Off Subject but WAY important!!!!!

This is a bit off subject, but does include our doggie friends. If you have to pay that much for gas, then you are spending less on your dogs!!!



IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES DID NOT
PURCHASE A DROP OF GASOLINE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE
OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES.

AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET LOSS OF
OVER 4.6 BILLION DOLLARS WHICH AFFECTS THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE OIL
COMPANIES.

THEREFORE MAY 19TH HAS BEEN FORMALLY DECLARED "STICK IT TO THEM" DAY
AND THE PEOPLE OF THIS NATION SHOULD NOT BUY A SINGLE DROP OF GASOLINE
THAT DAY.

THE ONLY WAY THIS CAN BE DONE IS IF YOU FORWARD THIS E-MAIL TO AS MANY
PEOPLE AS YOU CAN AND AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN TO GET THE WORD OUT.

WAITING ON THIS ADMINISTRATION TO STEP IN AND CONTROL THE PRICES IS
NOT
GOING TO HAPPEN. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REDUCTION AND CONTROL IN PRICES
THAT THE ARAB NATIONS PROMISED TWO WEEKS AGO?

REMEMBER ONE THING, NOT ONLY IS THE PRICE OF GASOLINE GOING UP BUT AT
THE SAME TIME AIRLINES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES, TRUCKING
COMPANIES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES WHICH EFFECTS PRICES ON
EVERYTHING THAT IS SHIPPED. THINGS LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING, BUILDING
MATERIALS, MEDICAL SUPPLIES ETC. WHO PAYS IN THE END? WE DO!

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IF THEY DON'T GET THE MESSAGE AFTER ONE DAY,
WE WILL DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.

SO DO YOUR PART AND SPREAD THE WORD. FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO EVERYONE
YOU
KNOW. MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND MAKE MAY 19TH A DAY THAT THE CITIZENS OF
THE UNITED STATES SAY "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"

 

That was a great post Sam i'm going to copy and paste to a email to everyone i know and i better make sure i get gas on the 18th would hate to run out lol

 

Same here. Rosenberg's gas went up 9 cents since yesterday!!!

Schulenbergs gas for regular unleaded is $2.07 a gallon!!!!

I'm sorry, but I can't afford $60 ever third day to fill my truck up! I have enough to worry about than having to worry about if I'm going to make it to work or not!!!

What hurts is my pocket book. I'm suffering, of course my dogs and pets don't know the diffrence. Except for the horses who seem to think they are on vacation. WE don't travel around to rodeo's or comps, or shows, frankly ICANT AFFORD THE GAS!!!

 

I know where i live i have paid as much as 2.27 per gallon and its 30 miles one way to work i really cant afford that either it is so stupid that we have to pay that much it really hurts my pocket book also i'm a single mom and i have to run my kids everywhere, soccer, baseball, school concerts (my son is in band also) and 10 bucks doesnt even get me anywhere it stinks

It cost me 5 bucks to fill up a gas can for the lawn mower it used to be 2.00 it is stupid

 

Oh I am game, I filled up my car the other day and its $6 more than last week, not to mention about $8 more than a few months ago. Thats $32 a month just for my car, not to mention my husbands SUV, Ouch. we are 2.25 for reg unleaded

You go that right Sam, it affects all of us one way or another like not being able to take your pet to the vet or feed your family.

honeybear

 

Hi, you're right, it's rediculous!
It's going up to around £4.50 a gallon here tomorrow, I think that's about $7

I was over there last year and drove from New York to Warren, Ohio, around for 3 days whilst I was there and then back to New York for £40, it was heaven!

I didn't want to come home

 

OH my NIK!!! Here I feel stupid for complaining about oru $2 crisis!!!! OUCH!

I just think that if we all make a stand, especially when the supply is not in jepardy. Did you know that Texas has enough oil and gas to fuel the world for up to 123 years!!!!!! And thats just on what we've already drilled.
I know, Granvel is in the oilfield business.

IT just pisses me off that they are raising the gas prices, because they know we'll pay it. We don't have a choice. Their being greedy and want others oil, when we're exporting just as much as their importing. HOW STUPID!!

 

I am in! I just bought a new truck in January. I am going broke trying to keep gas in it. I live in the sticks and everything is at least 30 miles away. Plus my mom has been sick and she lives in another town so I have been driving her everywhere! Almost daily! That adds up to for me about a tank every other day! GRRRR!!!! I am forwarding that message to everyone I know!

