2007-05-28 08:36:20 · 9 answers · asked by ted j 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Commuting
The marketplace decides the price of everything, not just gasoline. Someone suggested boycotting a certain station for a day. That would not matter any. Boycott for a week and and there will be a shortage elsewhere and prices will go up. The boycotted people will ship thier gas to the high price area and the price will not go down. A better expalnation is here:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp
2007-05-28 11:52:02 · answer #1 · answered by eferrell01 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If people only bought the cheapest in town, even if it meant waiting in line, then other stations would have to lower their prices or not sell gas. If demand was less the price would also drop. The fact is Americans won't wait in line and a lot of people won't shop around for a lower price. Oil companies also know we need the gas regardless of the price. So your question of buying from one company would work if it was allways the cheapest company.
What will never have an effect is these one day bans "don't buy gas on the 25th", or whatever day they come up with. I don't know why people think the one day ban will have an effect. Didn't all those people just get gas the day before or after and still drive that day....DUH?
2007-05-28 09:49:22 · answer #2 · answered by not 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, if anything it would raise the price of gas because the one gas company would have a monopoly over the industry, and then we would end up in a Standard Oil situation, where that one company would buy out the other failing businesses and become a conglomerate. No choice = bad.
2007-05-28 17:23:23 · answer #3 · answered by ddhboy1000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It won't make lots of a distinction, in spite of gas we are no longer procuring on the fifteenth, would be bought on the 14th or the sixteenth. the two way, it won't positioned a dent on the oil companies' wallet. somebody forwarded me an digital mail approximately no longer procuring gas from the two greatest gas companies : Shell and Chevron. If we stopped procuring gas from them, they're going to have not got any determination yet to diminish the fees and so the different companies will have not got any determination yet to do an identical to compete in revenues. i think of that's a plenty greater advantageous theory.
2016-11-05 21:38:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every one is talking about the OIL Co's . If ,as you stated the GAS was only bought from 1 specific CO> then the others WOULD lower their prices,because they would not be making any sales..
2007-05-28 08:48:04 · answer #5 · answered by Tired Old Man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
78 million barrels per day are produced...78 million barrels are used...the station doesn't care.opec only produces 1/3 the oil in the world...
2007-05-28 08:44:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You've been given a really good answer to this question. The very short answer is - No.
2007-05-28 08:44:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no way. OPEC kicks rocks with gas prices because they don't have any competition.
2007-05-28 08:44:31 · answer #8 · answered by carthur16 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
no, all gasoline distributors buy their oil from OPEC. OPEC dosn't care about anyone, only about making money. They set whatever price they want because they have no other competition.
2007-05-28 08:39:59 · answer #9 · answered by Chris 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