USA people don't buy gas on MAY 15th

[Jenks]

Re: USA people don't buy gas on MAY 15th

Man, the morons sending this "don't pump gas on the 15th" email through the wires need to be fucking shot. I've received this email at least 5 times this week. Bunch of freaking dumbasses. Not pumping gas on one day won't change the price of oil 1 cent. Seriously, who makes up stupid shit like this and thinks it will work? Way to keep it alive Sakio!

[unkownartist]

Re: USA people don't buy gas on MAY 15th

instead of filling up with gas they should invest the money they would of spent into projects that look @ other fuel sources, 37 million times say around $40 per head now that could hurt if they got a result from the tests or whatever

[Miguel]

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^^^ world economics are based on oil ... it will be money spent with no retribution, at least not at the moment

[unkownartist]

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thats true but they are going to have to start doing it sometime and tbh i'd rather see some guy with with his heart in it running the shop rather than a company thats greedy for profits

[floridaorange]

Re: USA people don't buy gas on MAY 15th

by a hybrid that day

[Miguel]

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im tankin everybodys car on the 15th ... who wants some gas ??!!

[Miroslav]

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i've already filled up for the week so i'm not worried about it

just thought i'd help and you guys should do the same
SAVE THE WHALES

ok, let's actually look about this with some semblance of mental aptitude.

Your plan would result in the delaying purchase of fuel for at least one day. Unless your driving habits change for good, then you will have to purchase that fuel the next day...or a few days after that.

So, if your suggestion even worked (which it won't anyways), then you will have succeeded in deferring some cash inflow for the gas retailers by...a few days. You protest today and then go back to sheepishly buying gas tomorrow, because you have to.

CONGRATULATIONS! You're so brilliant

[res0nat0r]

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looks like someone read this post too. please stop with dont buy gas shit.

http://www.dailyfueleconomytip.com/?p=358

Thanks to the recent run-up in gas prices, many of our email accounts have become cluttered with chain emails asking us to boycott major gasoline stations on a certain date in the future. The reason being, we’re pissed about having to pay so much for gas and if we all band together for one day and refuse to buy gas, we’re supposedly going to cost the major gas companies billions of dollars and force them to drop the price of gas.
For those of you who continually forward these emails to everyone on your contact list, please stop. This is one of the most ridiculous ideas out there and it would never work.
There are plenty of extremely logical and obvious reasons why this tactic would never work, yet most of us tend to overlook these as we focus on trying to place blame for the nearly 40% jump in the price of gas since the end of February. As is usually the case, logic tends to take a backseat to emotion.
That being said, I’m going to try my best to explain why this idea won’t ever work in the real world and why you should automatically delete any emails like this that you may receive.
The first (and most obvious) reason is you are simply delaying the purchase of the gasoline you need; we’re not actually decreasing the demand for gas (which might bring the prices down), we’re just shifting the demand to another day in the very near future.
For example, let’s say that 100,000,000 people decide to join this boycott, which causes 1,000,000,000 fewer gallons of gasoline to be purchased on that particular day. In theory, this would cost the major gas and oil companies about $3 billion in revenue.
However, you mean to tell me that during the next couple of days that those 100,000,000 people aren’t going to go back to the gas stations to purchase the gas that they didn’t buy the day they were boycotting? Of course they’re going to; they still need all that gasoline in order to get to work, drive the kids to soccer practice, etc.
There wasn’t a drop in demand, just a shift in demand - which means that the gas companies don’t actually lose the $3 billion in revenue, they just get it within the next couple of days.
The second reason is if for some insane reason this boycott tactic actually worked and did cause the gas companies to lose money, do you actually think that these companies would lower prices to gain back the small percentage of their total annual revenue that they lost? I highly doubt it.
The more likely scenario would be these companies would actually slightly RAISE prices in order to try and collect some of the money that they may have lost.
Hopefully it has become pretty obvious that the only way we’re going to be able to save money on our car’s gasoline is to reduce the demand for gasoline by driving less and driving more fuel efficient vehicles. It’s not going to come by some crazy scenario where we boycott gasoline stations for one arbitrary day.
So on that note, please take me off of your spam list.

[JK224]

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True it sucks that its back up to 3.00/gallon. However, it has been higher than that before...too bad I got a car just when prices were leaving the $1 range.

[runningman]

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hey, guess what...oil companies aren't villans, and they can't control the prices of oil through collusion. the market sets the demand for prices, and right now demand exceeds supply due to refining problems in the states. you shouldn't be protesting gas prices, you should be protesting poor refining capacity and procedures.

and whinning about gas prices. gas prices were higher, on an inflation adjusted basis, in the 1960s than they are today.

do you know the steps required to get a barrel of oil out of the ground? millions and millions and millions of dollars are spent on everything from siesmic data collection & modelling, to drilling, completing, fracturing, putting in artificial lift on a well, pumping it to a refinery...and yet a barrel of oil costs less than a barrel of WATER.

food for thought...

I don't agree with you on this one chief. What you aren't taking into consideration is that we get the oil from third world countries who get paid almost nothing. So the labor is practically free and the government gives huge tax breaks for the shipping. Don't forget that the USA will guard your pipelines..

[Miroslav]

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I don't agree with you on this one chief. What you aren't taking into consideration is that we get the oil from third world countries who get paid almost nothing. So the labor is practically free and the government gives huge taks breaks for the shipping. Don't forget that the USA will guard your pipelines..

So you're saying...the Middle Eastern Sheiks who sit on seas of oil...get paid almost nothing?

Ever heard of something called OPEC?

[88Mariner]

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this thread is hilarious, and soberingly scary at the same time....

[runningman]

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So you're saying...the Middle Eastern Sheiks who sit on seas of oil...get paid almost nothing?

Ever heard of something called OPEC?

I didn't say the sheiks don't get any money.. i'm saying the punk who pumps it out of the ground gets paid nothing. Ya I have heard about OPEC and I have also heard about the geneva convention but we don't always follow the rules do we.. but guess what oil companies don't have to follow the rules.. who is gonna discipline them? the government?? I don't think so.. Don't tell me you still believe that we live in a democracy. That ended with Woodrow Wilson.. oil is the dirties game around..

[day_for_night]

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I don't agree with you on this one chief. What you aren't taking into consideration is that we get the oil from third world countries who get paid almost nothing. So the labor is practically free and the government gives huge tax breaks for the shipping. Don't forget that the USA will guard your pipelines..

WHAT??

No matter who you get the oil from, you pay market value. Oil is a fungible commodity. It often gets traded 30 times or more before it ever reaches the US. Who the money goes to is a different conversation.

Ohh...and do you know who the number one exporter of oil to the US is??...its Canada.

[anonin]

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sounds like you "don't buy gas on such and such date" are really serious this time, fuck that, i'm on exxonmobil's side...