Who isnt going to buy gas on May 15th? I heard if everyone doesnt buy gas the oil companys will have to?

Question

lower the prices the next day so everyone try not to buy gas on this day it worked in 1997 and the oil companys lost billions!!!1

Answer 1

It is baloney, it never worked it won't work, and Rio, you are just furthering the garbage. There is no "Coca Cola executive" and no "Halliburton engineer", it is all part of the hoax. It is absolutely unethical to send this stuff around making people think some kind of action like this will lower prices. Want lower prices? USE LESS FUEL!
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp
And there wasn't even a gas-out campaign in 1997 by the way! Ever notice, NOBODY REMEMBERS IT? Don't you think we would if it had really happened?

Answer 2

First off, there was no gas protest in 1997, and when these were tried, gas prices did not go down!

The only real way to bring down gas prices is to look at the old supply and demand equation. Either increase supply or decrease demand.

Insist that our lawmakers allow drilling in ANWR and anywhere else there is oil.

Also, STOP USING SO MUCH GAS! Is it any wonder why gas prices are so high, when every other vehicle on the road is an SUV or big pick up truck and people are driving more than ever?

If you are into these one day protest things, than try and get millions of people to not use gas for 1 day on May 15th. Ask them to carpool, take public transportation, bike, telecommute, whatever.

Figure if you can get 10 million people to not use gas that one day, and figure they normally would burn 2 gallons that day, that's 20 million gallons suddenly added to our gas supply.

Answer 3

Boycotting oil is stupid anyways. What difference does it make if you don't buy oil on the 15th if you are only going to buy it on the 16th. Not only that but these companies will probably only use the one day slump as an excuse to raise the price of gas even higher so that they can keep operating and not lose money or some such thing. If you don't like gas prices stop using gas, or at least use less of it.

Answer 4

First of all if you work and drive there you are going to need gas. Second its not the oil companies raising the price of gas its the stupid government. The government is importing oil from other countries instead of using the oil thats being pumped off the usa shoreline. All of the companies like shell and diamond are pumping for the usa reserves. we don't use any oil out of our usa reserves if we did gas would only be 30 cents a gallon. If anyone is to blame its the government for importing oil from other countries and not using the oil thats being pumped off the us shorelines. Seriously come on these are billion dollar companies that really are not going to feel a pinch in there Butt if you miss one day. Im sure everybody doing this is going to run out the night of the 14th and fill that tank up. So no matter what day you pump on there still getting there money!

Answer 5

Here is another approach that WILL effect supply and demand, aka, PRICES! Fill ONLY what you will need for a short term usage: Let THEM store the unused gas during the week. As their storeage remains full they will be forced to lower prices to speed sales.
If a full tank, for you, will last a week or even two, you are storing their gas for them. It will mean pumping more often. But when thousands of tanks are kept partially full the companies will be holding on to their product longer, forcing lower prices to unload it.
If enough of us drivers that can, keep our tanks 1/3 or 1/2 full, this has a huge effect on the consumption rate, and so, prices.

Answer 6

How is not buying gas for one day going to hurt a huge company with billions of dollars??????

Answer 7

If you dont buy it, you will fill up the day before or the day after, either way, your still buying. You wont walk to work. Now, if everyone walked, or biked for a week. Yeah, it would go down! one day just to fill up the next is kinda pointless.

Answer 8

man i got like a big gas guzzler i run cam 2 in a really high octane gas that is like 12$ a gallon and i get like 8 miles a gallon so im not eaither is anyone i know

Answer 9

its false
and read http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp
you would ONLY hurt the independent who still have
buy gas from the oil company
they dont get it free!

Answer 10

GAS WAR - an idea that WILL work This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It's worth your consideration.

Join the resistance! I hear we are going to hit close to $ 4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.

Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May!

The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us!

By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.

How?

Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!! I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers.

If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all! (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am . so trust me on this one.)

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference.

If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK Count me in! I don't buy from ExxonMobil or Shell because over the years both companies bought out independent refineries just to shut them down, thereby removing competition and refining capacity from the market. All for the purpose of inflating the price we pay at the pump and lining their pockets.