May 16 No Gas Day

This is about the dumbest idea and it comes around every year.

How about building more refineries and drilling domestically for oil? Increase the supply will cause the price to come down.

So I do not fill my car up one day. Big deal, it is not like I am not going to fill it up before or after.

The oil companies can sit it out far better than I can.

What a bunch of morons who thought up this idea. And my impression of people stupid enough to post or pass it along is maybe even lower.

This is an urban myth...the gas industry take stock of its gas on a weekly basis...so if I don't buy gas on a certain day and I buy it the next day makes absolutely no dent on the gas companies bottom line...as it would all be tallied at the end of the week anyway...now, if no one buys gas for a month that may make a difference...

Better Yet!!! Let's all go to the Gas Stations on May 19 and buy $100.00 in gas!! Don't have anywhere to put that much, start filling up the Garbage Cans at the pump and when that is full just pump it right on the ground!!! That would show those bastards that we don't need their precious gas!!! We won't be slaves to anyone!!

How about not purchasing gasoline at all? F#*! your car and run walk or bike. Our continenet is getting so dirty it's incredible!!! I am actually in favor of high gas prices.

no no, we were on to something with that putting your head through the wall thing! Here's one, let's all start smoking cigarettes at the pump, that little no smoking sign is just the man trying to control us, we'll show him!!

Asterix wrote:

Until the sales of SUVs and other large gas guzzling vehicles starts declining (largest growth segment in the automotive market last year) and I see fewer 1 occupant cars on the road, I don't have much sympathy for those complaining about "high" gas prices.

You said it! I almost enjoy watching the prices go up. The SUVs and pickups are getting so big that I feel like I'm driving in a canyon. If this is what it takes to get people to drive more fuel efficient vehicles that produce less pollution or start to get places by engaging their MUSCLES, I'm all for it.

Can't Hurt To Try (Again)!!!! wrote:

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IF THEY DON'T GET THE MESSAGE AFTER ONE DAY, WE WILL DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.

Here is the message this stunt sends:

"American consumers are morons who are unable to comprehend even the simplest principles of supply and demand."

As others have pointed out, not *driving* for a day would have an impact on the market. Simply not buying gasoline for a day, on the other hand, does nothing except let oil companies know that Americans are stupid, uneducated, and easily manipulated by illogical arguments. What a great "message."

Hey everyone, don't eat fast food on Thursday! If we all do this, obesity will cease to exist by the weekend.

I'm confused. If the American people did "boycott" the sale of gas for one day, and it did cost the oil companies huge sums of money, wouldn't they just raise prices to cover that expense?

JimFiore wrote:

You said it! I almost enjoy watching the prices go up. The SUVs and pickups are getting so big that I feel like I'm driving in a canyon. If this is what it takes to get people to drive more fuel efficient vehicles that produce less pollution or start to get places by engaging their MUSCLES, I'm all for it.

Except that vote-hungry politicians respond to the general silliness of the mass public and declare they'll do something about high gas prices. In Canada, we've got one province wanting to legislate a 2 day warning before gas prices are changed. We've got a federal party that potentially could form the government in a couple months talking about eliminating the sales tax when the price rises above a certain level. Even the present government suddenly threw out the suggestion that the extra sales tax revenue (calculated as a percentage, not per volume) due to higher prices would be funneled directly to medical technologies (whatever that means, however they plan on actually implementing it).

What are they going to do 50 or so years down the road when reserves get scarcer and scarcer, while extraction costs get higher and higher? Maybe they'll be a demand for direct goverment gas subsidies, just like some provinces have done with electricity.

Das Boot wrote:

I'm confused. If the American people did "boycott" the sale of gas for one day, and it did cost the oil companies huge sums of money, wouldn't they just raise prices to cover that expense?

I think one of the points is that by skipping just one day you're not really doing anything. Thewre may be fewer of us filling up on May 19th, but that just means more will have to fill up on May 20th. Plus, if demand goes down prices usually go down as well in order to try and stimulate demand.

