Don't buy gas on the 19th!!

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Don't Buy Gas On May 19th

It Has Been Calculated That If Everyone In The United States Did Not Purchase A Drop Of Gasoline For One Day And All At The Same Time,? The Oil Companies Would Choke On Their Stockpiles.

At The Same Time It Would Hit The Entire Industry With A Net Loss Of Over 4.6 Billion Dollars Which Affects The Bottom Lines Of The Oil Companies.

Therefore May 19th Has Been Formally Declared "Stick It Up Their Behind " Day And The People Of This Nation Should Not Buy A Single Drop Of Gasoline That Day. The Only Way This Can Be Done Is If You Forward This E-Mail To As Many People As You Can And As Quickly As You Can To Get The Word Out.

Waiting On This Administration To Step In And Control The Prices Is Not Going To Happen. What Happened To The Reduction And Control In Prices That The Arab Nations Promised Two Weeks Ago?
Remember One Thing, Not Only Is The Price Of Gasoline Going Up But At The Same Time Airlines Are Forced To Raise Their Prices, Trucking Companies Are Forced To Raise Their Prices Which Effects Prices On Everything That Is Shipped. Things Like Food, Clothing, Building Materials, Medical Supplies Etc. ? Who Pays In The End? We Do!

We Can Make A Difference. If They Don't Get The Message After One Day, We Will Do It Again And Again.

So Do Your Part And Spread The Word. Forward This Email To Everyone You Know. Mark Your Calendars And Make May 19th A Day That The Citizens Of The United States Say "Enough Is Enough" [smilie=e:




-- count me in.

Adam
 
These things get passed around all the time, noone ever listens to them or cares. I mean evem if you sent the email to everyone in the world that had an email address and they all read it completly, and all of them followed it completly, people would still get gas.

You wanna do your part just fill up and dont pay, but leave a card at the pump that says "eat my shorts you owe me a few tanks of gas."

ROFL
 
Hey I'm willing to try it. I can hardly afford to drive the Challenger because of this.

guess it's affecting some of us worse then others.
 
jedimaster said:
You wanna do your part just fill up and dont pay, but leave a card at the pump that says "eat my shorts you owe me a few tanks of gas."
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I heard some guy in Ontario is doing something similar. He's paying but not the full amount. It costs him $25 for a tank now and it used to cost $20 so he's only paying $20 for his $25 tank of gas.
 
you cant buy gas here unless you pay first inside or use your credit card at the pump. No checks, no pump and pay.
 
You guys have it stricter than here. Some places around here have pre-pay after a certain hour at night but there are none that you must pay before you pump.
 
mopar_man said:
I heard some guy in Ontario is doing something similar. He's paying but not the full amount. It costs him $25 for a tank now and it used to cost $20 so he's only paying $20 for his $25 tank of gas.
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Sounds like THEFT, to me... I don't think you'd be gettting away with that, for too long.


-M

PS: I like the silly political angle they added into this BS. As if its the government's responsibilty to provide cheap gas... Supply and demand. Buy a car that gets good gas mileage, if you don't like it. My Blazer gets 8 mpg. You can bet I wouldn't be driving it, if I couldn't afford it. Simple as that. I certainly don't think I have a RIGHT to drive that thing!! JMO.
 
..the only"real" way for this "idea"(if you can call it that) to work is if everyone didnt buy gas for about a week or 2 cause everyone knows they hike up the price whenever they choose...but they have already paid for the gas thats still in there underground tanks.....not to mention they would lose money on it in turn raiseing the price.....would proly take the entire nation not buying gas till they lowered the prices for them to actualy do so
 
Living in a city where a huge amount of your gas comes from, we hear these ridiculous ideas too. Doc has a good link, quite true. Whoever calculated that is a poor accountant to say the least. A good accountant once did the same calculations and it was noted that it would not effect the oil industrie at all.
 
whoever said above iif you can't afford the gas drive something else. I agree with that. We have a Pathfinder and it sucks gas for a daily driver. thats why we are selling it and buying a diesle jetta to commute with, then we will use a minivan to haul the kids around when we have to. I have a 4 cyl 2.5 engine and trans from the acclaim that I think I will put in the van save a bit of gas there. I am also toying with the idea of using a chevy sprint I have to build it as a city electric vehicle(but thats a long ways off). The acclaim has been bumped off of he daily driver list and is now going to be built as an occaisonal weekend car.
 
