HOW DO YOU SAY KISS MY GASS!?

Create a two-minute (or less) video telling Congress and Big Oil to KISS YOUR GASS!

Using song, rap, poetry, dance, comedy, parody, etc., we want to know how you say KISS MY GASS!

Videos will be reviewed by KISS MY GASS! for content and then placed on the kissmygasprotest.com website for voting. The deadline to submit videos is July 15^th. Videos will be voted on by the public between July 16^th through July 31^st. The videos with the three highest votes will win the 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd place prizes.

The first place winning video will receive a $100 gas card. The 2^nd place winner will receive a gas card for $50, and the 3^rd place winner will receive a gas card for $25.

Criteria

• Videos must make mention of the phrase "KISS MY GASS!"
• No cursing.
• Contest is open to drivers of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia
• All videos must be exactly 2 minutes long
• Submissions can be either by an individual or a group, and can be sponsored by an organization or corporation.
• Each individual or group is limited to one submission.
• All videos should be free of copyright materials.
• In order to submit, individual or group must have signed the KISS MY GASS! Petition and signed up for the newsletter with the email address used to submit YouTube.com link. No exceptions.

How to submit your video

• Upload your video to YouTube.com. Video must be labeled KISS MY GASS! Video Contest.
• Each email with YouTube.com video link should be submitted with: your name(s), an email address, and title of the video.
• Videos must be submitted via email as YouTube.com links to: contest@kissmygasprotest.com. No exceptions.

How to submit your video

The Contest begins at 12:00:01 A.M. Pacific Time ("PT") on June 19, 2008 and ends at 11:59:59 P.M. PT on July 15, 2008 ("Entry Period"). For the purposes of this Contest, a day begins at 12:00:01 A.M. PT and ends at 11:59:59 P.M. PT. All entries must be received by the specified deadline for the applicable Entry Period to be eligible; any entries received after the applicable deadline, or doesn't meet the criteria and submission guidelines will be void and will not be considered for judging for that Entry Period.

Additional Information

We like to laugh.

Congratulations everyone! The KISS MY GASS! Protest is officially underway. For the next month we will refrain from buying gas at Exxon, Esso, or Mobil. If we're not mobil, we won't buy Mobil.

In addition to our refusal to buy gas from Exxon Mobil, it's important that we tell everyone we can about the KISS MY GASS! campaign to help spread the word.

So this week, we're asking all KISS MY GASS! participants to tell ten people each day about the campaign.

Using email, the telephone, text messages, flyers, and the Internet (blogs, Myspace, etc.), help us spread the word to your co-workers, family members, and friends about the campaign.

Encourage them to sign the petition in support of challenging Big Oil and Congress on the price of gasoline.

At the end of the week, you should have reached at least 70 people with the message of KISS MY GASS!

Because we know that you're busy, we've made it easy for you to help spread the word in our self-service Took Kit. Please feel free to download pre-made bumper stickers, flyers, and web banners.

Additionally, we're calling for all those who are mad about the price of gasoline to take to the streets on Saturday, June 21, 2008 for at least one hour to protest the cost of gas. Make it a family affair, include your neighbors and friends, or go solo, we just ask that you do it. You can stand on the corner at a major intersection in your city, or in front of a gas station. If you know where your U.S. Senator or Representative is going to be, meet them there with picket signs.

If you want to plan something in your city for Saturday and would like us to post the info on our events calendar, just drop us an email with all of the information and we'll gladly get the information up on the site.

Oh and don't forget to send us your photos and videos of your KISS MY GASS! activism.

The time for silence is over. Our silence hasn't gotten us anything. Now is the time to make our voices heard.

Please do your part.

Thank you.

If you're interested in serving as a contact person and team captain for your city/state, please email us at campaign@kissmygasprotest.com.

As a team captain for your city/state you would serve as a local media contact and an organizer to help spread the word. We need people who are willing to stage demonstrations and protests in their various cities as well as hand out flyers to spread the word. We're taking it back to grassroots.

In addition, anyone logging onto kissmyprotest.com from your city/state would be able to email you to get the latest information on any planned protests or demonstrations so that they could get involved.

Plus you'll get to make new friends in your area that feel like you do about the price of gas, Big Oil, and our government. Cool!

We're looking for a therapist or psychologist that wouldn't mind blogging some helpful tips on how to deal with road rage before and after and on how to cope at home and at work with the stress of rising gas prices.  We're all under a lot of stress and need to be on our best behavior.  We can't let them rip us off and send us to the slammer or divorce court.  Uh uh no way no how!  Please email us at info@kissmygasprotest.com with the subject line Therapist.

KISS MY GASS! is looking for bloggers interested in joining the team to blog about the various gas price related issues from their point of view. The goal is to encourage and invite a healthy discourse on ideas and suggestions as well as the issues. If you're interested…drop an email to info@kissmygasprotest.com.

Phase One Complete…But I Don't Think They Think That We Mean Business

Okay, so we're exhausted but happy. Happy because of the support and the willingness of people to attempt at trying to do something about this gas crisis. We're also happy about the hundreds of horns that honked, thumbs up, smiles, and "rights ons" we got while launching the campaign today in Hollywood.

We read an Associated Press report later this afternoon, that in our opinion tried to minimize our efforts. The story said that there were five people there and there were more media than protesters.

We had 9 people all together come out and yes, there was more media than protestors, but that was sort of the point in having the launch at 11 a.m. on a Friday in the heart of Los Angeles' media district.

Today was Phase One, launch the campaign nationally, via the media. In order to make sure that we made the east coast as well as the west coast news cycle we had to do it early enough in the day to ensure time for post editing and so on.

Mission accomplished.

Now it's time for Phase Two: Strength in Numbers.

We need to plan demonstrations around the country in front of our local Mobil stations and spread the word. Get your friends, co-workers, and family together for a couple of hours and get out there.

It felt so good to be out there on the street with our signs and getting the support of every driver that passed by. We highly suggest doing it if purely for the therapeutic benefits, lol.

You can print flyers and put them on cars, you can send emails, you can blog, but please use your voice to spread the Movement so that there's no confusion as to how many people are supporting KISS MY GASS! The Protest.

We can do this.

For our drivers in Los Angeles, if you plan something let us know via email so that we can come and support you. It's going to be a sunny weekend and we love to protest the high price of gas anytime.

Also, if anyone is interested in meeting up at the Staples Center with signs and flyers to spread the word on Sunday during the Lakers game, let us know. Seems like a great opportunity to spread the word…and support our Lakers!

Please make sure to send events that you are planning so that we can post it on the calendar so others in your area can join you, in addition, if you have photos or video from your event, let us know.

Let's get out there and hit the street in numbers in the coming days and weeks and show the world we mean business!

We have to collectively spread the word. We're dedicating two hours a week to standing in front of a Mobil and protesting, but we're willing to add more time if need be.

For Los Angeles, we need to do a few big rallies/demonstrations in Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, South Bay, and the Inland Empire at least. Perhaps the four Saturdays during June 15^th – July 14^th from noon to 2 p.m.

If there's someone who lives in either of these areas or a different area and wants to work together to rally the troops to come out for two hours on a Saturday, let's do it!  Have protest sign, will travel, lol!

Here are the dates up for grabs:

• Saturday, June 21
• Saturday, June 28
• Saturday, July 5
• Saturday, July 12

Email us the date and the location of the Mobil in your neighborhood and we'll post the info so that others can join us.

Everyone, send in your event info to info@kissmygasprotest.com and we'll post it under your city and state on the Events Page.

Thanks!

P.S. We'll post the video from today shortly.