Hurting the Oil Companies, corrected version!
This Idea going around on the net not to buy gas for just one day is senseless! You will need that gas later!
What will work is NOT going anywhere for a day!
Stay home Sunday May 20th, that will SAVE MILLIONS of Gallons of gas. Making the oil companies inventory sore,bringing down the price.
If you work in retail and restaurants, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT to stay home, that's where the FAT CATS that can afford these high prices go, they don't care about us peons! WE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE SUFFERING, along with older people on fixed incomes. Go to church only,if you feel the need. STAY AT HOME with your families, like people did in the 40's thru the 60's. Try it, you may like it!
If your boss hassles you for not working, remind him of the Commandment, "Keep the Lords Day Holy".
YOU Minsters SHOULD BE Preaching this! Especially YOU CATHOLIC Priests, that USED to 'drill' that into our heads, but do to the PRESSURE of the retail industry you gave IN!!!
EVERYONE NOT USING GAS FOR ONE DAY WILL BRING DOWN THE PROFITS!!!
OK, You people headed to NASCAR Races and other sports events, try and take public transportation or car pool!
Lets pull together and HELP US ALL! Bush and Cheney are not going to help, there last job where with the Oil companies!! Congress has been bought, Neil Cavuto believes the propaganda, Bill O'Reily seems to have given up...
MAY THE HIGHER POWER OF YOUR CHOICE BLESS YOU.
My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am, Radar
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Look at www.snopes.com to ...
Look at www.snopes.com to find out what is crap and what is not.
Please.
Bad enough to receive this kind of crap via email - we don't need it here as well.
easy Samantha....didnt you ...
easy Samantha....didnt you see this was the corrected version? I still havent figured out the difference between the 2. Can anybody help me?
How bout if we just tell everyone that tomorrow is actually Wednesday, kind on like we skipped a day, but not tell the oil compaines, and maybe prices will fall. Yeah, lets do that.....
Radar, can you splain to me what part of this makes you think it would really work?
I'm in Alaska, and I can ...
I'm in Alaska, and I can tell you that the oil companies don't care if you "don't buy gas" one day. They don't care about anything other then themselves. Our governor made a proposal for a gas line, asking for bids, and the "Big Oil" companies were not happy with it. They ran ads stating they were "The best ones for the job" - and what did we say? "If you're the best, put your bid in". Right now they are claiming they won't put a bid in, but I'd like to see them try to explain it to their shareholders without saying "We didn't get it our way, that's why".
Not buying gas for one day will not make a difference. Doing it for a week might, but we all know the whole country won't do it!
the idea of hurting the ...
the idea of hurting the oil companies by not filling
up with gasoline for one day I think is ridiculous.
There are plenty of other countries out there which
would eagerly line up to buy that gasoline.
Plus, there is more than just gasoline cracked from that
barrel of oil.
Practically every part of our industrial world spins aorund
the price of a barrel of oil.
I got a text message this ...
I got a text message this morning telling me not to buy gas today, so I sent a reply saying that was the stupidest thing I ever heard.
I agree with Samantha, snopes.com ALWAYS puts this topic out there, everythime someone has tried to tell someone that not buying gas will change something. That web site is kinda like a mythbusters on-line!
If you didn't buy gas on that ONE day, how is that really going to effect anyone?? You would have just bought gas on another day, out of the same stock of gas that the station already had anyway. Stations get gas delivery (here in Texas) about once a week, so what are you hurting?? Anyway, it's good that people are trying to change something, but just going about it the wrong way.
i agree with Radar. ...
i agree with Radar. Boycott and stay home. Companies due pay attention when the whole public does not use their product. But it has to be as a whole boycott and stay home. Sadly as stated here this will not happen due to apathy by the general population, they are willing to take this abuse and love to complain about it but will not even try to do anything about this. yes other products and other countries revolve around barrels of oil but we are talking for America only. Our gas does not just come from over seas and the prices are not just controlled by over seas but also by here in America. So I still say Boycott and stay home. One day out of a year, your life, it will not hurt you, it will hurt the oil companies of America.
