Don't pump gas on May 15th

[Fotbol]

NO GAS...On May 15th 2007
> > Body: Don't pump gas on may 15th
> > Body: ...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, all internet users are to not go to a gas station in
> > protest of high gas prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most
> > places.
> >
> > There are 73,000,000+ American members currently on the internet
> > network, and the average car takes about 30 to 50 dollars to fill up.
> >
> > If all users did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take
> > $2,292,000, 000.00 (that's almost 3 BILLION) out of the oil companies
> > 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 Middle Eastern oil industry for
> > at least one day.
> >
> > If you agree (which I cant see why you wouldn't) resend this to all your
> > contact list. With it saying, ''Don't pump gas on May 15th"
> >
> >

[Adidas410s]

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

1. There was no nationwide "gas out" in 1997. There was one in 1999, but it didn't cause gas prices to drop 30 cents per gallon overnight. In fact, it didn't cause them to drop at all. Despite the popularity of the email campaign, the event itself attracted scant participation and was completely ineffectual.

2. There are over 205 million Internet users in the United States, far more than the 73 million claimed.

3. If, say, a hundred million drivers refused en masse to fill up their tanks on May 15, the total of what they didn't spend could amount to as much as $3 billion. However, it doesn't follow that such a boycott would actually decrease oil companies' revenues by that amount, given that the average sales of gasoline across the entire U.S. is under $1 billion per day in the first place.

4. Whether the total was a half-billion, 3 billion, or 10 billion dollars, the sales missed due to a one-day consumer boycott wouldn't hurt the oil companies one bit. Think about it. Every single American who doesn't buy gas on Tuesday is still going to have to fill up their tank on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. Sales for the week would end up being perfectly normal, or very close to it. A meaningful boycott would entail participants actually consuming less fuel -- and doing so in a sustained, disciplined fashion over a period of time -- not just choosing to wait a day or two before filling up as usual.

[Snyder_TigerFan]

Wow! Why hasn't anyone thought of this before!:rolleyes:

[Fotbol]

Where's the Unity Mannnnnnnnneeeee:weeping: :bigcry:

[Adidas410s]

Where's the stupidity mannnnnnnnnnn????? Oh wait...it's from the author of this e-mail that's circulating around...:rolleyes:

[BuffyMars]

Its wishful thinking. But it would never happen.

[DU_stud04]

il pump if i need it, this wont have any effect

[carter08]

if all 73 million bought electric cars, then we would see a difference

[Adidas410s]

Originally posted by carter08
if all 73 million bought electric cars, then we would see a difference
would you really??? It would raise energy prices...and what petrochemical products are used in the creation of energy??? :thinking:

[ASUFrisbeeStud]

This doesn't work. Take an economics class. If you want to make an impact quit buying gas from Exxon or Mobile, the two largest companies. If everyone go together and quit buying from these companies they would drop prices and the rest would follow. It's a buyers market.

[Fotbol]

Originally posted by carter08
if all 73 million bought electric cars, then we would see a difference I agree with that Idea, but I'm sure you have the nay sayers say that wont work either because you electric bill would go up:D

[ASUFrisbeeStud]

Originally posted by Fotbol
I agree with that Idea, but I'm sure you have the nay sayers say that wont work either because you electric bill would go up:D

How do you generate electricity?

[Adidas410s]

Originally posted by ASUFrisbeeStud
This doesn't work. Take an economics class. If you want to make an impact quit buying gas from Exxon or Mobile, the two largest companies. If everyone go together and quit buying from these companies they would drop prices and the rest would follow. It's a buyers market.

If you stop buying from A and B and start buying from C and D...you aren't changing the market at all. Yes you are effecting the market share of each company, but the overall supply in the market would be the same as there has never been a change in demand that would warrant a change in supply.

[DU_stud04]

Originally posted by carter08
if all 73 million bought electric cars, then we would see a difference you wouldnt save any money, the battery would eventually die out...and its a very expensive battery.

