So I saw this spam, and since its devoid of any inkling of macroeconomics, I just had to suggest an alternative. Instead of expending futile effort to try to make gas get cheaper, how about we all try to make gas as expensive as possible so that alternative energy sources look all the more attractive. Come on! Let’s see if we can help get gasoline up to 6 or 7 dollars a gallon! Yeah!

Now all we need to do is figure out how to buy oil futures and start bidding them up. That’ll be sweet. Anyhoo:

     Here’s the idea:

For the rest of 2007, 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 wimp out
at this point…. keep reading and I’ll explain how simple it is to
reach millions of people.

I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at
least ten more (30 x 10 =3D 300) … and those 300 send it to at
least ten more (300 x 10 =3D 3,000)…and so on, by the time the
message reaches the sixth group 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!!!