dont buy gas dec1-10th 2007? will this work.?

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NO GAS "December 1st – December 10th 2007". Conserve the gas you have just go to work or school no joy riding...its time to take a stand against this gas issue once again....these Oil companies are making billions off of gas, and the price is still rising. Their bank accounts are getting larger and larger. They could use 1 billion dollars to help the middle and lower class afford gas.

America’s technology has improved so much over time, but mpg is still the same since the 80's? We can send a guy to the moon; make smaller cell phones, but can’t get better gas mileage or lower gas price's....that's a joke. They are making cars that get better gas mileage but who wants to pay $25,000 for a Prius (they look so weird) that’s not fun to drive. Have you ever tried to trade in your old car for a new one? Making new cars with better MPG really doesn’t help us who have older cars with bad MPG. Right now gas is close to $3.50.....so what, should we wait until their charging us $6.00 a gallon. At $6.00 a gallon if you have a 23 gallon tank you'll only spend $138.00 to fill up. That’s not bad right? But when Minimum wage is below $7.00 per hour, it’s a decision between food or gas.

I know we have to use gas, but do we have to pay so much. When will they make enough money from gas to give us a break...ExxonMobil is playing the American people (http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/earnings/2005-10-27-xom_x.htm) check out this site for profits.

Supply and demand...yeah if our supply is so low why are we still making cars that run off of fossil fuels. They really mean their supply in their accounts are low and there demanding more money, which can be considered blood money. I mean are they using the money to build a new universe.

So if you can, please don't buy gas "December 1st – December 10th 2007". Its gonna be hard, many say it’s impossible. And some say it won’t make a difference. They said the same thing to Columbus when he sailed west and Rosa Parks when she wouldn’t give up her seat on a bus one afternoon. This isn’t a black or white issue or even a big car small car issue; but its time we take a stand against this gas issue. I know we are all tired of talking about it, so let’s do something, even if we can show them that we know and we aren’t fools, let’s do something. Something is better is better than nothing.

I know most of us are tired of spending all our money on gas. I can buy a pair of shoes every time I fill up. I can use gas money to eat at red lobster everyday (I know my big truck drivers know what I’m talking about).... we got people dying because of this liquid gold, I had a cousin who was killed b/c of gas?

So try to spread the word send this message to at least 3 other people... we need to show these oil tycoons what’s up. Don’t forget now "December 1st – December 10th 2007". Hundreds of people are joining in....let’s turn it to thousands or millions or let’s make some billions like Exxon does."

-God Bless America

Answer 1

Won't work. They may lose money over the week, then they will jack the price up when everyone wants it the day it's over.

You're only screwing yourself if you try this.

Best solution: get a hybrid, or very fuel efficient car. Drive less. Use public transportation. Ride a bike. Etc.

Get America to do that, then we are all set!

Answer 2

Not me--I have no intention of making some meaningless protest and spending the entire day 12/11 in a gas line...did that during the Carter Administration involuntarily, I'm not going to do it now voluntarily.

Answer 3

I live in Houston Texas. So does most of my family. It's 30 miles one way from my place to theirs! When I called for "full-coverage" Insurance, I was asked "how many miles per year" to which my response is 30,000 miles without leaving the state and that is NOT using my POV for business.
Good luck with that.

Answer 4

They do male cars that get better gas mileage....the number one determing factor on the amount of mileage a car gets is weight, to reduce weight, you have to reduce size....... so the problem isnt that they cant make one...its that americans wont buy them "They arent fun to drive"

Answer 5

thats madness! a full gallon lasts me a less than a week!

I live in Maryland, not new york city!

Answer 6

Why not just start buying American made Hybrids?

Answer 7

No, sorry won't work.

The great "Gas Out" boycott and why it's complete folly - Me

Ok, I’m not a great economics professional, but I do remember this very basic rule about what drives prices for anything: Supply vs. Demand. To drive the price of something down, you either need to increase supply or reduce demand. The boycott simply won’t work because it does neither. Even if the boycott was 100% effective and NOBODY purchased gas on a specific day, it would still have no effect. Over the week surrounding the boycott date, people would still buy the same amount of gas. When you look at the whole supply and demand picture, demand is the amount we use, not the amount we purchase on a given day. Daily purchase can fluctuate a lot. The oil companies watch trends and averages.