Hey gorilla - if you think ...
Hey gorilla - if you think staying home one day a year is going to hurt the oil companies, you should come to Alaska and get some REAL info for your brain. Most of our gas does come from overseas!! Go ahead, stay home, it will do NOTHING unless EVERYONE spends a week to a month home, and it will not hurt the oil in this country.
Again, I am in Alaska, we are trying for a gas line and dealing with the "Big Oil Companies" on a daily basis. YOU would be surprized at the tactics they use in this state to get things their way. (Need I mention Frank Murkowski, or Vic Kohring, or VECO)?
Last year we had an opportunity to vote to FORCE the oil companies to build a gas line, know what they did? Flew people in from other states to try to get the vote in their favor. Bought out representatives, and now are acting like "spoiled little children" by saying they will "take their toys elsewhere". Why are they mad? Because we told them to put in a bid, and we didn't give in to what they wanted. Now we're telling them "Fine, go play with some other country that is harder on the oil companies then we are!"
Get your facts before you think ONE DAY without buying gas will do something. It won't. They have too much money for a minor loss to matter to them! Besides, these companies are not ONLY in the USA, they are in other countries as well.
can I ax of everyone a ...
can I ax of everyone a favor. This Sunday at noon, CST, can we all go out side, start jumping up and down, and see if we can knock the earth off it's axis? I really think if everyone that reads my ax, passes it on to 12 of their closest friends, and they pass it on to 12 of their closest friends, and you get the idea. We could have everyone working together to make this happen. I'm thinking this could really hurt big oil too, but not quite sure how that would happen. Will have to wait and see the results. Remember, 12 of your closest friends, noon on May 20th CST. For the sake of getting this thing started, I will consider all of you 12 of my closest friends.
Ohhh, don't buy gas today! ...
Ohhh, don't buy gas today! oohhhh, let's scare the oil companies... oooooooooooo!
Duh.
These kinds of boycotts don't work and won't ever work. The reason? What people don't buy today will only double what they buy tomorrow.
The best way to make prices go down is by "supply & demand".. when you go get gas, get just enough to get you through the day. DO NOT fill up! Why? Because when you fill up, you are basically storing the gas for the oil companies.. in your car.. making room for more gas in the tanks in the ground at the gas station.. making room for more gas at the distribution terminal.. making more room for oil that makes gas at the refinery. IF THEY don't have all that "more room", then the oil and gas starts backing up on them and they have no choice but to lower prices to move it out so they can MAKE room for more.
THAT is an effective boycott. Unfortunately, most people don't understand "supply & demand".
what is the point of ...
what is the point of getting enough to get you through the day? So tomorrow go back and do it again?? So basically what your saying is take all week to spend the same amount in gas, rather than filling up one time?? OOhh, that sounds like it will work. The tanker trucks bring gas 1-2 times a week, not daily! It's not like they come by everyday and say ,"Oh, my! Your ground storage is full. I guess you don't need gas today! Oh, we lost so much money, from the customers not getting but $5 in gas a day, now we have to store this somewhere." That is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. It could possible work IF every gas station got daily deliveries, but they don't. Better luck next time......
@ MNolen: apparently you ...
@ MNolen: apparently you are one of those that do not understand "supply & demand".
Firstly, most gas stations do get a daily delivery. The only reason they wouldn't is if business has been slow. I know this because I'm in the business.
Secondly, what part of the scenario do you not understand? You and millions of others provide free storage (free to the oil companies) in your own tank when you fill up. Actually, since you're paying for that fill up, you're paying them to store all that gas in your tank. A fill up multiplied by thousands of cars, makes more room in the ground tanks for them to sell more gasoline to the gas station. If they didn't have all that room in the ground tanks, they wouldn't have anywhere to put gas made at the refinery and it would back up. They would have to lower prices to get all that "backup" out of the refinery so that they would have room to make more gasoline.
What part of that is so hard to understand??
When there is TOO MUCH of something, prices drop. That's the way it is, that's the way it has always been. If you don't DEMAND it, the SUPPLY can't be replenished! SUPPLY & DEMAND!