Gas Out!!!!!

[mikesduster]

Gas--Very Important!!!

Put it on your calendar! Fill up on the 6th of September, 2005, and NO GAS on September 7th, 8th, or 9th, 2005!!!

TIRED OF THE GAS PRICES???? Let's all stand up and make a statement . . . WE WON'T PAY THESE PRICES!!!!! Please fill up on the 6th of September, 2005 and don't buy any gas on the 7th, 8th or 9th. Have a great week!

Years back on April 30, 1999, a gas-out was staged across Canada and the U.S. to bring the price of gas down, and it worked! It's time to do something again!!! Only this time, let's make it for three days instead of just one!!! The so-called oil cartel decided to slow production to drive up gasoline prices. Let's see how many Canadian/American people we can get to band together for a three-day period in September, NOT TO BUY ANY GASOLINE, during those three days. LET'S HAVE A GAS-OUT--September 7, 2005, to September 9, 2005. Buy what you need before these dates--or after--but NONE during this time period. If you want to help, just send this to everyone you know and ask them to do the same. We brought the prices down once before, and we can do it again! Come on, North America! Let's stand together to make a difference!

Even if you receive this 100 times, keep passing it around. This way you know everyone is being informed and NO ONE will forget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Guitar Jones]

Dude, Kuwait has just given us $50 million in petroleum products and oil producing nations have agreed to produce more oil than is needed right now, what more could you want?

 

[mikesduster]

we ALL want it back to $1.00 a gallon!!!!

 

[Guitar Jones]

Yeah but since we are hopelessly day dreaming why not make it $0.25

 

[AdamR]

It wont work, If everyone goes and buys gas on the same night we'll run out. That will just make prices go up. people need to stop driving 50,000 miles a year. Stay home with the family for change.

 

[fostersnc]

Less driving will make a lighter demand on the supply, which will help more with dropping the price back down than not buying for a certain day or period of days. :salute:

 

[D-mailman]

I'm riding my Super Glide as much as I can. It gets about 42 mpg. Havn't driven the truck in a week. Going to ride it thru winter..I just dont buy gas as much as I did. Hope my little pro-test helps. Terry B.

 

[AdamR]

I dont think theres any chance of me not buying gas. I live 15 miles from work and I swear its up hill bolth ways ! The Jeep gets about 15 miles to the gallon. The Mirage isnt bad but the 340 will make up for it using a good amount of 110 race gas.

 

[giggy]

It wont work, If everyone goes and buys gas on the same night we'll run out. That will just make prices go up. people need to stop driving 50,000 miles a year. Stay home with the family for change.

amen brother, amen!

 

[fantom]

i read somewhere that if 50% of americans dont buy gas on a certain day it could put some oil co's into bankruptcy! its worth a shot :usa2:

 

[rumblefish360]

I'm riding my Super Glide as much as I can. It gets about 42 mpg. Havn't driven the truck in a week. Going to ride it thru winter..I just dont buy gas as much as I did. Hope my little pro-test helps. Terry B.

I ride my sporty everyday thats possible. 50 MPG's all day everyday.
The current Sportster 883 model is getting 62 as listed, a buddy confirms that.
To bad I can't leave it at the train station. It would for surley be taken.

 

[73Scamp]

other option is stop buying from a certain gas station wich will force them to lower there price then when it hits a certain point then switch to that gas station forceing another to lower there price lets try starting with either esso or chevron we have them both in the us and in canada

 

[340eh]

quote:

This year's litany of complaints about gasoline prices is a re-run of the same program from years past: Gasoline prices in the USA are too high; gasoline is a unique commodity whose price isn't subject to the usual market forces of supply and demand; OPEC and greedy American oil companies secretly manipulate the market to keep prices artificially high; and a simple boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline will rectify all
this.

Oil companies can manipulate their prices somewhat by controlling how much gasoline they produce and where they sell it, but they can't alter the basics of supply and demand: prices go down when people buy less of a good, prices go up when people buy more of a good, and prices go way up when demand outstrips available supply. The "gas out" schemes that propose to alter the demand side of the equation by shunning one or two specific brands of gasoline for a while won't work, however, because they're based on the misconception that an oil company's only outlet for gasoline is its own branded service stations. That isn't the case: gasoline is a fungible commodity, so if one oil company's product isn't being bought up in one particular market or outlet, it will simply sell its output to (or through) other outlets:
Economics Prof. Pat Welch of St. Louis University says any boycott of "bad guy" gasoline in favor of "good guy" brands would have some unintended (and unhappy) results.

. . . Welch says the law of supply and demand is set in stone. "To meet the sudden demand," he says, "the good guys would have to buy gasoline wholesale from the bad guys, who are suddenly stuck with unwanted gasoline."

So motorists would end up . . . paying more for it, because they'd be buying it at fewer stations.

And yes, oil companies do buy and sell from one another. Mike Right of AAA Missouri says, "If a company has a station that can be served more economically by a competitor's refinery, they'll do it."

Right adds, "In some cases, gasoline retailers have no refinery at all. Some convenience-store chains sell a lot of gasoline — and buy it all from somebody else's refinery."
A boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline won't result in lower overall prices. Prices at all the non-boycotted outlets would rise due to the temporarily limited supply and increased demand, making the original prices look cheap by comparison. The shunned outlets could then make a killing by offering gasoline at its "normal" (i.e., pre-boycott) price or by selling off their output to the non-boycotted companies, who will need the extra supply to meet demand. The only person who really gets hurt in this proposed scheme is the service station operator, who has almost no control over the price of gasoline.

The only practical way of reducing gasoline prices is through the straightforward means of buying less gasoline, not through a simple and painless scheme of just shifting where we buy it. The inconvenience of driving less is a hardship too many people apparently aren't willing to endure, however.

 

[73DartSport340]

lol, I most always go against the grain....Im gonna have to make sure I take ALL my cars down that day and 2 5 gallon gas cans and fill up .

 

[Cuda66]

I just cut my fuel usage by about 20%, I talked the boss into four day work week. Half the staff will take Mondays off, the other half get Fridays off.

 

[AdamR]

4 day work week ! Can I work for you ? I'm lucky to get Sunday off. However thats a real long commute and it will kinda screw up your entire gas saving idea.