今天收到一封转发的电子邮件，提出一个消费者联合起来迫使石油公司降低油价的策略，大意是大家坚持到年底不要从美国最大的两家石油公司Exxon和Mobil买汽油，只到其他较小的加油站。这两家的油卖不出去，就会降价，其他公司也不得不跟着降价。

觉得这是个不错的主意，但不知道效果如何，而且需要非常非常多的消费者参与并且坚持下去。还有一个重要的问题是：那些加油站可以作为平时加油的替代？比如Shell, BP, ARCO之类，实际上也是很大的公司。消费都转到那里去了，反倒造成他们的实力大增。

下面是原文：



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 $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is
currently $2.43 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil
companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the
cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50- $1.75, we need to take
aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the market
place....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 can't just stop buying gas. But we
CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a
price war.



Here's the idea:



For the rest of this year,
DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the TWO BIGGEST COMPANIES (which now
are one), EXXON and MOBIL. 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 Exxon and Mobil gas buyers.



It's 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 about 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.



How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail 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 $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN... THIS CAN REALLY WORK.