What do you think??

[Gary DiPietroSr]

Got this email today, what do you think?







NO GAS...On May 15th 2007



Don't pump gas on May 15th







....in April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in protest of

gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.



On May 15th 2007, all Internet users are to not go to a gas station in

protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places.



There are 73,000,000+ American members currently on the Internet network,

and

the average car takes about 30 to 50 dollars to fill up.



If all users did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take

$2,292,000,000.00 (that's almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companies pockets

for just one day, so please do not go to the gas station on May 15th and

lets

try to put a dent in the Middle Eastern oil industry for at least one day.



If you agree (which I can't see why you wouldn't) resend this to all your

contact list. With it saying, ''Don't pump gas on May 15th"

 

[Richard Kolb]

I get this all the time, I think it's just rehashed by random people every year, often with a different date. Will it work not buying gas on the 15th? Maybe, but keep track of how many you get this year that all have different dates.

 

[Gary DiPietroSr]

I know what you mean Rich. I have to fill a 35 gal. tank twice a week in my van and it's killing me. Just maybe it might do something to help.

 

[Casey B]

I wonder what would happen if I bought a horse and started commuting everywhere on it like the good ol' days. Would everyone complain or would it be an eye opener? I can see it now, no one would buy soda's from vending machines outside wally world because a horse was tied to it.



Fortunately I don't have to fill up as often as most because I don't drive a lot. My wife works within 2 miles of her job so it's not hurting us so bad. It does however limit the thoughts of traveling across the state when you know a tank of gas is $50.



As for the 15th, I'll try and remember.

 

[2]

It won't work, if you don't spend your 30 bucks on the 15th you will spend it on the 16th. The only way to curb demand is by not driving and not buying gas period. If you just skip a day of buying gas you will just purchase it another day. Won't make a difference.

 

[Travis Munday]

Economics 101-

It will not work.

 

[Gavin Allan]

Yep, buy a small 4-cylinder vehicle and carpool.



Cut demand or increase supply is the only way to lower price.

 

[Jake Levin]

the only way to make it work is not to "not buy gas" it's to not consume gas that day. If everyone stays home or uses mass transit that will have a small effect on fuel consumption, but not enough to lower the prices. Do it for a week or a month and yeah we might make our point. The other problem is the people who we're affecting immediately are the gas station owners, not the oil companies. the owners have some say in what they charge for gas, but it's based on what they have to pay for it. If it costs 50 cents for every gallon for a station to maintain it's profitability and it's costing them $2.50 a gallon, then you're gonna see gas for $3.00. It's the oil companies that are charging so much for the gas.

 

[Ryan D]

Buy a motorcycle =) that's what I did

 

[Gary DiPietroSr]

We all know it will not do anything. It seems to me that it's the little guy trying do something, even though they don't have a nat's chance in hell on making it work. Instead of calling congressman or whoever, the underdog talking to friends about the problem.





Better half just sent me this link: (LOL)

 

[kil roy]

this wont work, one day just wont cut it ,what you have to do is

completely boycott one of the big oil company's



say you dont buy gas from exxon/mobil, if everyone did this for a month

they would have to do something to get their piplines running again

as that much fuel and then raw crude would back up their whole

system from refinerys to loaded tankers parked with no where to unload.

only way top get rid of it is to undercut the competitor and sell cheaper

to draw customers.



problem is people in this country forget things way to easily and now that

prices are so high they are becoming complacent and figure they just have to

live with it.

car pool, combine trips, dont go to the mall just for the sake of going

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME" dont drive my OWN car? ride with someone else?:lol::lol:



i personally thank the lord that motorcycle season is back upon us here in

the north east.

my gas bill will go from $30 a week down to $10 for the next 5 to 6 months

 

[Aaron Yarbough]

I'm another motorcycle rider and my gas mileage goes from about 18MPG in the ST to 38MPG on my Honda motorcycle. That'll be my boycott for the next 8 months, or at least a good portion of that time. I realize that I can't do everything on my bike....

 

[Bill V]

RichM, that won't work either. Gasoline is a commodity that is regularly sold from one company to another. If you don't buy it from Exxon/Mobil, and instead buy it from somewhere else, Exxon/Mobil will just sell the gas to the company you're buying it from instead. No skin off their back.

 

[tom prudhomme]

So nobody buys or consumes any gas on the 15th. So what? Exxon will just raise the price another 7 cents on the 16th. I have a fun daily driver, plus a roadster & a MC for the weekends, I love burniing gas.

 

[Johnny O]

Stuff like that doesn't work. What might work is writing your Congressmen and Senators and telling them to allow drilling in Alaska and wherever else the stuff is found.

"Then one day he was shootin' at some food, and up through the ground come a bubblin' crude...."

 

[kil roy]

RichM, that won't work either. Gasoline is a commodity that is regularly sold from one company to another. If you don't buy it from Exxon/Mobil, and instead buy it from somewhere else, Exxon/Mobil will just sell the gas to the company you're buying it from instead. No skin off their back.

Bill

are you sure about that? i know that the big oil Co's sell to smaller no name brands but i had not heard that they trade amongst themselves unless this is a fairly new practice.



here in NJ i ran an AMOCO station for 14 years they used to check our gas to make sure that we were selling Amoco and nothing less as they all use their own chemical additives to differentiate one fuel from another.

i know here in NJ it would be illegal if texaco sold exxon gas labeled as texaco gas

also if i sold exxon under my Amoco label and the state found out they would padlock my pumps, i know this as fact because it happened to a station in our area a few years back.

he was selling hess gas under his sunoco label and they charged him with multiple counts of defrauding the public and shut him down until all the fuel was removed from the tanks in question.