You think not buying gas on May 15th 2007 will lower the prices?

Question

I heard if we didn't pump gas on May 15th the government will have to lower the prices, I have heard this on Myspace and in my emails! Will this actually work? Are you going to do it?

Answer 1

i heard it worked in the 80's or early 90's or sometime...but i really don't see how it could work. I'm not going to get gas that day, simply because that's not my normal day to pump. but it's not the gov't that will have to lower prices, it's the oil companies. I honestly don't know how we're going to get these prices down, they're just going to keep going up...

Answer 2

Those people (devils) who control the gas prices don't give a **** if we don't buy gas on the 15th because they know we will have to eventually by gas at some point. You would have to get hella people to hold up on pumping gas for a while before they would actually do anything. When people start buying gas again, they'll probably just raise it again. It's a no win situation. They're just greedy people who want more money and don't care about what position they're putting people in. Something needs to be done about these insane prices, though. Hey, @ least this would be a start on part of the consumers.

Answer 3

Myspace? HA! Get real, buddy. If you really think everyone's going to not buy gas on a particular day and jack the oil companies, you're nuts. They will be the ones laughing because you'll be out of gas and back at Exxon on the 16th when they jack the price to make up for the one in a thousand people who actually did what they read on a teenybopper website. And why do you rely on the government to lower the prices? Why are they not doing something about the cost of housing too? Because it's not their job. We have a free market here. I would have thought you knew that. But being 14 and all, you probably haven't learned that in your social studies class. Use Myspace for yacking with your friends and setting up play dates at McDonald's and leave global economics to grownups. They are the ones paying for your Mighty Kid's Meal and burning up three dollar gas (almost the cheapest in the world, Einstein) driving you to Game Stop. The only way to bring the price of fuel down or keep it from going up is for everyone to use less all the time for a long time. As long as carmakers keep producing (and for some stupid reason, probably that "free market" thing I told you about earlier, are able to sell) vehicles that get 15 to 20 miles per gallon, and people continue driving more and more, and keep buying dirt bikes, sand rails, jet skis, motorhomes, and generators, and dragging them all to the river every weekend, that is not going to happen any time soon.

Answer 4

Well for one the government doesn't set gas prices. I hope you don't buy gas on 5/15, so I don't have to wait in line to find a gas pump that day.

Answer 5

Another ubran legend. The problem is we all have to buy gas eventually. Wether we hold out for a day or a week, the fuel companies can hold out alot longer. Try driving less. I'm a Road Worrier (field service), and it seems to me no matter how high prices go there are just as many cars on the road.

Answer 6

So I will but gas either May 14 or May 16, what is the difference? I will still be buying gas. THEY know that, too, so it will not make any differnce in the pricing.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

ROTF, LMAO, no.

Now if you got everyone in the country together and stopped purchasing gasoling from say May 15, 2007 until May 15, 2008. I'd say they'll probably lower gas prices.

Answer 9

It will not make any difference. We would have better like seeing a donkey fly than lower gas prices.

Answer 10

gas prices probably won't become lower in just one day, but it's a start. i think it just might work. I'm going to participate in it..