Ok, since we did not affect demand, let’s look at supply. Again, the boycott would have no effect here either. Refineries have the ability to store large quantities of oil and gasoline (and other fuels) to allow them to deal with the normal variations of production and consumption. When prices are high, these reserves tend to be low anyway; they could go for several days without shipping ANYTHING before they were full.

As customers there is not a lot we can do to directly change supply. Remember, to drive down prices the supply would have to increase. Since the current supply is adequate to keep up with demand, there is no incentive for the suppliers to increase the supply.

What we can drive is demand. From the numbers I have read doing some research on this, we don’t have to go very far to get some decent return. Here is a great quote from an article on MSNBC:
"It turns out that we wouldn’t have to cut consumption by 40 percent or 30 percent or even 20 percent to send pump prices lower. Try 7 percent.

That’s how much demand fell off last winter. After peaking at 9.7 million barrels in the week of Aug. 4, 2006, U.S. gasoline demand hit a low of 9.0 million barrels during the week of Jan. 19, 2007 — a difference of 7 percent. During the same period, the average U.S. price peaked at $3.083 in August and fell to $2.213 by the end of January — a drop of 28 percent.

Even a 1 percent drop would make a difference, according to Tom Kloza, president of Oil Price Information Service." See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18615572/ for the full story.

So, how do we save that 7%? The MSNBC story gives to great starts:

"1. Stop driving like a jerk. By getting rid of jack rabbit starts and last minute stops Edmunds.com found you can save up to 31%. "

"2. Slow down. According to fueleconomy.gov, your gas mileage drops off sharply once you blow past 60 mph. By cutting your speed you can save 7 percent to 23 percent, depending on how heavy-footed your usually driving style. Those are pretty easy and don’t cost anything."

More ideas:
Take the bus. You don’t even have to take it all the way. For me, there is no bus or even a decent combination of busses that would get me from home to work and back. But there is a bus that starts about half way there and drops me off at work. I save 32 miles per day and my employer even covers most of the bus pass cost. I pay only $15 per month. I couldn’t go 32 miles day (the rest of my commute) for $15 a month. I save 192 gallons per year just by talking the bus.

Carpool. Think about this example: You and your neighbor both drive 20 miles per day to get to and from work. If you drop off your neighbor at work and then drive to your place of work it takes 30 miles. For this example (to make math easy) we will also assume the opposite is true, if your neighbor drives you to work and then goes to his work, he drives 30 miles. Even in this situation you save 10 miles per day. When you both drive separately each of you drive 20 miles each for 40 miles total. Together you only drive 30. If you could only work it out to do this twice a week, you would save 1040 miles per year! Since you would drive 10400 miles per year if you drove separately (40 miles per day each * 5 days per week * 52 weeks per year) = 10400, that’s 10%! That puts a whole new spin on driving a little out of your way…

One argument I have seen in recent e-mails calling for the one day boycott: “in April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.” This statement is a flat lie. Just simply not true. Gas prices for the entire year of 1997 varied from a low of $1.217 (on 1/6/1997) to a high of $1.438 (on 9/15/1997). Even more interesting is this, the average price on 4/7/1997 was 1.372. One week later (4/14) the price was 1.384. Funny, that’s HIGHER. The gas prices went up (not much) by $0.014. The lowest point they reached after 4/7/1997 was on 7/29/1997 at $1.247, $0.125 lower than the 4/7 price. You can see all of the data here: http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/retail_gasoline_prices.html#1997

MSNBC has another great article with the numbers and math to show why the latest e-mail is pure bull. Take a look here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18492185/

So, if you want to drive down gas prices you can. You just need to drive less.

Drive on, but drive less.

Answer 8

we tried that before, it did not work then either.

Answer 9

no