Re: High Oil Prices

I received this, too.  I think that if it mobilizes people and gets them to
learn a little more about how the economy works, how "our" oil companies,
and I think also our Govt, collaborated with the OPEC countries to raise
prices, such a "gas out" is a good idea and we should support it.
Roz

At 09:48 AM 3/6/00 -0500, you wrote:
>WSNers,
>
>I forward this, stipped of all the past forwardings, frow two reasons:
>1) it's intrinsic interest to all of us who are compelled to use fossil
>fuels in order to survive.
>2) it seems to me it _could be_ yet another example of anti
>global-corporate movement with _some_ similarities to the WTO
>demonstrations, and the demonstartions being organized for April 16 in
>Washington, D.C.
>
>I do not know anything about the supposed gasout of 1999.
>
>whadya think?
>tom
>
>> > Last year on April 30,1999, a gas out was staged across Canada  and the
>> > U.S. to bring the price of gas down, and it worked.  It's time to  do
>> > something about it  again.
>> > Only this time lets make it for three days instead of just  one.  The
>> > so-called oil cartel decided to slow production to drive up  gasoline
>> > prices.  Lets see how many Canadian\American people we can get to  ban
>> > together for a three day period in April, NOT TO BUY ANY GASOLINE,
>> > during those three days.
>> > LETS HAVE A GAS OUT.  Do not buy any gasoline from APRIL  7, 2000,
>> > THROUGH APRIL 9, 2000. Buy what you need before the dates listed
>> > above,  or after, but try not to buy any during the GAS OUT.  If you
>> > want to
>> > help, just send this to everyone you know and ask them to do the same
>> > We brought the prices down once before, and we can do it again.
>> >   Come on North America lets stand together.  WE  CAN MAKE A
>> > DIFFERENCE!!!.
>> > Even if you receive  this 100 times keep passing it around,
>> > this way you know
>> > everyone is being informed and no one will  forget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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