may-19th

[monte_carlo97 10+ year member]

maybe I am wrong here but even if it did work, would the loss of money for the company cause them to raise prices even more to make up for their loss of money //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

Ya Prolly not a good idea. They will retalliate by making the prices even higher for longer to teach us a lesson. They can charge what they want because sooner or later we all need gas and will forced to buy it at that price.

 

[dbhittin 5,000+ posts]

Ya Prolly not a good idea. They will retalliate by making the prices even higher for longer to teach us a lesson. They can charge what they want because sooner or later we all need gas and will forced to buy it at that price.

If no one buys there gas/oil cause of high prices, they will loose money and have to lower it so they can make money agin. Thats the way i see it, but i may be wrong

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

you need gas. you're gonna HAVE to buy it. if indeed this so called day-long-boycott did work, and prices are lowered - they will slowly creep back up anyways.

sorry, but I can't support a lost cause. anyways I filled up on saturday, no need to buy until upcoming friday or saturday.

 

[monte_carlo97 10+ year member]

If no one buys there gas/oil cause of high prices, they will loose money and have to lower it so they can make money agin. Thats the way i see it, but i may be wrong

Yea but you will eventually have to buy it. Everyone needs gas. It is not like you can go without gas forever.

 

[lcpunk69 10+ year member]

The Bus!, Taxi!

 

[Casserole 10+ year member]

maybe I am wrong here but even if it did work, would the loss of money for the company cause them to raise prices even more to make up for their loss of money //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

supply & demand, if there is less demand the price will fall.
edit: just to clarify i'm saying that over time if the actual demand decreased the price would fall. since the demand remains the same, even if everyone doesnt buy gas for 1 day, the price stays the same.

 

[wErd 5,000+ posts]

if people didnt buy gas for one week then maybe something would happen,

btw, i bought 15$ in gas today. **** my nuts i dont care.

 

[Phatillusion 5,000+ posts]

I agree that one day of not buying gas will do absolutely nothing. People would have to unite together to get anything done, and I just don't see it happening in this day and age. I would suggest mass car pools or simply finding alternatives to going to work and/or just driving where it's necessary to go. Now most people wouldn't go a week without driving, but here's a little bit of history not concerning gas, but simply an effort to make a change in which many people united together and stuck with their plan.

I think it was 1955 or 1956, you are all familiar with Rosa Parks and the fact that she would not give up her seat to accomodate the whites. She was inturn arrested and jailed. This set off the black community in Montgomery Alabama, they all banned together to boycott the bus in the famous "Montgomery Bus Boycott" which lasted for 381 days.

Now that's a long time walking to work, school, etc., but that's the kind of effort (obviously not the same time frame) it would take to make these oil bullies **** it up.

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

also, the only place I've seen this message is on the internet and from people at my job (who are computer fanatics so they are always on /. reading news and stuff)