fuel boycott

[kstehnacs]

GAS STRIKE - MAY 19th

With the price of regular gas climbing over $2. 00

This could be an interesting concept. Easy enough to plan

to fill-er-up on

5/17 or 5/18... but don't' buy...



NO 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 TO

THEM" 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.



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!



MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND MAKE MAY 19TH A DAY THAT THE

CITIZENS OF THE

UNITED STATES SAY "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH"

 

[MrWinkey]

You need to boycott fuel for more than 1 day to hurt anybody.



See attached URL



Urban Legend



Also see this url





Your still buying the same ammount of gas your just buying it on a diffrent day. If everyone didnt buy gas for a week maybe it would do something but I doubt it.

 

[klenger]

Quote from the above link:

An event like a "gas out" can sometimes do some good by calling attention to a cause and sending a message. In this case, though, the only message being sent is: "We consumers are so desperate for gasoline that we can't even do without it for a few days to demonstrate our dissatisfaction with its cost. " What supplier is going to respond to a message like that by lowering its prices?

I currently buy fuel about once every three weeks as it is. The chances of me buying on a boycott day are pretty slim, even if I wasn't trying.

 

[MrWinkey]

Sorry... . I should have said a few thousand people need to not buy for a week. Even better would be a couple hundred thousand.





I understand the cry for lower gas prices as I too tightend my belt and only fuel up once every week and a half now. Riding the bus sucks but it's alot better than filling up 2x a week.

 

[Dkevdog]

Like Ken pointed out, this will never, ever work. Even if you could get 30 million people to park their cars and take the bus for a week, they'd just raise the price further to cover the decrease in demand.



Must be nice to be in an unregulated industry that has customers who will pay no matter what the price.



Kev

 

[BigCarl64]

Yep, it’s the consumption of the fuel that matters, not what day you buy it. If everyone could find a way to consume less fuel, then the price would go down. But that’s unlikely to happen. It will only occur if forced on the public by law or the price gets to the economic “point of diminishing returns”.

 

[RustyJC]

Crude oil, heating oil, unleaded gasoline, natural gas, etc. are commodities traded on the New York Merchantile Exchange (NYMEX). Anyone familiar with commodities markets should have a pretty good idea how prices are established in market trading. If you want to take a look at wholesale market prices, see HERE.



Rusty

 

[DOWG]

Diesel prices may seem high compared with a few months ago, but look back several years, and compare like with like. The Dallas Fed estimates that if we adjust for inflation, crude prices would have to rise to $75-$80 per barrel to get where we were in 1981, and diesel prices would have to rise to $3. 50 per gallon. So oil and gasoline prices are not devastatingly high by historical standards.

 

[Joe G.]

Gasoline prices are not the problem anyway. Diesel is the problem. Almost all the goods we use move by diesel power. If the price of diesel goes up, everything goes up. If the big rigs in this country stopped rolling for a couple of days, that would get some attention. Never happen. So we get another round of inflation.

 

[BigCarl64]

Gasoline prices are a problem and here is why. Most people’s income is fairly static month to month. Since the US is a predominantly consumption based economy, an increase in gas prices acts like an additional tax, which takes money away from buying other goods. As consumption slows, so does the economy. As the economy slows, people lose their jobs and the spiral begins. Granted, the rising price of diesel does cause most products to increase in cost due to the additional shipping costs, but this acts a catalyst to speed up the previously explained problem.

 

[Joe G.]

Gasoline is moved by diesel. An increase in the price of anything reduces the money available to buy other things no matter what the item with the price increase is. Gasoline is not alone with this problem. Increaseing the price of most things doesn't push up the price of other consumer items. Increaseing the price of diesel does.

 

[Forrest Nearing]

LMAO @ the 1 day "boycott"!!!



I fuel up every other week or so... does that mean I'm "boycotting" 90% of the time?!?!?

 

[Big_Daddy_T]

I am boycotting fuel prices. I bought two fuel meisers and parked the gas guzzlers.

 

[kstehnacs]

I stand corrected, should have thought about it before I posted. Just for the record, I didn't do the initial calculations.

 

[woodsrat]

boycott

think i will just keep fueling up cant seem to find a way to pull equipment behind my bicycle

 

[bmoeller]

One day boycott is a joke. Assuming I don't go anywhere other than to work and back, one fill will last me about 3 weeks.

 

[QRTRHRS]

The price may keep rising but in my area of operation, I don't see any change in behavior or any lessening of the volumn of traffic. If anything, people are becoming more brazen than ever when it comes to aggressive and idiotic driving. Therefore, I see no need for any boycott which would only result in some people being hurt.

 

[schu777]

Saw a headline in the Omaha Paper today - saying people are not getting rid of the SUV's and pickups due to the higher price in fuel.



If people wanted to save fuel, they would quit doing the jack-rabbit starts and driving like crazy. In the last few days I've noticed people driving worse than before... maybe it's the thought of summer months coming up?



For the boycott to work, it would have to last 2-3 weeks LONG! Then you think about all the people that make a living off of selling fuel and all the other goodies too. It would affect lot of other people than just the big oil companies.



Either way, I'm happy that I've got a diesel and just amazed that the price of fuel (Gretna, NE Flying J - 05/19) is $1. 65 compared to $1. 94 to $1. 99 for Gas in the Omaha area. That truck is starting to pay for itself compared to a gas engine.



Michael

 

[MrWinkey]

Your lucky... ... Around here Diesel is same or more than reuglar. Dont know how that works but it's a crock.....

 

[ndurbin]

Diesel around here seems to stay fairly steady. It isn't prone to the spikes like gas is. Right now gas is about $1. 95 to $2. 00, whereas diesel last I checked was $1. 75.



Now if I venture down towards Wichita diesel is about $1. 85-$1. 90 and gas is over $2. 00. But it's been about a week since I was down that way.