[DU_stud04]

Originally posted by Adidas410s
If you stop buying from A and B and start buying from C and D...you aren't changing the market at all. Yes you are effecting the market share of each company, but the overall supply in the market would be the same as there has never been a change in demand that would warrant a change in supply. exactly why something like this will never work.

if you wanna do something ride a bike or start investing in the hydrogen line of cars. thats our future

[Old Tiger]

There is know way to effect gas prices. The rich get richer and that is all that happens.

[Adidas410s]

Originally posted by Tiger WR
There is know way to effect gas prices. The rich get richer and that is all that happens.

Wait until the price for gas takes a dive...ala late 80's, mid 90's, and many other tiems before that...and see if they're getting that much richer.

[BuffyMars]

Originally posted by carter08
if all 73 million bought electric cars, then we would see a difference

And then they would find away for us to recharge our batteries from Electric Stations much like that of a gas station that sells gas, an electric station would sell electricity.

Its a vicious cycle, the economy. There is nothing "user friendly". Everyone is out to make a buck. That is just how the world works. Its life. And life is about accepting that that is the way the world will always work.

[BILLYFRED0000]

Originally posted by Adidas410s
Wrong, wrong, wrong.

1. There was no nationwide "gas out" in 1997. There was one in 1999, but it didn't cause gas prices to drop 30 cents per gallon overnight. In fact, it didn't cause them to drop at all. Despite the popularity of the email campaign, the event itself attracted scant participation and was completely ineffectual.

2. There are over 205 million Internet users in the United States, far more than the 73 million claimed.

3. If, say, a hundred million drivers refused en masse to fill up their tanks on May 15, the total of what they didn't spend could amount to as much as $3 billion. However, it doesn't follow that such a boycott would actually decrease oil companies' revenues by that amount, given that the average sales of gasoline across the entire U.S. is under $1 billion per day in the first place.

4. Whether the total was a half-billion, 3 billion, or 10 billion dollars, the sales missed due to a one-day consumer boycott wouldn't hurt the oil companies one bit. Think about it. Every single American who doesn't buy gas on Tuesday is still going to have to fill up their tank on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. Sales for the week would end up being perfectly normal, or very close to it. A meaningful boycott would entail participants actually consuming less fuel -- and doing so in a sustained, disciplined fashion over a period of time -- not just choosing to wait a day or two before filling up as usual.

I really wonder what liberal fool really believes that stuff. For one thing prices are controlled by the world markets, which btw the liberals want out of sight for their enviromental programs and to take money from big business and put it in their pockets. But these same idiots try to convince the masses that a boycott works. A 15 day boycott might bring supplies up which could drop price at the pump a dime or so. But overall the other demands the market makes on crude have just as much or more say than gas usage. Gas prices are basically controlled by EPA rules and refinery capacity which is in short supply. If we had 3 more refineries and only 5 blends of unleaded instead of 37 prices would probably be 40 to 50 cents cheaper right now.

[Old Tiger]

Originally posted by Adidas410s
Wait until the price for gas takes a dive...ala late 80's, mid 90's, and many other tiems before that...and see if they're getting that much richer. I don't want to turn this into a political thread so I will just leave this one alone.

[Adidas410s]

Originally posted by BuffyMars
And then they would find away for us to recharge our batteries from Electric Stations much like that of a gas station that sells gas, an electric station would sell electricity.

Its a vicious cycle, the economy. There is nothing "user friendly". Everyone is out to make a buck. That is just how the world works. Its life. And life is about accepting that that is the way the world will always work.

Now you can understand why many people think they want to live in a socialist society. They want anything that they need as part of their daily life to be "fair to all" (in reality they just want fair for themselves) but they don't think through the ramifications of such a decision...

[Adidas410s]

Originally posted by BILLYFRED0000
I really wonder what liberal fool really believes that stuff. For one thing prices are controlled by the world markets, which btw the liberals want out of sight for their enviromental programs and to take money from big business and put it in their pockets. But these same idiots try to convince the masses that a boycott works. A 15 day boycott might bring supplies up which could drop price at the pump a dime or so. But overall the other demands the market makes on crude have just as much or more say than gas usage. Gas prices are basically controlled by EPA rules and refinery capacity which is in short supply. If we had 3 more refineries and only 5 blends of unleaded instead of 37 prices would probably be 40 to 50 cents cheaper right now.