69.5CUDA said:
..the only"real" way for this "idea"(if you can call it that) to work is if everyone didnt buy gas for about a week or 2 cause everyone knows they hike up the price whenever they choose...but they have already paid for the gas thats still in there underground tanks.....not to mention they would lose money on it in turn raiseing the price.....would proly take the entire nation not buying gas till they lowered the prices for them to actualy do so
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First of all, I don't buy into the whole idea of not buying gas for one day making a difference. people will buy ti the day before or the day after and everything will average out...

What 69.5 CUDA says makes a little more sense and could mess things up for them at least until the next shipment of fuel comes in.

See, the gas stations get a better rate if they can take on a full underground tank. That's why you see some drop prices just before they expect a shipment. They'll make up for the loss with a bit higher price when the tanks are full.

So, if we could manage with no gas for a full week, not only would they lose those sales, they'd also scramble to get rid of the fuel they have before the next shipment comes in.

The only piece of the puzzle left is what happens when tey get that shipment and hike the prices. How high would it be then??
The only answer would be that we'd hope to have hoarded enough during the "sell-off" to get through the first week or so of hogh prices. When they see that they can't sell enough at those high prices, they should lower them.

Then you've got to try and start the cycle again...

Unfortunately, the reality is that we wouldn't be able to do it.
 
I think some of you are missing the point. No one expects to make them go broke doing this. It's to make a point and express an opinion.

All I'll say is those who do nothing better not biotch about the gas prices.

Adam
 
The problem, Adam, is that the gas companies won't even notice. They don't inventory their fuel daily anyhow, and folks will either gas up the day before or the day after. In the week-end numbers, it all looks the same. There's no suggestion of curbing you fuel use, boycotting anyone, or doing anything that would hurt the gas companies whatsoever. They won't even notice.

If you read the link I posted, not only has it been tried before, folks even used the exact same e-mail 4 years ago. There are even little newspaper clips in there about previous attempts.

You want to make a difference? Ride a bike. ;)
 
with prices as they are im wondering if its cheeper by the 55 gal drum...so im not paying for an atendent and manager and someone to ship it to the station

in all seriousness...you realy think ups fedex and us mail would realy not buy gas...then theres law enforcement and all the others....

imo they need to put a law on the gas stations not allowing them to change the price on there board except when they get there shipments...IE set the price the day they get there shipment and there not allowed to touch it again till they get another shipment in..IE 1 price per shipment.....i mean hell changeing the price on a daily basis is the same as hikeing up the price of beer daily...orwhenever they felt like it
 
Ain't capitalism great? :D

You couldn't make them change their prices based on shipment only. Not only is that obstructing the free enterprise system on which our economy is based, but it would be virtually unenforceable. It just can't work.

They get product based on both time and necessity... a slower station, like I worked in, got a delivery of each type of fuel (regular, mid-grade, premium, diesel) at least once a week, but sometimes more often when our small 5000-gallon tanks got low. We didn't get premium at the same time we got regular no-lead. Sometimes, we'd even get a few hundred gallons here or there when they'd overloaded the truck for another station, and didn't want to transport the fuel all the way back to the depot.

If anything, such regulations would only serve to increase fuel prices. Station owners would have to try to foresee crude prices' fluctuations, and would constantly price their product according to the worst-case scenario. Competition keeps the price down on the local level, but when they're getting beat up by their suppliers... well, they have to make a living.

The current nonsense is just typical election-year shenanigans. Prices will return to a more-reasonable level late in the year--unless we have the unlikely combined scenario where John Kerry both wins and adopts the Al Gore "Save the Tiger-Striped Butt Slug" ultra-green tree-hugger method of government (which would have had gas at $4 over 3 years ago, according to Gore's own 2000 platform). I don't see that happening.
 
LOL! Today, the gas price was 83.9 cents a liter, for regular. This afternoon, it was jumping up all over town to 93.9 cents a liter. Every dill hole in town was lined up at the gas stations that were still selling for the lower price.
I drove out of town, spent the 5 minutes driving and paid a whopping 1.05 for a liter of premium....total cost over normal? Dunno....maybe $6? I mean really....who gives a shiit? Is it worth the 20 minute line up? Nah. [smilie=e:
 
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