Don’t buy Exxon Mobil Products

Join the resistance!!!! I was passed this and want you all to read. I think most people see as much value in doing this as they do voting, however, if truely everyone can get behind the idea there can be some impact.

We are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer and it might go higher!! 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 $2.09 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 (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. (If you don’t understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people…. Well, let’s face it, you just aren’t a mathematician. But I am . so trust me on this one.)

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!!!

Exxon Mobil Brands

How much would you pay for a virgin?

How about this virgin? Advertising in newspapers, on television and the internet, Graciela Yataco from Lima whom has been looking for a financial way out of poverty and help her mother by looking for creative ways to pay for thier medical expenses. She, being an attractive Peruvian model felt that her virginity is the most valuable offering they have.

Unfortunately amongst religious and local pressure she retracted her offering dispite having a top request to provide 1.5 million by a Canadian man. Wow, that must be quite a contract, eh?!

Peruvian virgin turns down $1.5m [BBC America]

Roma Tomatos will give you the shits!

By Paul Simao in Reuters (Health)

ATLANTA (Reuters) – Contaminated Roma tomatoes were the likely cause of a string of salmonella outbreaks that made 561 people sick in the United States and Canada last summer, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.

Salmonella is a common bacteria sometimes found in eggs, raw milk and raw meat. It typically causes diarrhea and other flu-like symptoms, and is rarely fatal.

Tomatoes have been linked to the bacteria in the United States since 1990 and are believed to have played a key role in three outbreaks that surfaced in North America last summer, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a report.

More than 150 people in 18 states, stretching from Kansas to New Hampshire, as well as the Canadian province of Ontario were hospitalized to be treated for salmonella infection, the Atlanta-based federal agency said.

Most had eaten at a U.S. delicatessen chain, according to the CDC, which did not identify the chain. Pre-sliced Roma tomatoes with the bacteria were found at one of the chain’s locations.

U.S. and Canadian health officials have been unable to determine the exact source of the suspect Roma tomatoes, which are smaller than the regular variety and oval in shape.

“Although a single tomato-packing house in Florida was common to all three outbreaks, other growers or packers also might have supplied contaminated Roma tomatoes that resulted in some of the illnesses,” the CDC said.

The outbreaks are a concern on both sides of the border because of the popularity of tomatoes in the food chain and a noticeable rise in the number of salmonella outbreaks linked to tomatoes in recent years.

A total of 1,616 such cases were reported to the CDC between 1990 and 2004, but officials say that the vast majority are not reported. When identified, salmonella infection is treated with antibiotics.

Tomatoes are usually grown in areas that are natural habitats for birds, reptiles and other species that carry salmonella. The bacteria is believed to enter tomato plants through roots or flowers and the fruit itself through small cracks in the skin, stem scar or plant.

Eradicating salmonella once it gets inside a tomato is almost impossible without cooking.