Maybe some posters above have pointed this out, but this idea is so dumb that I didn't have the patience to read through any of the replies.

Here is why: It won't hurt ANYONE except us (the consumers) if we don't buy gas for one day. The only way that the oil companies will be hurt is if WE (the consumers) stop using any oil (gas) for a day, or a week, or a month.

As it was pointed out, not buying it from the retailer (gas station) for one day will just make the next day extra busy for them and it will all even out over the course of the week and month, having no effect.

If we used no GAS at all for a week or a month it would have a huge effect on the revenue of the oil companies, but the effect on the overall economy would be devastating. No gas in lawn mowers? The whole country would be in shambles. No trips to Memorial Day or Fourth of July destinations? The weaker players in the tourism industry would probably never recover or at least not until next year. People who live more than 10 miles from work would have to quit, as all forms of public trans. uses gas. And how many of them would ride a bike for a month? 20-50 miles a day? Millions of people would die from heart attacks and accidents.

Also, gas for someone who drives 50 miles a day is $135. (25 mi/gal = 2 gals/day ... $2.25/gal x 2 = $4.50 a day ... 30 days a month x $4.50 = $135.

Where can you buy a bike, extra laundering for your dirty clothes, and your dirty self, shoes for biking, lube for chain and rain coat and pants for rainy days ... all for $135?

Just the bike is $250.

Try this instead of stupid boycotts: USE LESS GAS everyday. Try that for 10 years. And vote for elected officials who pledge to understand and correct what causes these wild price fluctuations in gas.

uh.. you don't have to buy a $250 bike.. and most people already have shoes and pants. but whatever man whatever

What about WORLD MASTERBATUION DAY!

[quote]JACK OFF....... wrote:

What about WORLD MASTERBATUION DAY!

[quote]Can't Hurt To Try (Again)!!!! wrote:

What about learning how to spell?

wrote wrote:

uh.. you don't have to buy a $250 bike.. and most people already have shoes and pants. but whatever man whatever

Cheapest bikes in a bike store are $219 + TAX = $250. Do you think that a Walmart bike would hold up to 20-30 miles a day for 30 days? No. Then you have to take it in for service and that means no bike for commuting. Also means more money.

Most people do have shoes, like their running shoes, which then after they use them to commute with will be worn out, so one more pair of $80 running shoes.

I said they would need waterproof rain pants and top. I also forgot one important item: helmet!

So, yeah, whatever man, it would cost about 4 times your gas bill for one month, but after that if you kept it up you could rack up the savings and the fitness.

The Fixer wrote:

So, yeah, whatever man, it would cost about 4 times your gas bill for one month, but after that if you kept it up you could rack up the savings and the fitness.

Have you pro-rated the cost of the $20,000+ car that would not be used on a daily basis? Parking costs? Maintenance (10,000km takes a lot longer to get to when you slash your driving habits)?

As for the shoe costs, how many people will retire their running shoes from actual training while they would still have some life in them for other activities?

Fixer,

I take umbrage with one point in your point. Vote for politicians that will control gasoline prices? No thanks. That is socialism. It also puts us on a slippery slope to allow government to control other things.

Conserve fuel. Ride a bike. Use mass transit. Drive a fuel efficient vehicle. Don't buy into any politician's promises to control prices. Unless they advocate socialist practices openly (at great risk to their career) they are selling you a load of crap. Don't fall for it.

Can't Hurt to Try Again, so it might not work, maybe it hasn't worked before, but f*** it ...stop your bitching and do something for yourselves......because who really has the power to make a dramatic change....probably not anyone of us.

Let's go Einstein, come up with an idea that everyone, I mean everyone, no matter how much power they have or how little money they may have, could all participate in. I say, maybe we can at least get in a quick cheap shot to the nuts, I'm not saying this will be the KO.

"YOU CAN KILL THE REVOLUTIONARIES, BUT YOU CAN'T KILL THE REVOLUTION"