How about this idea for a gas war?

[Radio_Guy]

This was an e-mail forwarded to me, and I think this can work. I've edited it for brevity:

Gas prices could hit close to $4.00 a gallon by the end of summer and maybe higher. Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last year. 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. By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 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 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 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, 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. Just Don't buy gas from Mobil/Exxon. BP is fine, Sunoco is fine, just STOP buying from Mobil/Exxon. To entice you to purchase their product, they will start to reduce the prices.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK.