May 15th...?

Question

There is an email circulating around the world that is asking all of us to refrain from buying gas on May 15th.

The message is mixed, but the intent is clear. We don't want to be controlled by big oil.

You can take it or leave it. I'm just passing the word.

Answer 1

I am sick of hearing it called BIG OIL because some liberal decided to demonize BIG corporations.
If I need it I'll buy it.
The problem with GAS PRICES is that environmentalists have so many formulas that cost so much and when one is slow in production prices go up.

Answer 2

Stupid!

So let's assume 100% compliance. That means anyone who would have filled up on the 15th instead fills up on the 14th or 16th. So the gas companies have record sales on those two days, and none on the 15th. They are still selling every bit as much of the product. They are still getting the same dollar amount from you. What kind of message does that send?

Companies do everything by month and quarter. For the month and quarter, no difference is made. Even if the protest lasts a week, still no difference, as everyone tanks up before to get them through that week.

They've got us over a barrel, and the only way to "protest" the high price of gas, is to boycott using it. Take public transit or buy a Prius and teach those SOBs at Exxon, Iran and in Detroit.

If you really want to do something, than organize a day to NOT USE GAS. That actually will send a message to the oil companies and Middle Eastern oil countries. But you won't do that will you? Because you won't change your lifestyle. You would rather send some stupid symbolic message than do anything that might actually work, because it involves sacrifice.

I'm going to make a special point to fill all of my families 3 cars on the 15th to protest this stupid protest.

Answer 3

This will only hurt people like you and I, the people who own and work at the franchises, the people who distribute the fuel, those who are supported in the transportation of the fuel as well as the producers and processors.

The only thing that hurts big oil is the government regulations which of course they pass the costs on to us and the development of a competitive product. For those who might think they are not trying, you are nuts. The first one out with a product that is price and cost competitive will have a huge market until the competition catches up.

Face it, today there is no cheaper product than fuel from petroleum, and the money does not just go to the middle east or some fat cat executive in Houston. The industry feeds a lot of families in AMerica

and this is only going to hurt them, your fellow AMericans

but go ahead I never like crowds at the fuel pump anyway.

I think a much better idea would be for all who think fuel is too expensive, or that it supports terrorists, that you refrain from driving three days a week, that would have a much greater impact than skipping buying gas on the 15th only to have everyone and there brother at the pumps on the 16th.

Face it people, it is what it is, there is no alternative, not that you would be willing to pay for.

If you really want to do something about the price of fuel, get congress to remove its confiscatory taxes on it.

Answer 4

Yep, it also makes a lot of sense not to fill up immediately before or after the 15th. They just make up the sales on those days.
If at all possible, limit all driving the entire week, unless necessary.
Apparently there isn't that much of a shortage if the companies are raking in the billions!!! There is absolutely no reason for prices to be this high, with the exception of profit.

Answer 5

I use less than an average of 5 gallons of gas a week and I drive a full size 4x4, 4 door pick up. I will not be buying gas that day. I do not buy that much and when I do, I buy in bulk and have the fuel tank on the farm filled.

Answer 6

I've heard this too.

The logic isn't sound. People must get fuel, on the 14, or 16 if not the 15.

Since the terrorist tried for the Saudi lines, you'd think Americans would get together on the issue of fueling ourselves. Make it eco-friendly if you want to, just get it in play already. We are the ones to be crippled if our supply is lost, in all manner of speaking.

This is not worried over enough.

Answer 7

This same thing has been tried many other times in the last 30 years and it never works...it is supposed to cripple the gasoline industry and force then to lower prices but that has never happened...its just a pipe-line-dream.

Answer 8

It's stupid and isn't going to accomplish anything. In the first place, this idea was born on idiotic "MySpace", where 80% of the members aren't even old enough to drive, much less own a car.

Answer 9

Semper Fi, I got many of the mass emailings, it may get their attention so I'll try and avoid it by filling up on the 14th

Answer 10

And how about big oil being controlled by liberal democrats that wont let them do new drilling and make new refineries?

What difference does waiting one more day to buy gas make?