made a suggestion about May 15 to stop buying gas for that day and no one seems to think its worth while and had no suggestion but to except it so i guess its not really a big deal to anyone. I think its such a rip off but I know I can afford it so I guess i will do like all of you and just live with it.
2007-04-30 17:59:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
It won't work first of all because a lot of people will need to get to work no matter what. Gas prices are a rip off but as there is a profit margin for gas companies, they can develop better ways of extracting fossil fuels and I think this will lead to drops in gas prices. I think this is what has been happening in the US for quite a while.
2007-04-30 18:04:09 · answer #1 · answered by F1reflyfan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. There was no nationwide "gas out" in 1997. There was one in 1999, but it didn't cause gas prices to drop 30 cents per gallon overnight. In fact, it didn't cause them to drop at all. Despite the popularity of the email campaign, the event itself attracted scant participation and was completely ineffectual.
2. There are over 205 million Internet users in the United States, far more than the 73 million claimed.
3. If, say, a hundred million drivers refused en masse to fill up their tanks on May 15, the total of what they didn't spend could amount to as much as $3 billion. However, it doesn't follow that such a boycott would actually decrease oil companies' revenues by that amount, given that the average sales of gasoline across the entire U.S. is under $1 billion per day in the first place.
4. Whether the total impact was a half-billion, 3 billion, or 10 billion dollars, the sales missed due to a one-day consumer boycott wouldn't hurt the oil companies one bit. Think about it. Every single American who doesn't buy gas on Tuesday is still going to have to fill up their tank on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, making up for Tuesday's losses. Sales for the whole week would be normal, or very close to it.
A meaningful boycott would entail participants actually consuming less fuel -- and doing so in a sustained, disciplined fashion over a defined period of time -- not just choosing to wait a day or two before filling up as usual.
2007-05-04 07:27:31 · answer #2 · answered by JB 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup. As long as people continue to drive & allow themselves to get ripped-off by the big Oil Companies- the price of gas will continue to rise. You can count on about another $1. gallon a YEAR for the forseeable future (Unless there's a shortage or something- that would tack on another $1 or so). We're Sheep getting "sheared"- & all we can do is "bleat" about it... :)
2007-04-30 18:31:39 · answer #3 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A boycot won't work...What you don't buy today, you will have to buy tomorrow. If every didn't buy gas for 1 day, do you think anything would happen, no because the company knows you will be back when you need gas. or pay big towing bills to be towed off the freeway
2007-04-30 18:12:06 · answer #4 · answered by bob shark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is hard to live these days without gas. Where I live there is very little public transportation, so you have to drive. I try to do as much as I can in one trip and conserve fuel. I never thought it would get this high.
2007-04-30 18:45:36 · answer #5 · answered by Sharon S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't like them one bit, but apparently they haven't reached that particular high where people are refusing to drive. $10.00 a gallon might just do it, or at the very least, it would force people to buy a new hybrid car because the savings would exceed the cost of the hybrid after only a short time.
2007-04-30 18:06:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
human beings in Europe were paying 2 or 3 circumstances what we pay interior the U. S. for YEARS. The very last time i grow to be there (2 years in the past), in eire, gasoline grow to be the equivalent of about $8.50 a gallon. that is why theychronic such dinky vehicles. per chance human beings in this united states of america will purchase fewer gasoline guzzling vehicles and initiate to protect somewhat more advantageous if gasoline expenditures more advantageous. we are making our enemies wealthy through paying them enormous funds for gasoline for our gasoline guzzling automobiles. I hate the better gasoline expenditures, too, notwithstanding that's in simple terms about turning out to be an situation of nationwide protection that we are no longer ability self-sufficient in this united states of america.
2016-11-23 19:14:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The revenue the greed-crazed oil companies and their Arab cohorts would loose if no one bought gas for one day would scarcely be noticed by them. Kinda like shootin' an elephant with a b-b gun. They have us by the short hairs and they know it..!
2007-04-30 18:10:29 · answer #8 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
still find out about the joe fuel cell , free driving that dosnt destroy the planet , water that burns , water that cleans up the polution why the petro industry isnt renting them in beyond me [at least water is american water
the price of peace may be as sinmple as selling us all stainless steel joe fuel cells
2007-04-30 18:05:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree, no one has enough balls to make the sacrifice, I guess.
2007-04-30 18:11:20 · answer #10 · answered by bobbie v 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