You know I gotta be honest, I am not sure how effective this will be, but I do like the spirit of the idea. BTW, I haven't been able to confirm that this is actually being planned, but like I said, I like the idea.
May 15th is the designated day to boycott. Sure I will do it. Just have to remember to top off on May 14th
Such idiocy. It's times like this I actually wish I owned a car. Last time I checked, the government doesn't own and operate gas stations.
I'd be willing to go along with not USING gas on a certain day, but not buying gas doesn't do a bit of good if you're still consuming the damn stuff.
To bad some people (who ever they are) are putting pressure on our government so we don't buy those nice brazilian cars that run on sugar cane. I would love to see us buy those cars and their fuel. We could probably supplement that fuel with our own sugar beets. Also when we use national gas to heat our homes it is from the US and no one else that I know of. Why is the price so expensive?
Ding ding ding. It's not a boycott if you're still using the product. Oil companies aren't going to care if a bunch of Americans buy their weekly petrol a day earlier or later - they're still buying it.
Not only that, but the only person/people that get hurt in the process are the individual gas station owners and employees who survive day to day. Exxon only cares about quarterly numbers. So if you are into looking out for the big guy while screwing the regular man, this boycott is for you.
What does the government have to do with it? They don't run the oil companies, and petrol taxes in America are tiny. If you want to boycott oil then get an electric car. Put up or shut up.
What you all should be doing is trying to get your congressman to put a $5 tax on gas. Gas is too cheap in the US as it is.
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Well Like I said. It is the spirit of the idea that I like. As consumers of gas, we need to exercise our rights in this matter, and obviously so long as there is a demand for the product we are not going to see any price cuts or any break from price fixing among the market. Thus the idea to buy an electric car or some other alternate fuel vehicle is best.
I'll chime in here. I don't know if its true. However Dad did once tell me; the US Government does in fact buy the oil. That is nations' oil reserves. It might not buy all but it does buy a chunk of the pie chart. Then the other companies chip in; maybe even a larger pie chart slice. Some might be payment from pervious deals and some might be donations in good faith. Maybe someone could justify these measures. I do know our nation has a reserve which it owns. Unless it sold full power directly to corporations. I don't think. USA would do that but the larger corporations could sell supply to Government. In short; USA outfits its core values and corporations give the rest something to bargin. I still fill USA owns almost all oil but lets companies come in with ther operations. Just hunch...
What rights? It's a free market, and currently you can buy gas at a cheaper rate than bottled water. Personally, I want to see gas prices go up, way up. I hate living in a place where the entire city is built to accomodate people who go everywhere in their cars. It pisses me off, and the only way to get these mother********ers to stop driving and for developers to start building communities with sidewalks and for the city to start supporting mass transit is if people can't buy gas.
Well I tell you what. I take public transport to work and then walk close to a mile from the train station to my office every day. But once I am back home, it isn't feasible to walk to the grocery store, to walk or ride a bike to a whole lot of places in fact. Or to take my kids to practice, after school events, the reality is that I rely on my vehicle as does my wife for quite a bit. So this price gouging that is going on, and the coordinated price fixing needs to be addressed. As for your free market comment, well as buyers we don't really have much of a free market to chose where to buy our gas since every gas station raises and lowers their prices to the same amount at the same time. So as consumers our choice comes down to not buying or finding a way to buy on fewer days.
Gouging? Try buying it in Europe, you'll go running back to your cheap American petrol with your tail between your legs.
Do you want expensive gas, or a sign at your gas station saying "No Gas"? And $3.60 (my local price) gas is not gouging. Wouldn't you still be buying gas if it was $10 a gallon? $15? More? That's what a gouging price would be - at the very limit of what people would spend. They also have the ability to lower their prices, and have all the customers go to the lower priced station. They can't, because there isn't enough gas out there to sell it at $1.25.
Gas companies don't care one way or the other. If the price of gas really, truly bothers you find a way to use/buy less gas ALL of the time. Not just 15 May 2007 or whenever the next one of this emails comes round. There are many ways to use/buy less gas.