dumb idea....won't change a thing...

 

This come up whenever there has been a recent run up in the price of gasoline. The fact is that the only way to make a downward affect on the price of a product is to either increase its supply, or reduce its demand. This dumb scheme does neither. There are no evil boogiemen stealing your hard won dollar. There are many, many, many ordinary people who own stock in the oil corporations and expect a return on their investment .YOU wouldbe MUCH more effectivein your goal if you seriously conserved fuel and energy in all its forms. Do you use flourescent bulbs instead of incandescent?Vocally support oil exploration anywherein the US that there are deposits. Support the clean use of coal. Support means writing your congressmen and senators, and buying productsthat conserve energy, even if they cost more (in the short term).

 

How's that Shelby feel in the bottom of your pants ilmor? Pretty exciting, huh?

 

Yes, its AWESOME![8D]

 

Nah, I bought Ol' Yeller 12 years ago. We just started punching holes two years ago when gas prices rose to where it was economical for the drilling companies to go back to work on the permian basin. You guys may not remember the 70's and 80's when it was not worth the effort monetarily to drill because we could get sweet crude from the middle east cheaper than we could drill for our own in our own country. The raq head of OPEC were not stupid enough toprice their crude above ours because we were the world's largest user of their oil. That was back then. Times are a changing.

 

How long do you think till OPEC members start getting assasinated?

 

I'm filling my tank that day.

 

I laugh every time I see that idea proposed.

But even if it would work I wonder, why anyone really want to screw over the oil companies anyway? It's clearly an idea onlysupported by people who aren't very good with economics.

 

youll have to boycout it for months before they would care to me if the price is high i only buy enough to last a day when its cheap i fill it up

 

All this does is eventually make the price go up.When we dont buy gas that means that there is too much supply on hand for them to store all the gasoline that would be made during the time we "dont gas up".So what happens? the refineries cut production.Then when they need to go back online to make more gas after you fill up from not getting gas from may 15th it creates more of a demand for gas because EVERYONE will fill up on the 16th.That in turn causes a lack of supply and the companieswill raisethe prices of gas once again using the excuse thatthere is a lack of supplyand it will cost them more to fill the demand.They surely are not going to take the losses so they hand that loss to you in the price of a gallon of gas.
A perfect example is hurricane Katrina.when everyone heard about the loss of louisiana's refineries there was a panic and everyone ran out and filled up their cars.Several days later there was no supply for the demand and the prices went up.The same thing happens when refineries cut production.Sure for one day the oil companies lose a little money,but when everyone goes back to filling their cars up the resultant hike in gas prices makes them twice what they lost.So in reality by not buying gas on May 15th you will cause the rise of gas prices not a reduction in price.
Jeff