If We Work Together, We Can Send The Oil Companies A Message!

Oh.. I forgot

Please post in this thread if you think this is a good idea (or even if you think otherwise).

Let us know if you join the cause and will not purchase any gasonline during Labor Day Weekend!!!

Big B
CECash.com

Things like this have been tried before, and failed.

What is the difference if you fuel up before the weekend or during? They are still getting the money.

And BigB - You have never been one to save on Gasoline! Do you still have your 5.0?

With that said, I usually have to fill up on Thursdays... :-)

Somebody needs a hybrid ;)

-P

(I think gas prices will continue to go up no matter what we do. There may be occasional slumps, but either way in ten years it will be very difficult to afford driving a 'regular' vehicle.)

Ummm... it doesn't work like that.

Won't work unless you decide to sell your car Filling it up with gas before the weekend doesn't put any less $$$ in the oil company's pockets.

Plus, gas in the US is still a bargain compared to most other industrialized nations. We complain but it could be SO much worse. It's STILL not as expensive as it was in the 80's.

And it's already been thought of before - and debunked:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/nogas.asp

Sorry

Stop buying oil

Failed Before: yeah.. before the power of the Internet ...

No Sales for 4 days.. What if there were no sales on websites for (4) days?
Hell yeah we would all feel it... Hell yeah we would all be running around in a panic... hell yeah the oil companies will be the same way... scheduled deliverys wont be made, because gas stations have sold little gas and cant take a truckload... The gas companies will be in Havoc... just like any business would with no sales in 4 days.

Yes.. I still have my 380hp 5.0 !!
It gets 20mpg on the freeway because I have 5th gear overdriven 12%
and yes sharky.. I still have my (3) watercraft at the river that drink gas too
(you know damn well how much two of them driink as I have (2) 1200s now.) that is why I want gas prices to come back down ... So I can enjoy my petrol burning toys!!

Big B
CECash.com

Peaches,

A better solution is for us to switch to alcohol. It would take less than 500.00 to convert any existing cars fuel system to burn alcohol. All rubber parts would have to be replaced with silicone parts.

Alcohol will burn cleaner, and gives 100% of HP and 90% of fuel efficiency than gas.

Then we need to build an infrastructure to manufacture the alcohol.

Then we get our farmers.. who are starving for $$ to grow crops that easily convert to alcohol and we start growing our fuel...

But you see.. politicians will not vote for this.. because they are funded by the allmighty oil company $$$$$.


Big B
CECash.com

The oil companies already conditioned us to be used to the prices.

Like when gas used to be $2.
Then they shot it up to $2.50.
Then they lowered it to $2.15
Nobody complained because it wasn't $2.50

At least in Colorado, I don't think gas will ever drop below $2.00 / gal again. Why would it, when people would be happy if it dropped to $2.20.

That's my $.02

IMO It is all a ploy to raise the level of gas.

Right now everyone is complaining that gas is so expensive and the oil companies are taking too much profit. I'm willing to bet that once we hit the peak it will stay that way for several months and then all of sudden drop. Once we hit the peak and have sustained it for a period of time you'll then see a farely quick drop down 10% - 15% in prices.

This way consumers that were used to paying $3.50 or whatever, will feel like they're suddenly getting a discount and will be happy about. When in reality they just went thru a sharp price climb.

Shit man I was just typing about this topic

I think statsjunkie and psili above are trying to say the same thing and are dead on...

Big B
CECash.com

My how I miss my xl1200! It's hard to believe it's been 6 years now.
The power of the internet will not overcome the want/need for automobiles on labor day weekend! I will be tailgating at a Bucs football game from the back of my New Chevy Suburban and cooking on my propane grill. It's my way of life, and high gas prices won't stop me.

Although, if gas hits $3/gal here I am raising my prices and blaming it on the cost of gas that takes me to cash my checks at the bank!

I'm going to buy extra gasonline during Labor Day weekend

Ive taken good care of her.
122 hrs on her now.
She now has Riva Race Exhaust System which increased the power and mileage. Top end is about 60 mph, but much more power in low and midrange.

I ride a 2000 XP1200 (2seater) now.

We dont go to the river as much as we used to because of gas prices.
Also.. we almost always car pool now to and from - where before I think we used to take 3 cars for our group of 4 RiverRats.

and sharky.. try banking by net or by mail. I bank at a credit union that is about 20 miles from my house (Firemans Credit Union - my stepdad was a fireman) and I have not been there in 2 yrs. Takes time and money to go to the bank. Thats so 80s anyway.