 

The gas prices are Crazy! My husband just bought a little festiva to drive to work because he drives 60miles to work one way and the festiva gets excellent gas mileage cause it's so small. The funny thing about it is my husband is 6ft 270lbs so when he gets in that car it is sooooooo funny!
He looks like he's driving a pregnant roller skate :mrgreen:

 

oh lordy! Kinda like the clowns in the tiny cars!!!! :-k

 

Best u all move to Australia just before this last petrol hike, we were getting it for AU$0.76 per litre - it's now about AU$0.86 lowest. Mind you we are all madly complaining about it over here

 

gailau there are 3.5 litres to a gallon. so that means if they had our prices they would be paying 3 dollars a gallon for fuel, and if they had western australias prices theyd be paying 3.50 a gallon lol. costs me 25AUD to fill up my car every week. thats 17 USD a week. id be on cloud nine if i could fill up my car for 32USD a month lol. sooo, stay well cleap of australia!!

 

Me too! In re-reading the post that came from, I think honeybears was stating the INCREASE each month she pays, due to higher gas prices. I could be wrong.

At about one tank of gas a week per car, we are paying about $100/month x 2 cars (= $200/month) for gas. Sheesh.


Jamiya

 

Thankfully I live 2 miles from work! I do miss my honda civic very much right now! <3 30 mpg.

 

where I live it takes my paycheck to fill up the car to go buy a gallon of milk - between the gas and the milk I'm broke :x heaven forbid I'd want an ice cream for the trip then I'd have to refinance my house to pay for it

 

We're in the ornamental iron business and so far our steel has tripled in price because it's all going to China. Gas is 2.30 a gal. I'm freaking out that this could put us out of business. So, when I freak out, I like to eat. I go to the store, 3.30 for a gal. of milk, 5.50 for a lb. of hamburger, 4.80 for a lb. of butter. WHAT THE HECK?!?!

Good thing wine is still affordable!

 

OK! This was just emailed to me.

Think THIS would work guys??!

MAYBE THIS GIRL'S GOT SOMETHING.
>
> Dear friends & family,
> I hear we are going to hit close to a $1.42 a Litre by the summer.
>Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent,
united
>action. Phillip Hollsworth, offered this good idea: This makes MUCH
MORE
>SENSE than the don't buy gas on a certain day campaign that was going
>around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that
because
>they knew we wouldn't continue to hurt ourselves by refusing to buy
gas. It
>was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT,

>whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really
work.
>Please read it and join with us!
>
> By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $.80 a
>litre
>is super cheap. Me too! It is currently .78 to .89 depending on what
day it
>is,for regular unleaded gas in Montreal, Qc. We all know that we're
being
>screwed by the oil companies. Does everyone remember how they drove up
the
>prices way past a dollar and got the gas prices to where they wanted
them,
>claiming there was a shortage of oil. Well, there isn't any shortage
now,
>and the oil is more abundant than it was 35 years ago when the price of
a
>litre of gas was 29 cents!!!
>
>
> Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned
>us to
>think that the cost of a litre of gas is CHEAP at $0.78-$0.85, we need
to
>take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the
>marketplace....not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more
each
>day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see
the
>price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not
>purchasing their gas! And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
How?
>Since we all rely on our cars, we cant just stop buying gas. But we CAN

>have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price
war.
>
>
> Heres the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY
>gasoline
>from the two biggest companies (which now are one), PETRO CANADA,
SHELL. If
>they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their
prices.
>If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow
suit.
>But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of PETRO
CANADA
>and SHELL buyers. Its really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp out on me
at
>this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach
>millions of people!!
>
>
> I am sending this note to at least thirty people. If each of you
>send
>it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to at

>least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message
>reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE

>MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and pass this on
to
>ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If
it
>goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION
PEOPLE!!!
>
>
> Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all
>(If
>you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to
do is
>send this to 10 people... Well, lets face it, you just aren't a
>Mathematician. But I am. So trust me on this one.)
>
> How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out
>to
>ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could

>conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! I'll bet you didn't
>think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we
can
>make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message
on.
>
>
> PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $0.64 OR LESS
>RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK!!!!!!!
>
>
> PLEASE take a few minutes and pass this on to everyone you know!!

>If
>you can't e-mail it to at least ten people, please print out a bunch of

>copies and hand it out to your family and friends!!
>

 

I payed, only on friday cause i live in NSW Australia (Yes i know my profile says brisbane, but im moving there soon, i promise), I payed $1.07 a litre. They reckon it will hit $1.10 a litre before end of June. It takes me $65.00 to fill my car up, thats two cartons of grog I can buy instead....lol....