Would this send a message to oil companies and the government that we will not be terrorized by high fuel cos

Question

If all working people took $30.00 out of the bank on Friday, put it in a drawer and not spend it, would it send a message to all businesses, that the working class people will not work just to pay for fuel and demand that the fuel price for transportation to work and fuel for home cooking, heating and cooling must be regulated to the medium income of each reagion of the country.
This is the results, if this amount of workers commited themselves, it would be hard but achiveable
150,000,000 - working people X $30.00 per week = $4,500,000,000.00 X 52 = $234,000,000,000.00

I think the government and business would notice, the banks would for sure because they would be short that much money every week, they stand to loose plenty and something would have to give. I think they would get the message, lower the fuel and food cost or put regulations on them.

I'll start this week

carbonbiased

Do the math, how much X 3% and that is a very low % of what they woud loose,

john k

That is a great idea and I would do that, but just a small change 1day per week, just leave the freg. on, that would get them hopping

Answer 1

Good plan.
I do not use Fossil Fuel Power 4 hours a day per week, will increase and prolly be a full 24 hrs. When we all stop useing Fossil Fuels for 1 day a month the corporate will take notice and respond.

Answer 2

drop in the bucket. Why would the banks notice something that's a part of their normal operations? Get real.
If people want to send a message, start writing to your state senators and letting them hear what you think. Start supporting alternative fuels. Next time you buy a car, don't buy a road hogging SUV. Start using public transportation more. If just a couple extra people from each town stopped using their normal consumption of fuel every week, I bet that would be enough to possibly make someone take notice. There's a lot of ways to send a message, but realistically, don't bother taking the $30 out of the bank. Just don't buy the fuel that you normally do and conserve.

Post note: what math??? People withdraw more than that from their bank account every day. Not to mention that it wouldn't send any kind of message to the oil companies at all. They don't give a rats --- whether you withdraw 30 bucks from the bank and keep it in your drawer. They just care about the 30 bucks that you spend on their fuel. Now if on a certain day everyone decided not to purchase fuel, that might start something.

Answer 3

There is no way in hell this country is going to put control on the price of oil. That's what was done in the 70's and it failed horribly. There isn't a government in the world that would try that stunt again. Once was enough for me. You want prices to fall, reduce the usage, shutoff your Nintendo, xboxes, PlayStation's, big screen TVs, microwaves, computers, park your SUV, turn the air up in the house to 80 or higher, start carpools. Quit buying crap made in China. Their demand is getting close to ours. The stronger we make their economy the more they need.

Answer 4

People taking money out of the bank and leaving it in a drawer isn't going to send a message. People not driving as much would.

Even though gas has gone up people haven't altered their driving much. Take an economics class and you'll see what I mean.

Answer 5

Very specious thinking. Getting the cooperation of 150,000,000 motorists is like trying to herd cats.

If you want to send a message to anyone, it should be the commodities traders. THEY are the ones who jack up the price of oil, buying at one price and selling at a higher price.

Answer 6

You can't get people to commit to save for their own retirement at that rate.

If you can't get people to hoard money for themselves, I doubt people would care enough to hoard it to make this type of statement.

Answer 7

Count me in .
At least it will be and effort

Answer 8

i don't think so .but any thing worth a try