:clap: :clap: :clap:

[BuffyMars]

Originally posted by BILLYFRED0000
But overall the other demands the market makes on crude have just as much or more say than gas usage.

Amen!!

People just don't understand.

[Txbroadcaster]

I am honestly tired of people that think companies such as Exxon set the price

First off

Exxon DOES NOT sale gas to consumer..they sale it to the Gas stations

THEY DONT SET THE PRICE..They sale it to the gas stations at MARKET price...Yet everyone wants to yell about Big Oil this and Big Oil that

[BuffyMars]

Originally posted by Txbroadcaster
I am honestly tired of people that think companies such as Exxon set the price

First off

Exxon DOES NOT sale gas to consumer..they sale it to the Gas stations

THEY DONT SET THE PRICE..They sale it to the gas stations at MARKET price...Yet everyone wants to yell about Big Oil this and Big Oil that

THANK YOU!!!!! Point the finger where it is due!!! :dispntd:

[Old Tiger]

Originally posted by BuffyMars
THANK YOU!!!!! Point the finger where it is due!!! :dispntd: George Bush! :rolleyes: :D :eek:

[BuffyMars]

Originally posted by Tiger WR
George Bush! :rolleyes: :D :eek:

Good grief! :hand:

[Old Tiger]

Originally posted by BuffyMars
Good grief! :hand: It's where it always points now days it seems :D

[Adidas410s]

Originally posted by Tiger WR
I don't want to turn this into a political thread so I will just leave this one alone.

and then


Originally posted by Tiger WR
George Bush! :rolleyes: :D :eek:



:thinking: :thinking: :thinking:

[Old Tiger]

Originally posted by Adidas410s
and then





:thinking: :thinking: :thinking: notice the smilies which lets you know that I am kidding. Quit being a hard ass.

[Adidas410s]

Originally posted by Tiger WR
notice the smilies which lets you know that I am kidding. Quit being a hard ass.

wah, wah, wah...quit being a donk...

[pirate4state]

Originally posted by Tiger WR
George Bush! :rolleyes: :D :eek: and there it is :clap: I knew you wouldn't let me down :thumbsup:

[Old Tiger]

Originally posted by pirate4state
and there it is :clap: I knew you wouldn't let me down :thumbsup: That doesn't beat the gross factor of T's

[pirate4state]

Originally posted by Tiger WR
That doesn't beat the gross factor of T's

*sigh* "Donny STHU!!"

[BuffyMars]

Originally posted by pirate4state
*sigh* "Donny STHU!!"

Shows how computer illiterate I am....I had to do a double take at STHU before I got it. :doh:

This is my 1st message board. :nerd:

[thatsminty]

to rebel
I will

[RMAC]

Originally posted by Tiger WR
George Bush! :rolleyes: :D :eek:

So when gas prices were high in the late 70's early 80's and Jimmy Carter - D, was president, it wasn't his fault right? Anybody that thinks that gas prices are controlled by the government, or even the gas companies; learn one word: OPEC. OPEC is the group of countries in the middle east that control about 70% of the world's oil supply . . . if they say jump, the other companies say how high. You do the math.:rolleyes:

[Adidas410s]

Originally posted by RMAC
So when gas prices were high in the late 70's early 80's and Jimmy Carter - D, was president, it wasn't his fault right? Anybody that thinks that gas prices are controlled by the government, or even the gas companies; learn one word: OPEC. OPEC is the group of countries in the middle east that control about 70% of the world's oil supply . . . if they say jump, the other companies say how high. You do the math.:rolleyes:

I've got a puppy...

http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/7995/p1012704lb7.jpg

[mistanice]

I'm moving to venezuela

Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91
Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78
Egypt Cairo $0.65
Nigeria Lagos $0.38
Venezuela Caracas $0.12 a gallon

[mistanice]

