On May 15 we are asking everyone to NOT buy gas this whole day. As you probably know, gas prices have already reached $3.00 in most places, in an attempt to lower them we are boycotting gas for this one day. With your help this could be a success, please ask everyone you know not to buy gas on May 15. The last time this happened, gas prices were lowered 30cents!! But we need your help!
2007-05-03 11:44:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
This may not have been successful in '99 but from wat i heard the actual first time this happened was sometime before that and it was actually successful..i've heard this from many people
2007-05-03 12:03:06 · update #1
really I didn't know that, ok i'll fill my car a day or 2 before.
2007-05-03 15:43:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 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 07:26:11 · answer #2 · answered by JB 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Head for urbanlegends.com for information on this. The e-mail circulating isn't true. The last time this boycott was called (1999), it was generally ignored, and didn't work -- those people just bought gas the next day -- and gas prices stayed where they are.
2007-05-03 11:52:18 · answer #3 · answered by wdx2bb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Snopes verifies this as a total urban legend. Gas didn't drop thirty cents in '99, it didn't effect anything at all.
2007-05-03 11:56:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I still say boycott the Bolsheviks that keep taking our money.
2007-05-03 12:14:08 · answer #5 · answered by ironchain15 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how can we forget.
2007-05-03 18:17:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