Note to media/Bush
Saudis/OPEC don’t control the price of oil any more 5
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Posted 12:21 PM on 17 May 2008
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sunflower Posted 6:03 am
17 May 2008
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Delay And Deny Posted 8:59 am
17 May 2008
Brazil Oil Finds May End Reliance on Middle East, Zeihan Says
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?sid=aBUoYKhu7PWk&p ...
April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil's discoveries of what may be two of the world's three biggest oil finds in the past 30 years could help end the Western Hemisphere's reliance on Middle East crude, Strategic Forecasting Inc. said.
Saudi Arabia's influence as the biggest oil exporter would wane if the fields are as big as advertised, and China and India would become dominant buyers of Persian Gulf oil, said Peter Zeihan, vice president of analysis at Strategic Forecasting in Austin, Texas. Zeihan's firm, which consults for companies and governments around the world, was described in a 2001 Barron's article as ``the shadow CIA.''
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amazingdrx Posted 3:17 pm
17 May 2008
We stop buying oil, the price will drop. It's just that simple. Plugin, turn on, drop out. The medium is the message.
A plugin bike, zero oil. A plugin hybrid car. 10% of normal oil consumption. Electric mass transit zero oil. Even oil powered mass transit is a fraction of oil used in cars.
Put the fear back in the faces of the oil analysts and their hedge fund cronies. Stop buying oil. Boycott oil. Reduce total consumption to 10% of present levels.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog
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amazingdrx Posted 3:19 pm
17 May 2008
Suck on that tailpipe oh mighty OPECers.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog
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Anvil Posted 9:05 pm
22 May 2008
We are responsible for the high prices because we are willing to pay them without acting on instinct and refusing to play the game!
Face it in a perfect world we would all be off the grid with the smallest carbon footprint we could muster. Unfortunately we cant all afford to buy a new PRIUS and PV panes for our homes yet.
IF YOU ARE TIRED OF PAYING A RIDICULOUS PRICE PER GALLON AT THE GAS PUMP AND YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT THE EMISSIONS OF YOUR CURRENT AUTOMOBILE PLEASE PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS MESSAGE.
I am starting this e-protest as a reasonable means of reaching 300,000,000 americans and at least as many of our global cousins.
It is very simple......
We as a global culture MUST WORK TOGETHER......
This means that we must all AGREE to do one thing as a group.....
Right now you are asking yourself HOW CAN I CHANGE THE PRICE OF GAS? HOW CAN I PERSONALLY LOWER THE IMPACT OF MY CAR ON THE PLANET?
Simple.... Join together and collectively act.....
DO NOT BUY GAS FOR ONE WEEK EACH MONTH!!!
I am calling upon all individuals who purchase gas to not buy gas for one whole week.
Fill up on the last week of the month and COMMIT to not buy gas or any products from a gas station from the 1st of each month to the 7th of each month.
I know that I am asking for a huge change in your weekly lifestyle. It will mean carefully considering the number of miles that are absolutely necessary to drive in that week
and not driving unless it is an absolute necessity.
One more thing and this is THE big one. This will only work if every person who receives this message passes it along to every person on their email list.
This is the most critical part. The average person has around 70 email addresses in their contact list, If every person I sent this to forwards it to their whole contact
list that will be over 5000 people.....if these all forward it to about 70 people thats over 340,000 people, if these all participate it will be over 24,000,000 people.
That is only after the third generation of emails if each of these 24,000,000 participate, that is almost 1.5 billion people.
PLEASE DON'T DISCARD THIS EMAIL, SEND IT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, AND FOLLOW UP WITH THEM TO SEND IT TO EVERYONE THEY KNOW!
I AM NOT ASKING FOR MORE THAN A COUPLE OF HOURS OF YOUR TIME. THIS IS A SMALL PRICE TO PAY TO PREVENT THE OIL COMPANIES FROM
RAISING THE PRICE OF GAS TO MORE THAN THE HOURLY MINIMUM WAGE!!!!! NOT TO MENTION THE IMPROVED AIR QUALITY AND REDUCED GREENHOUSE GASES!!!!!
If you are not sure just how this could work think about how much impact
BIG OIL will feel if over 1,000,000 people stop buying their weekly gas just one week a month.
If you are like the average consumer and you fill up just once a week at around $50.00 and you multiply this figure by 1 million,
That's 50 million dollars a month that hits hard immediately. Now suppose this happens over the course of three to four months,
and the participation continued to escalate as I have outlined. The results would have to be in our favor. The number of gallons of fuel processed and delivered are carefully
calculated by the oil companies based on the number of gallons sold in the previous months and years...
If the fuel consumption goes down the ammount produced and on standby becomes a backlog situation...
If there is a glut of fuel left over at the end of each month for a few months the Oil Companies have no choice but to lower the price to get the fuel moved!
The result LOWER PRICES AT THE PUMP!!!!! IT"S HIGH TIME WE AS CITIZENS OF AN EMERGING GLOBAL SOCIETY
STARTED TO PUT THESE COMPANIES ON NOTICE. WE ARE THE ONES WHO ULTIMATELY CONTROL THE MARKET BECAUSE WE ARE THE MARKET!!!!!!
Please take this seriously We are only going to change the status quo if we refuse to let the suppliers dictate the rules.
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