Do not pump gas on May 15th

There is an email going around with the following message. Who knows if this would have any effect or not, but it might be worth a shot to see what happens.

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Do not 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, try not to go to a gas station in protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places.

The average car takes about 20 to 30 dollars to fill up.

If everybody did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take $2,200,000,000.00 (that's BILLION) out of the oil company's 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 oil industry for at least one day.

No problem, my car is in the shop. I'm sure my dad will though... i mean its a commuting and construction combination thing. The three c's.

Originally Posted by: ekstasis16In April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices.
Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.

This is not true and these tactics simply don't work.

Overall demand remains the same so prices are not going to change. If you want reduced gas prices, then we need to increase the supply (more refineries) or reduce demand (don't drive so much, sell your SUV in favor of a minivan or a car, demand more fuel-efficient vehicles and be prepared to sacrifice performance for it, etc).

yeah, to a multi-billion dollar company, a one day of lost sales isn't going to have any impact at all. Even if it did, all they'd do is raise the prices to cover the losses.
Face it... they've got you by the you know whats, and they know it.

$3.00 a gallon heh? don't come to the UK then or you'll be payin the equivalent of $9.00 :mad:

Originally Posted by: schmangeyeah, to a multi-billion dollar company, a one day of lost sales isn't going to have any impact at all. Even if it did, all they'd do is raise the prices to cover the losses.
Face it... they've got you by the you know whats, and they know it.

Yeah I wanted the same thing... save it'd be less articulated due to my brain being quite pickled and then I'd just sound like a douche.

In fact, if my car wasn't in the shop i'd make sure to pump gas. And I'd go into a little rant, but that last sentence there is a good example why I didn't say anything... I'm not very diplomatic I'm just a refined meany head.

i honestly go into this argument every day over someone else that posts this garbage on myspace, ect.

most of them just dont get it....


look at it this way. aside from all the wonderful things said above me, theres just this simple fact: if you dont buy it the 15th, you'll buy it the 16th, or the 17th. i mean, face it. unless we fill our tanks with biodiesel or pig **** on the 15th, we're still gonna have to pay for our driving time on the 15th the old-fashioned way.

here's an idea...how about instead of a "no gas day", we have a RIDE YOUR GAWDAMN BIKE day.


christ alive, people. its not a difficult concept. gas prices go up like crazy in the summer and go back down in the winter, steadilly getting more and more expensive. its called product inflation, and more than that, its called "we can charge whatever-the-hell we want for this and you'll still buy it".

Look familiar?
10 characters in white eh

Originally Posted by: schmangeyeah, to a multi-billion dollar company, a one day of lost sales isn't going to have any impact at all. Even if it did, all they'd do is raise the prices to cover the losses.
Face it... they've got you by the you know whats, and they know it.

Exactly.

As long as we keep driving the amount that we do, they keep moving the same amount of product; they'll just sell more on the 13th and 14th (to the people who top off to make sure they've got enough to get through the 15th and then on the 16th and 17th to the people who're now running on fumes and need to fill up again. All we'd be doing is moving one days sales to the days immediately before and after it.


Hell, they big oil companies wouldn't even notice a blip in their bottom lines because they sell their gasoline to distributors who sell it to gas stations who then sell it to you.