how many people brought gas yesterday?

Question

It was supposed to be a gas strike yesterday, I didn't by any gas what so ever although I urgently needed some. I just feel like the gas prices are ridiculous I pay about 3.00 a gallon for gas and this is maddning. The government is just taking total advantage of the people, they see that we are willing to pay for this gas and only complain but there needs to be a resistance we all need to march to the white house and protest these gas prices bad enough we can barely maintain our homes and buy a gallon of milk which is also 4.00 right now and subject to go up even higher, they only do to us what we allow people its time to grow some balls stay away from the pump

Answer 1

Sing it Sista. Get bikes folks, use public transport, maintain your vehicles and do not tailgate. Stop buying boxes with wheels that are not aerodynamic! We must reclaim our power by voting with our pocketbooks!

Answer 2

Did you buy gas today though? Are you going to buy gas tomorrow? I don't like paying $3.00/gallon either but not buying gas for one day is going to have no effect on the price of gas. Everyone that didn't buy gas yesterday either bought it the day before or will buy it today. The "boycott" didn't change whether or not you will buy gas but when you will buy it. The White House and the government have little or no control over the price of gas, but the price gouging oil companies do.

Everyone needs to decide to change their lifestyle if you want true price relief. Did you ride your bike, ride public transportation, walk, or carpool to work this morning? Some simple things everyone can do to conserve gas, this will not only cut demand but also increase your own personal savings on fuel.

1. If you have to go less than a mile and a half: ride a bike or walk. It will take longer but you burn absolutely no gas doing these things. For each trip like this you probably save about a tenth of gallon of gas (maybe more if you have a SUV).

2. If you need to buy groceries, pick up the kids, take something to the cleaners all while coming home from work, make plans to do all this in one trip rather than three or four trips. The less mileage you drive, the less gas you burn.

3. Check your tire pressure. Properly inflated tires can increase fuel efficiency by five to ten percent.

4. Drive the speed limit on the highways. Cars are most efficient between 55 and 65 MPH. This is the speed you should drive.

Answer 3

The oil companies didn't hurt yesterday. It is a complete misnomer to say that if you boycott gas for one day, they'll lose any money. You're going to have to buy that gas eventually; it makes no difference in their profits whether you buy it on Tuesday or Wednesday. They know you need it. They can wait a day.

It would have an impact if everyone permanently boycotted the pumps... but seriously, what are the odds? First of all, most of us can't walk to work, and some of us don't have public transportation available to us to get there (my office, for instance is 30 miles from my house in a different state, both in suburban areas). None of us who have jobs can afford to lose them by not coming to work. So boycotting for the length of time it would take to make an impact at all is completely out of the question.

So why bother?

Answer 4

Well when to want to start marching, we can remain silent but one day we will find freedom. We are using the same amount of fuel as we did 5 years age and the government is making 3 times the money and no I bought gas Sunday 10 gal. $28.89, because 10 gals. in my work truck is all I need for the week.

Some of you are just out right full of denial, this person is trying and some of you are just going with the flow, making plenty money now, but what happens when these jobs are sent to another country and your unemployed, will $5.00 a gal/ seem fare. I say buy just what you think you need not $30.00 or $50.00, but 15 gal or 9 gal, that will keep them in check and allow them to see what we are doing, and when they change we again change our buy habits or should I say we are addicted to fuel, food, soft drinks burgers, beer smokes, so lets start breaking the habit.

Answer 5

I didn't buy any yesterday because I didn't need any.

Do you know why the gas prices are so high? Many of our refineries are broken and unable to put out as much gas as normal. The main reason they are broken is because the environmental lobby refuse to let us make new refineries. So we are forced to use old broken down refineries that have been around for 30+ years and need to be replaced ASAP. Not to mention each spring refineries are forced to go off line to reformulate the gas for California because of the ridiculous environmental regulations which do no good in real life.

If you want to see gas prices go down, lobby congress to build more refineries and start getting oil from countries that don't want us dead.

Answer 6

How silly. You need gas and don't buy it. I didn't buy gas yesterday, because I didn't need to buy gas yesterday. But if I had known some Americans were being so silly, I would have filled up yesterday just for the principle of it.

Answer 7

You have been misled. Refusing to purchase gas on a certain day does not lower pump prices or corporate profitability. Most Americans still drove their normal routes and thus, did not decrease the demand for gas. Demand is the route cause of escalating gas prices. It is silly "strikes" like this that allow our government in conjunction with corporate America to take advantage of our citizens. If America truly wants gas prices to decline they will limit and reduce their personal consumption of gas.

Answer 8

I filled up the tank of my Ford Taurus on Sunday.
Plus, I walked to the train station yesterday, and didn't go to the gym after work or go grocery shopping because I would have had to drive.

Saves me that much gas so I don't have to spend $40 to fill my tank on their overinflated product.

The gas stations were pretty bare yesterday by me, so the word definitely got out. (I pass a lot of them on the train.)

Answer 9

I am not buying gas all week. I bought some Sunday and I might buy some this weekend, but I don't know yet. If people continue to do nothing, nothing will get done.

Answer 10

I bought gas from the Oneida Indian Nation station near me - because I support the Oneida Nation and they charge 5 cents a gallon less on Tuesdays. See, I grew up on Indian reservations and I'm what y'might call sympathetic to Indian causes. Hey - we Irish descendants understand what it is to be a despised minority!

Answer 11

there have been countless +5M earthquakes around the planet the day beforehand of this so i do no longer think of fracking extraordinarily brought about or effected the VA quake. As volcanic interest/plate tectonics is increasing all over the realm there will be greater earthquakes in aspects no longer "frequently" linked with them. they're a results of geological cycles, no longer human interest.