Last Thursday I said I would, for the 1st time, try the "gas out" and not buy on the 15th. I wake up this morning and I'm on empty. I promise to buy one gallon to get me to work and back......THATS IT! Lets see what happens.
2007-05-15 01:42:38 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
No gas 4 me today. Doubt it will change anything.
2007-05-15 01:45:59 · answer #1 · answered by happyfanny 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No I will not buy gas today. But it still won't make a difference to big oil. One day of planned gas boycott leads to heavy purchasing the day before & after the boycott. If we are still using the gas today, we will still need to buy it in the future. One day is no skin off their backs.
A truly effective boycott, although not terribly realistic for many Americans, would be a vehicle boycott. Everyone would gas up on Sunday and leave their automobiles in the driveway until the following Sunday. In this manner, there would be no massive surge to the pump because people are driving on fumes. Bike, bus or walk were you need to go. Rearrange your schedule so it becomes feasable. If no one buys gas for a week (not using automobile) PLUS a few days (because everyone's tank is full for the next few days), THIS would get the attention of the oil companies. A drop in profits for ~2 weeks is much larger than a 1 day drop.
Think about it.
2007-05-15 01:59:42 · answer #2 · answered by anerasescovedo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aye-aye-aye. Some people are so naive. This is going to have NO impact (especially if people like you cheat and get a gallon). Really, though, it doesn't matter if you get the gallon or not. This has NO impact on the oil companies or gas stations, because it doesn't change how much gas they sell. All that happens is that people buy their gas a day earlier or a day later. If you really want to impact gas prices, you have to STOP USING GAS. Period. If you are not willing to walk or take the bus more, then you are going to be wasting your time bothering to "boycott" by not buying gas. Snopes.com covered this subject very well. The link is below.
2007-05-15 01:47:47 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Nope don't need any until thursday. Unless tomorrow
might need to mow the lawn. I should just buy a whole
bunch of sand or rocks and cover the yard so I don't have
to mow and that would save on gas too. HHmmmm...
that is an idea I could really go for. Not sand too many
cats in the neighborhood.
2007-05-15 01:48:29 · answer #4 · answered by chmar11 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The problem with this idea is that not everyone gets the message and people need gas. If it did work and almost everyone did not buy gas maybe gas would drop a bit but its not going to drop 30 cents or anything. If anything it would kill the economy in one day. WE could repeat black friday due to that 90% of our buisness rely on oil. By blackmailing oil companies invested in oil company's like your buisness would loss masive amounts of money not just the oil companies. So its a good idea at first looks but you have to look behind the top dollar. WE will not only hurt the middle east but ouselfs.
2007-05-15 01:49:55 · answer #5 · answered by Super Help 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
won't work; more e-mail spam
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
2007-05-15 01:45:05 · answer #6 · answered by wizjp 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
These types of things never work. If everyone didn't buy gas today, what would stop the oil companies from raising the price for the next week to make even bigger profits? Logically, the only way to affect the price of gas in this country would be to use public transportation.
2007-05-15 01:46:36 · answer #7 · answered by abgroove 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
In the same boat brother. Coasted into work on fumes. If I don't gas up today, will be sleeping on the side of the road.
Going to start walking to work. Have to leave at 3 AM to get here on time, but will save money.
2007-05-15 01:47:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Im not buying gas today, only because I dont need gas today. I filled up over the weekend. This is dumb, the same amount of gas will get used. The people who dont buy today will still need it tomorrow or the next day.
2007-05-15 01:46:09 · answer #9 · answered by Eve H 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm buying it today simply because this type of boycott will not work. The oil companies could care less which day you buy your gas on. The people that don't fill up today will have to fill up tomorrow or the next day. The only way for this boycott to work would be to reduce overall consumption.
2007-05-15 01:46:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
that's time-honored short-sighted glurge. somebody thinks that this might stress oil companies to decrease expenditures, if we purely do no longer purchase gasoline today. wager what - it won't artwork. You the two crammed up the day beforehand of this, or you will get gasoline contained in here couple of days, and the internet result would be that folk purchase the comparable volume of gasoline over a era of a week or 2. in case you prefer to decrease your gasoline expenses, attempt a form of steps: Get a extra effective vehicle. Carpool. journey your bike stroll plan your journeys to do extra on one trip. take public transportation. In different words, use trouble-loose experience instead of rapid-restoration, one-time tactics.
2017-01-09 21:41:51 · answer #11 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