Big B
CECash.com

you should take those three days and get your head examined.
it isn't working for shit right now.

Oil company margins are far from the biggest: why should they be expected to exercise social responsibility that - for example - drug companies are not? Come to that, what right do we have to complain about the cost of gas, so long as many of us are driving around with inefficiently designed engines, twice the size they need to be?

Rising gas prices are simply chickens coming home to roost and were it not for our support of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, they would already be much higher. As our influence in the Middle East wanes and assuming the demand from countries like China (in particular) continues to increase, gas prices aren't going anywhere except up.

More refining capacity and even government intervention are possible, although unlikely. In any case we are at the stage now such that any drop in price will be temporary. Like it or not, we are finally going to have to decide our priorities and if handing a major part of our incomes to gas stations isn't up there, we shall either have to reduce our mileage and/or switch to more economical vehicles.

I've heard much better idea ....
To start buying gas only from one company for several days . Other will start dropping down prices in order to attract customers .... then everybody start buying gas from some other company that has lower prices .... etc.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/gasout.htm

The message we need to send is to start drilling in Alaska, Colorado and New Mexico, increase the number of refineries, and restart the nuclear power programs

I said that idea was better but I didn't say it was good or smart

Just get on the right side of the pump. Instead of being the pumpee, you gotta be the pumper. LOL

Seriously, there's a ton of money being made from investing in the oil business.

Really? You think so?

The only way something like this will ever work is if it is worldwide in large scale and very well organized :/

ohh come on...thats like saying if you got you jacked you should start stealing other people...

Sometimes its not only business you know...

Exactly...as long you guys keep using your crappy V6, V8 that aren't worth shit in your bathtubs you don't have much rigth to complain

Some of you guys should check how things work in Europe...

Why do you want to give the oil company employess a 3 day weekend? Everyone should wait to get their gas until the weekend and then create gas lines around the block and make the fuckers work their asses off instead.

Uh .. yeah... that will show em !!!




What kinda logic is this?

You graduate from WhatsaMadda U?

Big B
CECash.com

PS.. Anyone want to make us work our asses off.. Send your valuable adult traffic to CECash.com sites...

BigB is a sexy sexy man.

There is a limited amount of oil in the world and it will be gone in about 50 years or so.
It's logic the prices are getting higher since oil is getting more rare everyday.

i really could care less about gas prices, i drive a car because i don't want to walk and i get 10 mpg because its hot as hell in texas and i need my ac at full blast.

Agreed there is a larger demand for oil now that the US economic policy is creating millions of jobs in China. However, the margins the US oil companies are making have sky rocketed and will continue to stay very high as long as the administrations family and friends are making huge profits from it.

Don't kid yourself. There is a higher demand for the product but the margins have gone up much more then supply and demand would warrant. Have you read the recently passed energy bill, which creates even more profit for the oil companies. Between the oil companies and the banks that will start foreclosing in vast numbers around 2008, the American people will be owned.

You can start resolving the issue next November.

Actually that is a contradiction in terms, unless of course the theory behind supply-demand economics is all wrong. And unless it reduces demand, it's actually the duty (to their shareholders) of oil companies to push prices/margins as high as they will go.

In any case you might just as well ask why we aren't performing a social service by selling porn on a sub-10% margin (which is all some industries work on). Either all the profit the market will bear is a good thing, or it isn't: you don't get to pick and choose.

We've used it all. Get used to it.

http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

A Labor Day gasoline boycott is a good idea. But it is just a start. We need a more comprehensive solution.

We need to wean ourselves off of foreign oil.

This means adding more guzzler taxes on SUVs, buying smaller cars, car pooling, better mass transport, biodiesel, hydrogen, solar panels or your house, windmills in our back yards.. whatever it takes!

This awful oil dependency is hurting our productivity, reducing our quality of life, making our country less secure, AND damaging the environment.

Oh man...
My stock of Bacardi is about to get waisted?

You got it... we need to wean ourselves off oil all together.

