If the whole country didn't go to work for 1 wk to protest gas prices, do you think it would change anything?

Answer 1

Yes, but the problem is to get anybody let alone everybody to do it. Just the one week worth of not using fuel would crate a surplus and cause the oil company's to beg you to buy their product. It would cause Boats full of oil to be backed up to the wellhead. With the country shut down and no non strategic people working would cause the economy to tremble. Hey there is strength in numbers, those elected officials in Washington would *** all over themselves trying to pass legislation to make it unlawful or something for this to happen. But screw them they got a $3000 raise. What did you get?

Answer 2

Yeah. Most of us would lose our jobs. On the upside, we wouldn't need gas anymore.

But seriously, it wouldn't change anything because the price of gas is not determined by the gas stations or even, really, the oil companies. Gas prices will remain high because we don't drill our own oil, we refuse to build refineries, and each state has it's own blend of gasoline. Change any of those three things and gas prices will significantly change.

And keep in mind that oil prices are primarily determined by brokers in the oil futures market, so any protests or boycotts aimed at gas stations has no effect.

Answer 3

It would only make the stock market drop, decrease our productivity, the price of gas wouldn't budge. What we need is something more than a week of anything..we need a long term strategy to replace oil as our chief fuel...we need to get over our fear of nuclear, we need to tap thermal sources from under the earth, we need to harness wind, we need to produce ethanol (and we need to do it by not just growing corn, ethanol can be produced from lots of waste plant matter), we need to harness tidal energy, we need to recycle other wastes to obtain methane gas from them as well. And somebody should figure out how to use our vast coal reserves cleanly!

Until we start to become energy omnivores we will continue to be at the mercy of the middle east which sits on a huge oil reserve (but one which is not without limits). We are competing with the rest of the world for that same reserve and the competition will only get stiffer with time.

Its time to stop thinking in the short term and thinking on a longer span of time with a more permanent goal.

Answer 4

Its hard to tell being we have oil guys in the white house. I know the republicans would look good. They gave those tax breaks to the rich just in the nick of time.

Of course the ones who got screwed by the republicans were middle class and the poor. They would suffer more than the rich pricks if they didn't work for a week.

Answer 5

I don't know if it would help, but i know the rent wouldn't get paid. might not eat for awhile. I do wish we could all try it though. just do something to stick to Exxon at least. I don't buy their gas anymore anyway. They still won't pay what they owe to Alaskans, for the oil disaster. They lose in court, but just keep appealing for years. The rip offs!!

Answer 6

I don't think it would change the economy at all. Crude oil barrels will have their own price and will rise and fall, due to what happens in the middle East.

Answer 7

we would get fired and the gas price never will change in this country

Answer 8

No, because if you spent that week buying more crap made in China, you would only build their economy even stronger where they would need even more oil. Spend a week not buying "made in China" will get you much further ahead.

Answer 9

more like country by country, on different days of the week or change to cooking oil, yip I am serious

Answer 10

the government needs your taxes. it wood upset the system
but nothing would change. but a lot of people can't afford to
strike for a week. besides i go to macdonald's a lot. i need my
egg mc muffin.