How to lower gas prices!!!?

Question

Well i got an email quiet a bit back and I've basiclly done this from then on and i hope everyone else will do the same. For starters as most of you know EXxon and Mobile are the largest gas companys... What we should do is not by from these companys and force these companys to lower their gas prices because of all the customers they will be losing. In effect to this the other companys will have to lower their gas prices to compete with them. We should all keep doing this till the gas price in the companys reach around 1.50 or lower :P

Answer 1

burn less gas?

Answer 2

I got this same e-mail. But when I got it I thought, well, they are two major companies, that deliver to smaller companies. So, how do you know who is selling their gas for sure?

Also, last week while down visiting in Ohio, I was told about a day no-one was to buy gas. So I fueled up the night before. But, for some people it didn't seem to matter. They either didn't know or didn't care, they still bought gas. The conglomerate's know we will still buy their gas.

This is Tuesday and I already heard on the news how the motels are being booked full in the area where I live and apparently the gas isn't affecting the travelers. So, you know it's not working...it don't seem to affect anyone,,except me. I just figured it out...it's costing me about $100.00 a week or so for gas. You add $20.00 a day for food x 30 days = $1000.00 a month just for gas and food if it stops at that. I don't know how people are going to survive. I live alone I can't imagine a poor family with children trying to survive.

How to lower gas prices....develop something to take its place.

Answer 3

Personally, I actually don't really care that much. I do commute to work, but I drive a very fuel efficient vehicle ('02 Ford Focus ZX-3 2.0 DOHC 4cyl. w/5spd manual trans. - it can get in excess of 45mpg). Sometimes I ride a motorcycle - an '06 Suzuki C50 (804cc V-Twin), it gets in excess of 55-60mpg. I don't like paying a lot for gas, but I just sit back and laugh at the idiots and their SUV's. I can fill my tank up for less than $50 and drive it for hundreds of miles. Fuel costs here are relatively low compared to a lot of other countries, and were kept artificially low here for a long time. I am fortunate to be gainfully employed, and to have sufficient cashflow. This has been soley because of my hard work however. I blame this incompetent administration for the higher prices though. They have been completely unwilling or incapable of helping out the average working Americans who have been suffering high fuel prices that are taking a big chunk out of their paycheck.

Answer 4

When gas was $1.50 a gallon, everybody was bitc*ing about that! 'Big oil" simply manipulates the prices as they manipulate American motorists. Now, with prices at $3.35 a gallon, we'll all be tickled to death when it goes back down to $2.90. But just a few months ago we were all bitc*ing about $2.90!!
The answer is to STOP USING GASOLINE. Instead of driving, try using mass transit, or buy a moped, or ride a bicycle, or maybe even WALK once in a while!
If you boycott Exxon-Mobil, they'll simply buy up BP and Texaco and Hess and Getty Oil until there's only one gasoline marketer in America. THEN, they'll fix the prices at whatever they damn well please and there won't be anything anyone can do about it. These price-fixers and price-gougers know we're addicted to their product; they don't CARE if they rape their customers. -RKO- 05/22/07

Answer 5

Unfortunately, there are a lot of factors in gasoline production that are outside the regular person's control. Part of the problem with the recent hike in gas prices comes from the fact that our oil supplies increased, but we did not have enough refinery space to change the oil into gasoline.

Those factors aside, we need to start thinking about things we CAN change. We can change how and what we drive, when we drive, and where we drive.

Drive more fuel efficient vehicles, and buy for the type of driving you do the most. For example, why are so many city/suburban people driving SUV's, trucks, Hummers, V8 cars? I don't see very many suburban people driving regularly through mud, pulling boats or trailers, or racing their cars. So these vehicles really hurt more than help. Plus, these same vehicles typically cost more, and cost more to maintain and fuel. Stop complaining about gas prices if you own a vehicle that is bigger than what you need for common use, you've contributed to the problem.

Start using public transportation people! You CAN impact your local governments. Ask your city representatives to use buses, subways, etc. Make them more readily available. I am very disappointed how behind Minneapolis is on this. I recently visited San Francisco and was amazed at how easy it was to get around by bus/subway. Plus, it was cheap and fast. Minneapolis started up a light rail system for the downtown areas within the last couple of years, but we still see far too much commuter traffic. If you are driving 30 miles to work, chances are you work with someone that is on your route, why not carpool? If everyone did this, we would see far less congestion on the road, which would help fuel economy. Short term, if we are using less gas, we save on our pocket books. Long term, if every individual found more economical ways to conserve gasoline, the demand goes down, as will at the pump prices.

Let's not forget that all things are cyclical when it comes to the economy. Gas prices were as high as $3 or $4 per gallon during the oil embargo's of the 1980s. They also saw record high gas prices in the 70s. Let's not forget that in the late 1990's, gas prices hovered around $1. So in 20 years, we are in the same boat we were before. Gas prices will go down again, maybe not to $1, but we will see a significant decline in pump prices in the next 5 years.

My point is if you are going to complain, start doing things to better the situation. Last year I read a survey that said that even though gas prices continue to rise, consumption has also increased, and that most people took that extra money they are spending on gas out of other areas where they would be putting that money, whether it was savings, vacation, entertainment, food, etc. Why?? Let's stop consuming so much oil!! Our wallets and our environment will thank us.

I live 2 miles from work, and if I didn't have to be dressed up and presentable, I would ride my bike to work. I refuse to commute during rush-hour. A. who really enjoys sitting in traffic? and B. I'd rather keep my 29 mpg than lower than to 22 by crawling at stop and go rates. I moved closer to work to avoid commuting. One tank of gas lasts me 2-3 weeks, including the occasional long distance drive.

And please people, drive the speed limits! Use your cruise control. Aggressive driving reeks havoc on your engine and your fuel economy, plus it is a big contributor to accidents. Most engines got optimal gas mileage between 55-65 mph. Driving over that puts unnessary strain on your engine.

ok, I've run out of things to snipe about :p. My point is everyone needs to do everything they can to help, stop complaining and start DOING!

Answer 6

That is the stupidest email out there. What does it matter if you buy gas on that day or the day before or a day or two after? If everybody could hold off a month it might make a slight difference.

Answer 7

That is a stupid idea. The only thing that will lower gas prices is less demand or more product. Both are unlikely to happen. CLINTON IN 08!!!!!

Answer 8

Well.... you could try one thing,,,ask the government to stop taxing the gas, see any thing that we have to use for living or addicted to use, gov tax the $@@$ ,, just like gas, cigarettes, alcohol, houses,
[[[ where the tax money go? the answer ( WAR, WAR and WAR ) , be safe

Answer 9

Only those nations that nationalize their oil interests will maintain their democracies. Natural resources should never be privately owned.

Answer 10

i own a repair shop and nothing we can do right now will help bring prices down any,that's the one thing we need to survive,we all have to work and to get to work most of us have to drive,and to drive you need gas,this is basically what it narrows down to,supply and demand,good luck with it.

Answer 11

IT WOULD BE A LEAST 50 CENTS A GALLON CHEAPER IF THERE WASN'T ANY TAX ON GAS.