "Peter D" <please@.sk> wrote in message news:133nrj7o37j6o4e@corp.supernews.com... > 30c a gallon drop in April 1997? Yeah, right. Statistics without support. > 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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