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Old 05-04-2007, 04:17 PM
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I don't think the email worked. When I forwarded it to my friends, I got a Gap Gift Card and cash from Bill Gates.
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Old 05-04-2007, 04:39 PM
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I love how 3,000,000,000$$ is supposed to be some huge number in this case. Major Oil and Gas companies piss three billion dollars.
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Old 05-04-2007, 04:51 PM
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Don't do it then!

You are under no obligation what so ever!
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Old 05-04-2007, 05:36 PM
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Don't do it then!

You are under no obligation what so ever!
You don't get it, it won't lower prices and if you were going to have to fill up that day anyway, you'll just fill up the day before or after.

Don't drive for a day. A week. A month. That will save you money and if enough people did it, would actually make a dent in the demand, thus increasing the supply, thus making the price decrease.

It won't happen, but that's the only way it would work.
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Old 05-04-2007, 05:51 PM
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I think this is just silly. People have too much on their plate on a day to day basis already, so they don't need to sit and figure out how to not get gas on May 15. And it does not make any sense that this would hurt the gas companies....for example:

Let's just say that each day 3 million people get gas. If one day, 2 million people decided to get gas on different day than normal, so only 1 million people get gas that day...the gas company won't feel a pinch cause difference was made on another day...get it? There is no "loss".
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Old 05-04-2007, 07:46 PM
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False hope:

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Don't do it then!

You are under no obligation what so ever!
Tom;
As you pointed out in another posting, we all have gotten this message at least once.
The reason: it is spam mail.
Go to any of the Urban Legend webs sites and you will find out just how false this is.
www.snopes.com comes to mind-there are several others.
For all of the gas related information on snopes:
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q...&sp-m=1&sp-s=0

For this line of thought:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp

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Old 05-04-2007, 05:49 PM
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I don't think the email worked. When I forwarded it to my friends, I got a Gap Gift Card and cash from Bill Gates.
I got a Banana Republic Gift Card and Steve Jobs personally handed me an iPod with good battery life and no sad iPod icon.
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