This won't work for various reasons, the main reason being that there are thousands of other things that require oil in one way or another. Everything from logistics to manufacturing to travel to whatever else you can think of. Think about it, we use trucks to move practically everything in this country, use ships to import and export, use planes to fly, oil is used to manufacture everything from plastic to aluminum to steel to paper. A few hundred people not filling up their tank one day won't do a damn thing. Oil is not a renewable resource, therefore there is less oil today then there was yesterday, and there will be less oil tomorrow than there is today. Therefore, oil tomorrow will be worth more than it was today and oil today is worth more than it was yesterday. Simple economics.

I made a post about this..we need to stop buying from certain companies its the only way to have an effect.. or start burning some mother fuckers down

Yeah, fuck our kids and grandkids. We will be dead anyway when they get to clean up the mess we made. They have it to easy the way it is.

You are a complete waste of carbon material and water that you are made of.

That's a fantastic idea. It's too bad that I'm going to end up spending $500+ on gas this weekend, between two V8's driving up to the lake and my jetboat running the whole time. God dammit.

This would work better ... since it's a very long term loss for the biggest compagny :

http://www.kittystrips.com/blog/?p=24

Pay $1.50 FOR GAS


EVERYWHERE?READ ALL OF IT?its not that hard guys?we have hundreds of great companies out there including BP?Shell?say goodbye 2 Exxon and Mobile

I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer. Want
gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united
action

Phillip Hollsworth, offered this good idea:

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the ?don?t buy gas on a certain day?
campaign that was going around last April or May!

The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn?t
continue to ?hurt? ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an
inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever
thought
of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.

Please read it and join with us!

By now you?re probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super
cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.75 for regular unleaded in my town.

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to
think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50-$1.75, we need
to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the
marketplace?. not sellers.

With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to
take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come
down
is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas!

And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.

How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can?t just stop buying gas. But
we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a
price war.

Here?s the idea:

For the rest of this year, DON?T purchase ANY gasoline from the two
biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not
selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they
reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.

?its not that hard guys?we have several reliable gas companies out there including BP?Shell?just say goodbye 2 Exxon and Mobile?it will work!

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and
Mobil gas buyers. It?s really simple to do!! Now, don?t whimp (sic) out
on me at this point? keep reading and I?ll explain how simple it is
to
reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it
to
at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)? and those 300 send it to at least
ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ? and so on, by the time the message
reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE
MILLION consumers!

If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends
each,
then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level
further, you guessed it?.. THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!! Again, all
you have to do is send this to 10 people and DON?T purchase ANY
gasoline
from EXXON and MOBIL. That?s all.

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten
more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could
conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! I?ll bet you didn?t
think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we
can
make a difference.

If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND
KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK

Is it a bird or a plane?

Yes, profits are at a all the time while they have more than enough oil to meet the demand..............

Actually, it would be kinda cool if we could all find a way to bring the prices down. That way we'll run out of the shit even faster and be done with it.

Stealing? Its a business like any other business. Its a high risk business.

If any companies are stealing its the bottled water companies that pull water out of natural springs with no risk and then sell it for $1 to $4 per gallon.

Tap water costs not even a penny a gallon.

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# Corona beer: $12.89
# Snapple: $10.32
# Tide liquid detergent: $8.39
# Coca-Cola: $2.64
# Tap water, Denver Water - .00186 cent for 11,000 gallons or less per month, including monthly service charge

Silly, silly people. It's Economics 101, people. Supply and demand and all that. You can't all drive a Ford Gargantua towing your jet skis and your dirt bikes and expect that gas will stay cheap. Let me try to simple it down to the bottom line:

GAS IS EXPENSIVE BECAUSE YOU'RE BUYING TOO MUCH OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Wanna help the price of gas go down? Most of us work at home, but how many of us consolidate our "errands" into one day a week in an organized route to optimize gas usage? If you don't work at home, how many times a week do to you take something other than your car to work? On the weekends, how often do you stay local and ride your bike or walk to a restaurant or wherever you want to go out?

Most likely you're a typical American who loads up the Escalade to drive down to the corner store to buy some smokes. Who gasses up all their toys and the big car and drives more than an hour away every weekend. Who can't be bothered to figure out a carpool or how public transportation works because it's inconvenient.

You want to make a difference? Change starts at home. We drive our car 2x a week on average. My husband and I bought a house in a specific location so that he could use public transportation to get to work and save us gas, wear and tear and parking fees. The changes seem strange and difficult at first, but once it becomes a habit it's easy. Gas could be $10 a gallon and it wouldn't affect our day to day lives much. Would make it tougher to go on vacation, but day to day things wouldn't change.