A boycott is planned for May 15...no one is to buy gas to encourage the gas companies to lower their prices...it worked before so should we do it? I think Yes.
2007-05-06 15:49:20 · 15 answers · asked by teri 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Sure, but I will fill up on the 14th just in case...
2007-05-06 16:03:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure most folks over in Europe would LOVE to be paying 3 bucks a gallon for gas.
Besides, stations would just sell twice as much the day before and the day after, which means a rush on demand, which means, yep, you guessed it, an INCREASE in gas prices. Sorry, but the one-day boycott on gas comes up all the time, and anybody who knows anything whatsoever about economics recognizes that the idea is just plain stupid.
Have a Nice Day. :)
Oh, if you really want cheap gas, it can be had real cheap in places like Iraq, Venezuela, even Cuba (Hey, you can't buy a car in Cuba but at least the gas is cheap!)
2007-05-06 23:15:25 · answer #2 · answered by pater47 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This actually worked before? Hardly...I remember gas prices at a dollar a gallon in college. Haven't seen them slow down since. Try some subtantial things first. Fix your car. Regular maintenance can seriously improve your mileage. Can you imagine what just a 2-5 mpg improvement would do if that happened across the board. That's a minimum of 10% increase if you're only getting twenty mpg. I'm for better efficiency standards personally. It's going to take time for some tech's though to get down to the "used" car market though. That's when you'll see the results of current efforts, not really before.
2007-05-06 23:09:20 · answer #3 · answered by Walter M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all, a one-day boycott won't work because people aren't that committed to anything except their own convenience. A 30-day boycott might work, but how many motorists will give up their gas-guzzling SUVs for that long?
Secondly, getting oil companies to lower their prices is futile. This country needs independent development of alternative fuels (without the oil companies and any other 'big business' getting involved in it so that they can corner the market and keep prices artificially high). And,we need to start buying more fuel-efficient, environmentally-friendly vehicles. Thirdly, we need to rely more on other means of mass transportation and individual transportation (such as metro transit systems, buses, trains, car-pooling, mopeds, bicycles and even an age-old method of transportation: WALKING!).
The oil companies have played mind games with motorists for too many years. First they raise the prices to $1.90 a gallon, then - when enough people scream - they lower back to $1.40. Then as the prices slowly creeps up again, people don't mind as much (until it reaches $2.60). Then there's more screaming - and the oil companies lower the price to $2.20 and everybody's happy. Then they raise the price to $3.00 and everybody screams until it comes down to $2.60...and, like lobsters languishing in a pot of lukewarm water, we all settle back down into lala land until the price goes up to $3.30 a gallon. Then we start screaming as the water in the pot begins to boil over. Let's face it: 'big oil' has made suckers out of all of us. We can't even understand why it's stupid to use up dozens of plastic bags (instead of paper or cloth bags that are not petroleum-based). The goal shouldn't be to try to lower the price of gasoline by a few cents a gallon; the goal should be to eliminate the monopoly that 'big oil' has on feeding our addiction to cheap, foreign oil. -RKO- 05/06/07
2007-05-06 23:14:00 · answer #4 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
No. What do they care if you don't buy gas on the 15th? You'll either buy it on the 14th or the 16'th. They aren't actually losing money since you're just going to buy the gas on a different day. You think they care if you fill up on monday or tuesday?
2007-05-06 23:10:52 · answer #5 · answered by Squall316 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Any boycott will only stave off the inevitable. George W. Bush has other plans for the oil prices. He owns a lot of oil.Why do you think he wants all of our young men to be in this numbnut war? It gets oil higher in price.
2007-05-06 23:08:40 · answer #6 · answered by Cintia 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it did not work before
boycotts do not work
as gas is a fungible commodity
like electricity
and thus what ever is not sold locally is easily sold at current market prices elsewhere via pipe lines
the only true way to hurt OPEC is buying smaller fuel efficient cars and or to wean ourselves off foreign fuel supplies and onto other alternative fuels..
yeah good luck on that one...
2007-05-07 00:26:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. I think gas prices in america should be as high as they are in europe. maybe the auto makers would come out with some better smaller fuel efficient vehicles and america would quit creating so much pollution and get some better mass transit.
2007-05-06 22:59:55 · answer #8 · answered by red_rose_rancher 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
this has flaws since public transportations, such as taxi, bus;s etc need gas, and i think a few people off myspace or yahoo wont make much change.
this summer will suck.
2007-05-06 23:06:18 · answer #9 · answered by Arpan G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we should, but a lot of people mind walking. its a good idea though. by summer some say it might go up to $4
2007-05-06 22:57:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