Don't pump gas on May 15, 2007!!?

Question

On May 15th 2007, all internet users should not go to a gas station in protest of high gas prices. If all users did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take $2,292,000,000.00 (that's almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companys pockets for just one day, so please do not go to the gas station on May 15th and lets try to put a dent in the Middle Eastern oil industry for at least one day.

If you agree (which I cant see why you wouldn’t) resend this to all on your contact list with it saying, ''Don't pump gas on May 15th"

Answer 1

So we'd all get our gas on May 16th... They'd get their money either way...

We need to develop alternatives to fuel! Otherwise, it's called supply and demand. What you should be pissed about is the administration hampering research on alternative fuels to keep billions in his friends pockets...

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

There will always be a skeptic. Just don't get gas on the 15th. The strike is not on the 14th or the 16th or even the entire week of the 14th. Just 1 day. Maybe it'll work and maybe it won't (again). If it does work you will be a part of something great and if it doesn't then at least you still attempted something instead of just complaining!

Do you have a better suggestion to lower gas prices?

Answer 4

This is so sad . Everyone who is against something like this are the problems with this country . Take a stand for once in your life for something you believe in . You are just not fully understanding the purpose behind this boycott . Just try it . What would it hurt you to not pump gas on a certain day ? Maybe just maybe it would do some good , remind the higher ups how much power we can have . Taking a stand , having that right is what makes this country great so if you are proud of being an American take a stand . Don't be scared of your power . There are plenty of people in other countries that would be plenty happy to able to stand up for themselves , many gives theirs lives ALL you have to is NOT pump gas one measly little day ...ooooooh

Answer 5

So we all pump our gas the day before or the day after? How are they losing money? Wouldn't a protest of a week or more work better? Everyone car pool, ride your bike, walk do whatever is necessary to not use gas for a week then I think you might get the gas company's attention. This has been tried for the last 10 years of my life and yet gas prices keep going up.

Answer 6

you be conscious of, if the oil businesses have been smart, they had jack the fees up on the sixteenth, because of the fact they be conscious of a pair idiots certainly waited yet another day to refill. for this reason greater earnings! that's what i might do if I have been an evil oil organization. i could be turning this ineffective symbolic protest into greater revenue. And if i can determine this out, you could wager the sharks at Exxon can too! To Missy S - specific I do have a greater effectual advice to diminish oil fees. supply up making use of gasoline. Or a minimum of decrease back how plenty you utilize. enable's say you could communicate 10 million human beings into taking public transit or carpooling or cycling to artwork sooner or later each and every week, instead of making use of. enable's say each and every of those might have burned 2 gallons that day. that's eighty MILLION gallons no longer used that month. because of the fact the call for is going down, fees will drop.

Answer 7

Absolute waste of time.

If you want to actually accomplish something, don't DRIVE on May 15. Otherwise, you'll just be buying gas a different day and the same amount of gas will be sold either way. You have to actually use less gas to make it work. Ride your bike to work or take the bus, or ditch your SUV and buy a car with better gas mileage.

Answer 8

yes all 6 of us will not pump gas on the 15 thats almost $300 out of the oil companys pocket...that should teach them a lesson.

Answer 9

Unitl May 16th when everyone needs gas and the oil companies get their 3 billion back. Nice try though.

Answer 10

If you really want to send a signal choose another method.
Don't buy gas for 1 month from one gas station.
Let's say company A.
Buy from anywhere but company A.
How long do you thing that company A would last in business if you don't buy gas from them.
Then company B... and I would say that in couple month they will get your signal.
One day it's nothing... One month or more... diffrent story:)
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