Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:03:08 -0700
Reply-To: "frank n. furter" <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: "frank n. furter" <wasserbox@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: (Fwd: gas out )NO VANAGON CONT.
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it's someone's (suv owner - I am convinced) hokey-ass
idea that if they somehow convince everyone in the US
to not buy gas on Apr. 30th, they will overthrow the
oil-moguls & force them to drop their prices to
"normal" (read-below average) prices.
I got the chain letter last night & proceeded to rail
the sender...
It won't work for many reasons - oil sales are based
on an average, not daily consumption. Oil prices are
fixed on a monthly basis. If you buy gas the day
before or the day after you have essentially no effect
on the market. Even though a supply related event can
drastically raise prices instantly, such a demand
related event will not lower prices instantly. When
prices dropped last year it was not instantly 1.25 to
.78$. It was a gradual price drop over 6-7 months,
caused by CONSTANT overproducing of non-compliant OPEC
member-nations. We aren't talking a few extra barrels
a week, we are talking MILLIONS a DAY.
Let's say for a second that every American doesn't
fill up their 35gal SUV tank that Friday - you have
only cut a small percentage of the market out for an
instant (in economic time). What about the millions
of barrels consumed in manufacturing, consumed by
air-lines (you think they won't fill up?) consumed by
the military, consumed in production of electricity,
etc. Consumer gasoline sales are only a small
percentage of total oil consumption in the US.
This doesn't even take into consideration the
percentage of Americans that will not be reached by
this pitiful e-mail. Hundreds of Millions aren' even
online TO get it, and millions more instantly delete
the crap, and millions more will fill up if they need
gas and the note be damned...
Quit kidding yourselves people
In the words of the Borg,
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
You wanna support something worthwhile, take a second
& write a letter to your senator encouraging support
of a flat tax.
--- Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM> wrote:
> By eating a high-fiber, low-fat diet, and getting
> plenty of exercise I participate daily...
> What is a "gas out"?
>
> G. Matthew Bulley
> Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
> Cary, North Carolina, USA
> www.bulley-hewlett.com
> phone: 888.468.4880 (tollfree)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Granito [SMTP:VANAGONE@AOL.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 9:36 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Was:(Fwd: gas out )NO VANAGON CONT.
>
> Is anyone actually going to participate in the "gas
> out" on April 30?
>
===
Mark
87 Westfalia Gl
84 Scirocco 8v
http://members.tripod.com/~jehanno
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