Originally posted by mistanice
I'm moving to venezuela

Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91
Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78
Egypt Cairo $0.65
Nigeria Lagos $0.38
Venezuela Caracas $0.12 a gallon

here's the whole list

Netherlands Amsterdam $6.48
Norway Oslo $6.27
Italy Milan $5.96
Denmark Copenhagen $5.93
Belgium Brussels $5.91
Sweden Stockholm $5.80
United Kingdom London $5.79
Germany Frankfurt $5.57
France Paris $5.54
Portugal Lisbon $5.35
Hungary Budapest $4.94
Luxembourg $4.82
Croatia Zagreb $4.81
Ireland Dublin $4.78
Switzerland Geneva $4.74
Spain Madrid $4.55
Japan Tokyo $4.24
Czech Republic Prague $4.19
Romania Bucharest $4.09
Andorra $4.08
Estonia Tallinn $3.62
Bulgaria Sofia $3.52
Brazil Brasilia $3.12
Cuba Havana $3.03
Taiwan Taipei $2.84
Lebanon Beirut $2.63
South Africa Johannesburg $2.62
Nicaragua Managua $2.61
Panama Panama City $2.19
Russia Moscow $2.10
Puerto Rico San Juan $1.74
Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91
Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78
Egypt Cairo $0.65
Nigeria Lagos $0.38
Venezuela Caracas $0.12

[Butkus]

Originally posted by Tiger WR
I don't want to turn this into a political thread so I will just leave this one alone. Shoot youngun u aint learned ta leave anything alone best i got it figurd.

[Adidas410s]

Originally posted by mistanice
I'm moving to venezuela

Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91
Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78
Egypt Cairo $0.65
Nigeria Lagos $0.38
Venezuela Caracas $0.12 a gallon

let me know how a 3rd world, socialist/dictator society works out for ya...

[mistanice]

Originally posted by Adidas410s
let me know how a 3rd world, socialist/dictator society works out for ya...

cant be worse than when I lived in mexico with no running water and unstable electricity.

[BILLYFRED0000]

Originally posted by mistanice
cant be worse than when I lived in mexico with no running water and unstable electricity.

Oh it can, at least the Federales where predictably corrupt.
Don't know what you are going to get in Venezuela.

[mistanice]

Originally posted by BILLYFRED0000
Oh it can, at least the Federales where predictably corrupt.
Don't know what you are going to get in Venezuela.

yeah I do, cheap gas! :eek:

[smustangs]

Originally posted by Adidas410s

4. Whether the total was a half-billion, 3 billion, or 10 billion dollars, the sales missed due to a one-day consumer boycott wouldn't hurt the oil companies one bit. Think about it. Every single American who doesn't buy gas on Tuesday is still going to have to fill up their tank on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. Sales for the week would end up being perfectly normal, or very close to it. A meaningful boycott would entail participants actually consuming less fuel -- and doing so in a sustained, disciplined fashion over a period of time -- not just choosing to wait a day or two before filling up as usual.

im glad im not the only one who thought this, this statement makes that email seem as dumb as it is

[carter08]

Originally posted by mistanice
yeah I do, cheap gas! :eek:

your car will blow up

[smustangs]

Originally posted by Txbroadcaster
I am honestly tired of people that think companies such as Exxon set the price

First off

Exxon DOES NOT sale gas to consumer..they sale it to the Gas stations

THEY DONT SET THE PRICE..They sale it to the gas stations at MARKET price...Yet everyone wants to yell about Big Oil this and Big Oil that

amen

[mistanice]

Originally posted by carter08
your car will blow up

My insurance covers it.

[Cameron Crazy]

Yeah, I do not believe that mess!

[Old Tiger]

Originally posted by RMAC
So when gas prices were high in the late 70's early 80's and Jimmy Carter - D, was president, it wasn't his fault right? Anybody that thinks that gas prices are controlled by the government, or even the gas companies; learn one word: OPEC. OPEC is the group of countries in the middle east that control about 70% of the world's oil supply . . . if they say jump, the other companies say how high. You do the math.:rolleyes: It's always the presidents fault! :D:p:rolleyes: