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Re: Don't pump gas on May 15th

#5164
From: Trophy
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 00:47
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I would be more in favor of not paying income taxes for a year - as a 
protest of the government wasting our tax dollars and mis-spending in 
general. - Than and the fact that Income tax was supposed to have been a 
temporary war measure.



<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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